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To build my electronics lab up from first principles, I decided to tackle building a reflow oven first.

A prototype development board for the RP2040 ARM Cortex-M0+ Microcontroller from Raspberry Pi.

I regularly use Windows’ Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to connect from a non-Windows client to a Windows host machine (e.g., from my MacBook Pro to my CAD/Gaming Desktop Tower PC) to access software otherwise not available on Linux or macOS (mostly CAD/eC…

How are you transferring files to remote servers, only accessible via SSH?

The KiCad Tools is a toolsuite that assists with part management in KiCad 9 or higher.

A development and prototype board designed around the STM32C071 ARM Cortex-M0+ from ST Microelectronics.

uv is a package manager for Python that’s been gaining some traction for the past year or so.

A proof-of-concept for creating a set of native applications to improve the user experience.

Gerrit is a code hosting system similar to GitLab or GitHub, focusing on a better review experience rather than integrating with every other service on the planet and neglecting the core experience of their product.

While browsing reddit I’ve came across “JetBrains Mono”, the “new” programming font from JetBrains.

With Sync-Plus for @magenta.de/@t-online.de email accounts, you can set up synchronization of your emails, contacts, and calendars so that they are always up to date on your smartphone, tablet, and the web.

This is an amendment to one of my previous posts which was building a small Makefile for simple C projects.

As a technical lead on the Porsche Motorsport Hub project, I lead a team of engineers to build the premier location for everything Motorsport at Porsche.

Many terms we use everyday were once brand names, but since have become generic terms we’re now using to refer to the category of products in general.

Yesterday I wrote about the terrible quality of the default pseudo random number generators in the C++ standard library.

The goal of the C++ tour project was to create a new way of teaching C++.

tl;dr: Do not use <random>’s generators.

The following is a list of architectures where certain instruction sets have been introduced first.

On Windows, debugger symbols aren’t stored side-by-side with the executable data in the same file.

The following tweet sparked my interest to investigate further into the different ways of mapping and unmapping memory on Windows, and trying to find the “best” way:

I’m proud to officially announce the C++ Tour.

Update 1: Visual Studio 2017 works.

If you want to color the output of your terminal program in Windows, you might’ve noticed, that running it from different shells reacts differently. cmd.exe does not recognize the ANSI escape sequences to change the foreground/background color, while bash…

Using #ifdef’s to configure different conditional compilations is very error prone.

This is the first piece of a series of posts describing a few, very easily solvable, shortcomings of the C language.

Dragons & Diamonds is a mobile RPG game developed by Voony Games & Kiloo.

Camparound is a new app to digitally plan your next camping trip in a smart, fast and convenient way.

Did you know, that Intel has a naming scheme for their SIMD instructions?

GDB on macOS can’t display a few of the segment registers, which results in that the respective variables are not available for use.

Makefiles are flexible in many ways, it’s a small language in itself.

As some of you might already know through my Twitter, I’m currently attempting to build an advanced standard library for C, with similar performance and usage characteristics as C++’s STL.

Update: Now also supports C++, see the Github repository) for the updated file.

I’ve recently started working on a little side project, involving Gameboy development.

I’ve recently been reminded of a tool called Archey, it’s used to display system specs in a delightful manner.

I’ve noticed my Vim got horribly slow once I had multiple panes in tmux open.

Built the first fully cross-platform CLI client for the tl;dr pages project.

GUESS, together with Martian Watches, released a smartwatch.

This page lists all my recent talks and links to the slides and recording: Table of Contents emBO++ 2019 C++ On Sea 2019 Meeting C++ 2018 CppCon 2018 Meeting C++ 2017 emBO++ 2019 Refactor C++ Using LibTooling Slides Video C++ On Sea 2019 Building a C++ Re…

Whitesonic was a start-up company spun out from the RWTH Achen university to develop an ultrasound scanner for dentists.

Arvid Gerstmann is a software engineer, entrepreneur, manager, and occasional speaker.

I’ve resurrected my blog, and put my .io domain to a good use, and set-up a ghost blog.