On my current project at work, we sometimes need to record a meeting, unfortunately the recording feature of the meeting software isn’t enable. As such I’ve written a short guide on how to use OBS Studio and thought, I’d share it on here as well. Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio was, as the name implies, […]
You Are Not Wasting Time
On the SFML Discord and forum, I get to mentor and support a lot of new beginners, often with some of their first steps in programming. It’s not uncommon that they feel like wasting their time, because they can’t figure something out and spend hours or days on it. I think every programmer, myself included, […]
How Not To Rebrand – Toggl
On the 9th of September Toggl, my then time tracking app of choice, rebranded the company structure and … the design. On that morning, I noticed that the icon of the Toggl Chrome extension suddenly had a pink background. My through was, that someone had mixed up some image formats and the pink color was […]
Eight Years on Twitter
Today I got a notification that it’s my 8 year anniversary on Twitter and it made me think back a bit when it all started and how I’ve been using the platform. It all started in 2012… I don’t particularly remember, why I created an account, most likely just trying out what everyone has been […]
How To Build a PC
I was recently asked on Twitter how to approach building a PC for the first time. What followed was a thread of Tweets with some suggestions and I thought, it might be an interesting topic to put in a blog format as well. Easy and Hard Before you start it’s important to understand, as long […]
Article on Error Handling
Yesterday, I came across this interesting article Handling errors is canceling operations. While it’s mostly focused on C++, I found most of it being generic enough, that it also fits with other languages. The most interesting section to me, was the following paragraph: Exception handling is not a tool for broadcasting information about any failure in […]
Windows Server on WD Sentinel DS6100
Recently I have acquired a WD Sentinel DS6100 server and over the 2018 Christmas holidays I’ve been playing around with it and want to share my experiences over multiple blog posts. Looking at online reviews for the WD Sentinel DS6100, it seems like this has been a lucky model, as it has lasted for over […]
Your Windows Is a Hypervisor
For the longest time I’ve either picked VirtualBox or less often VMware whenever I needed a virtual machine. Only a few months ago I learned at work that Windows 10 comes with its own Hypervisor called Hyper-V. Usually you have to enable Hyper-V, but then it’s really easy to use. As a bonus note, if […]
Fetch GitHub Pull Requests Locally
It’s by no means a secret thing and Google will be the first to tell you, but by the off chance that someone hasn’t thought about it, here’s just the command how to do it. git fetch origin pull/<id>/head:<branch> <id> refers to the pull request id on GitHub<branch> refers to a custom branch name of […]
Visual Studio Tip: Save Layouts
When working a lot with Visual Studio, you’ll run into the issue of managing your windows properly. You may spend quite some time figuring out the perfect layout, only to have Visual Studio randomly move a window around again, when you have to restart Visual Studio. Or you keep rearranging your windows depending on what […]