IT conservations

 For some weird reason (including a 20MB text file to be precise) I wanted to turn on  shrinkResources true minifyEnabled true in my Android...

Today I learned that you essentially cannot concatenate ( concat, || ) nullable columns properly in DB2/SQL. To be honest, I should have kno...

A couple of weeks ago I got the Android 13 / OxygenOS 13 update for my OnePlus 9, looking forward to the per-app language feature from Andro...

So, Max finally did it. He found the HW to read our old floppy disks and got our 1985/86 software back and onto proper modern media ;)  And...

Not a lot happening here tech-wise these days. Except: an upcoming "archaeological" adventure. Max, my longest and dearest friend ...

So, last week I had my first (business) trip to the UK since the Kingdom in its infinite stupidity decided to leave the EU. It's been a...

Very nice read on ArsTechnica ... for people my age ;) “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C

 Got me a OnePlus 9 yesterday, which already comes with Android 11 installed. Migration of apps over there was rather smooth, many thanks ag...

 I've already shown how to create a year-month function in DB2, which - when it comes to date arithmatic - is quite straightforward, be...

I have to admit, I did not know about that: The  shell:  command can be used to open a special folder directly from the Start, Search me...