macOS Weather widget reborn

Ever since using Mac OS X for the first time, I’ve been a sucker for the Dashboard: pressing F4 on any Mac has become muscle memory over the last 14 years. Somewhere in the recent past Mac OS X was renamed to macOS and the F4 key was given a different function: Launchpad. And instead of Dashboard, we’re supposed to use Notifications… So Apple’s love for the Dashboard and its widgets had faded. But not mine! I’ve always tried to reprogram the F4 key to show the Dash anyhow. ...

May 17, 2020 · 1 min · 189 words

Pixiecore & waitron

A “small journey” into getting Google’s pixiecore to work with an API-server named waitron. ...

December 1, 2018 · 7 min · 1376 words

Server provisioning at Spindle

Previously published on the devhouse Spindle weblog, June 1st 2017. ...

August 26, 2017 · 5 min · 949 words

Workshop: Python en Django in Docker

A manual (in Dutch) written for the local Docker Grunn Meetup, to become familiar with Docker & docker-compose, by setting up a small Python / Django app. ...

May 24, 2016 · 4 min · 781 words

Hands-on: WordPress en MySQL op Docker

A manual (in Dutch) written for the local Docker Grunn Meetup, to become familiar with Docker & Compose by setting up a WordPress-blog. ...

May 23, 2015 · 6 min · 1253 words

Apple - Gramps Added to the Family

“Our” Apple-family welcomed a rather old guy this weekend, a Power Macintosh G4, the one with AGP and gigabit ethernet. Thanks to EveryMac for pointing me how to differentiate between models. ...

June 28, 2009 · 1 min · 123 words

IPv6 working. Now what..?

Over the last couple of weeks this blog hasn’t had a proper post. Instead it was filled by automagically created Twitter updates. In the meantime lots of things happened: too much to write down here. Instead I’ll focus on my (re-)achievements with IPv6. ...

April 21, 2009 · 2 min · 385 words

Review - Tomato Firmware for WRT54G

I could not resist my curiousity, so that is why I decided to install third-party firmware named Tomato (version 0.03.0747 to be specific) on my brand new Linksys WRT54GL v1.1 wireless LAN-router. ...

September 15, 2006 · 2 min · 407 words