Posts on Sebastian Aigner

I think I’ve finally pinpointed why it is that I have an allergic reaction when I’m confronted with a text that has me as the intended recipient, but that has been run through an LLM to change or “clean up” the wording - especially if it’s internal commun…

I like cycling.

As part of tinkering with reelchest, one of the tasks I need to tackle is thumbnail generation.

My homelab setup is a bit of a mix-and-match of whatever hardware I happen to have lying around.

This guide builds on the guide from Amarit Rathie, which has been an indispensible resource in getting me started with cross-compilation at all.

TLDR: The withTimeout function doesn’t cancel the execution of the block you pass it.

Adding more Checkvist to my life (2024-05-03) I’ve decided it’s an easy way to get a CMS-like experience for writing these small blog posts.

Today in “Idiomatic Kotlin”, we’re looking at day 4 of the Advent of Code 2020 challenges, in which we tackle a problem that feels as old as programming itself: input sanitization and validation.

This blog post accompanies a video from our YouTube series which you can find on our Kotlin YouTube channel, or watch here directly!

This blog post accompanies a video from our YouTube series which you can find on our Kotlin YouTube channel, or watch here directly!

In the first part of my blog post series about building a small clone of the classic arcade game Asteroids on top of Compose for Desktop, we saw how to implement the main game loop, as well as manage state and draw basic shapes.

A while ago, I tweeted about a small game I had created on top of Compose for Desktop: A small clone of the classic arcade game Asteroids, in which you control a space ship with your mouse, and navigate the vastness of space, avoiding and breaking asteroi…

This blog post accompanies a video from our YouTube series which you can find on our Kotlin YouTube channel, or watch here directly!

This blog post accompanies the first episode of our YouTube series “Kotlin Standard Library Safari”, which you can find on the official Kotlin YouTube channel, or watch here directly!

Together with some colleagues, I maintain a small full-stack web application called CodeQuiz, which we built during a 48-hour hackathon at JetBrains, and use at events to gamify learning about Kotlin.

This blog post accompanies a video from our YouTube series which you can find on our Kotlin YouTube channel, or watch here directly!

GitHub Pages is an easy way to host your Kotlin/JS application - and in combination with the continuous integration service GitHub Actions, you can easily set up a smooth development (and deployment!)

In my last article, I talked about “[Publishing server-side Kotlin applications built with Ktor on Heroku]({% post_url 2021-01-15-Kotlin-on-heroku %})”.

Getting an application into the hands of the first users is the best feeling.

(This post is a tutorialized version of the workarounds that I worked out together with Andrey Skladchikov in this YouTrack issue for CRKA.)

So a few days ago I published the Thermal-Kotlin library which allows use of thermal printers in conjunction with a Raspberry Pi.

After the last unsolicited update from Microsoft, the Creators Update for 2018, instead of a seamless upgrade, I was greeted by PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED AREA.

I was spending one of the recent days in the Loretta Bar here in Munich together with Alex, and we worked on a few tasks of the 2017 edition of Advent of Code.

T’was the night of the 24th of december, I was sitting together with my family at my grandparent’s house and celebrated Christmas - and the Christkind blessed me with a Fire HD 10 Tablet, freshly made by Amazon (or whoever manufactures these things).

Even though I’ve switched almost my whole office experience to paperless, my parents are still very much heavy users of the printer.

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