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Hacker’s Digest 2023 Edition
Here are my newsworthy favourites in alphabetical order: Fiction Non-fiction
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Hacker’s Digest 2019 Edition
Here are my newsworthy favourites in alphabetical order: Fiction The Wardstone Chronicles Series (Joseph Delaney) Cormoran Strike Series (Robert Galbraith) Simulacron-3 (Daniel F. Galouye) Change Agent (Daniel Suarez) Underland Chronicles Series (Suzanne Collins) Book recommendations by other readers: Dune Series (Frank Herbert) Die Abschaffung der Arten (Dietmar Dath) Revelation Space Series (Alastair Reynolds) Ranger’s Apprentice…
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Your First Steps with WebExtensions
We’ll program an extension for Chrome and Firefox. Create a folder and name it e.g. mywebex and a subfolder icons Save an icon named icon-48.png to the subfolder (48×48 pixels, png) Open Chrome and press Ctrl+Shift+I to open the builtin editor +Add folder to workspace (your folder) and allow the access Create a new file…
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Hacker’s Digest 2018 Edition
Here are my newsworthy favourites in alphabetical order: Fiction Artemis / The Martian (Andy Weir) Die Henkerin / Die Tränen der Henkerin (Sabine Martin) Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card) Origin (Dan Brown) Tales of Pirx the Pilot (Stanisław Lem) The Power (Naomi Alderman) ZERO – Sie wissen, was du tust (Marc Elsberg) Book recommendations by…
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Old School Gaming
Take an Andorid tablet, the NESDroid, some NES30 game controllers, feed them some ROMs and use a Samsung AllShare Cast Dongle to connect everything to the beamer – you’re ready for retrogaming!
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Hacker’s Digest 2017 Edition
Here are my newsworthy favourites in alphabetical order: Fiction A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman Bel Canto by Ann Patchett The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke The Futurological Congress by Stanisław Lem Three Men in a Boat by Jerome Klapka Jerome Book recommendations by other readers: Tales of Pirx the Pilot by…
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Share Your Tools
Show me yours and I’ll show you mine! Do you have tools you can not live without? We talked about free visualization … Gephi (graph viz platform) GNU Octave (scientific programming language) Processing (language for visual arts) VisIt (visualization, animation and analysis) … and live music manipulation tools: JACK (audio connection kit) Pure Data (visual…
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Learn Version Control with Git
If you’ll ever attend a hackathon, hack day, hackfest or codefest sooner or later you’ll have to deal with Git – a free version control system for coders / hackers. Then this hands-on session (33c3 / CoSin) is for you! We’ll install Git, open your account at GitHub, create a new repository and start committing code…
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Hacker’s Digest – Don’t Panic
Ich lese viel und gerne… Hier präsentiere ich einige meiner aktuellen Favoriten in alphabetischer Reihenfolge – und bin gespannt auf Tipps und Kommentare von euch! Romane Accelerando (Charles Stross) Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky) Homo Faber (Max Frisch) Millennium (series) (Stieg Larsson & David Lagercrantz) Off to Be the Wizard (Scott Meyer) Ready Player One &…