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2026-01-01

Unfortunately, I've yet another warning about using AI for coding purposes. AI shows me code which outright leads into undefined behavior, acting like the code is "fine for advanced use". Only as I ... (read article)

2025-11-23

Just published a fresh skippy-xd pre-release to fix SEGFAULTs for unnamed windows.

2025-10-26

Overhelming! All those tools around building software. Jenkins, Github actions, valgrind, docker, docross, qemu, and what the heck more. But unfortunately all of them waay too complex and feature-bloated for my taste. In addition, I'm absolutely NOT a fan of SaaS. But what's the alternative then? ... (read article)

2025-10-17

New CeeMiscLib release (0.0.6-85-ge3db112).

2025-07-07

New CeeMiscLib release (0.0.6).

2024-12-14

Should we really trust AI and pass NULL to stdio functions? No matter how intelligent AI might be. At times I'm pretty sure I should not follow its advice. And I hope nobody else would. Have a look what code ChatGPT did suggest me for ... (visit article)

2024-09-25

New CeeMiscLib release (0.0.5-330-g2b037a5).

2024-09-08

New CeeMiscLib release (0.0.5-306-g99d785d). Now also with an aarch64 build for raspi.

2024-08-20

New CeeMiscLib release.

2024-08-04

New CeeMiscLib alpha-release available.

2024-07-25

Welcome "Andis Toolbox". Which now is hosted to its users from here. Small subset of tools I found useful ... (Visit article)

2024-07-25

Transmitting data reliably over unreliable transport media is not impossible after all ... (Visit article)

2024-04-23

Missed a tool to analyze some DNS issues recently. For my taste, existing tools add ways too much noise to their output. Therefore I wrote an alternative that fits my needs better ... (Visit article)

2024-04-15

Some thoughts about YAGNI error handling and java vertx promises.

2024-02-11

New article "argv - The Argument Vector".

2023-01-07

New article about shell escaping and command injection.

2022-12-23

After some experimenting with OpenPGP, I'm now also reachable via my pgp key.

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