Overengineering float serialization for no good reason
When a perceived mistake in Ocean Optics calibration coefficients wasn’t worth fixing after all.
Designing a 3d-printed clasp for a sports gear bag
A quick journey to design a lightweight clasp for a "Sportsachen" bag (so it doesn't slide off the shoulders).
LLM: Write production-ready code!
A quick story about a surprising impact of a single sentence on code quality.
Accidentally solving the Swisscom 2025 security.txt challenge
Brief and very incomplete writeup about how I procrastinated for a few hours.
Failing to calibrate flame-s-vis-nir-es spectrometer
One of the many ways how not to do an absolute calibration of a fancy spectrometer, with some lessons learned.
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