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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. ...

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

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

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. ...

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

“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. ...

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. ...

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. ...