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Wednesday, October 08, 2025

Maven deploy to Tomcat

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 So, I'm finally moving off of NetBeans and into IntelliJ IDEA .  The two main reasons for that are: NetBeans is really getting old any ...
Monday, July 14, 2025

BeyondPod Migration despite BeyondPod being gone.

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Some of you - like me - have probably relied on BeyondPod for years to get your daily dose of podcasts. It was, and arguably still is, one o...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Pocket is Dead - Long live Instapaper

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 Another of my favorite tools / apps is going... now it hit Pocket. I've written about it on this blog a bit . And quite a while ago. We...
Sunday, May 11, 2025

Set fixed IP on LibreElec on RaspBerry

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Well, go to settings ... duuuh. Yeah, alright, but what if I have to run headless, i.e. not have a monitor or TV attached. So as long as you...
Sunday, June 09, 2024

Select URLs in PuTTY

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It annoyed me for ages that you cannot just double-click on an URL in Putty to open that URL in your browser. Even selecting an URL for copy...
Friday, December 29, 2023

Jackson vs. Android package optimization

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 For some weird reason (including a 20MB text file to be precise) I wanted to turn on  shrinkResources true minifyEnabled true in my Android...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

NULL values again

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Today I learned that you essentially cannot concatenate ( concat, || ) nullable columns properly in DB2/SQL. To be honest, I should have kno...
Wednesday, December 28, 2022

OxygenOS 13 missing per-app language

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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...