An overview of my process of creating visualization of impromptu bike rides| k-nut — Blog
I have been tracking the rides of the Berlin Critical Mass to create small visualisations of where the route was taking people for a while now. To do so, I wrote a little script that uses the Critical Maps API and takes bi-minutely snapshots.| k-nut — Blog
I have been really enjoying protohackers recently. Protohackers feels quite similar to Advent of Code but on a less rigid schedule and with a focus on low level networking code (TCP & UDP). I have been doing the challenges with Deno and have learned a lot both about networking, binary protocols and about Deno.| k-nut — Blog
I was traveling recently and wanted to watch some videos while not overusing the shared wifi connection on the train. I had been marking my videos as to watch with the iOS/macOS app Play. Since Play has shortcuts support, I figured it should not be too hard to download the videos to my Mac. It did take me longer than I hoped but I eventually found a solution that works well enough for me. It starts with this very simple shortcut: The first steps gets the videos from Play (filtered by those th...| k-nut — Blog
I originally come from a Python background but I have been doing mostly TypeScript for the last couple of years in my day job.| k-nut — Blog
Welcome to the third edition of This Month in Open, my Berlin-focused look at the latest developments in the Open Data and Civic Tech scene.| k-nut — Blog
This is the second edition of This Month in Open in which I try to summarise interesting articles and events from the Open Data and Civic Tech scene in Germany and the world.| k-nut — Blog
At the Open Knowledge Lab Berlin we run a monthly event where we invite expert speakers to tell us about their branch of Open Data or Civic Tech. A while ago we got inspired by Berlin Hack and Tell where they started doing a news section to talk about interesting things that happened in the Open Source world since the last event. We decided to do the same for our events and call the section “This Month in Open”. I realised that instead of just sharing the news there, I could also share it...| k-nut — Blog
I participated in a range of hackathons over the last years. Just this weekend, I took part in the latest energyhack which made me realise how much my opinion of hackathons has changed. I now think that hackathons, as I have experienced them, set the wrong expectation for how software development works and miss the most fundamental point of software development: We write software to provide tools to users. In order to know what tools to build, we first need to talk to them.| k-nut — Blog
An example of using schema.org microdata to build a HTML Webcomponent for Leaflet| k-nut — Blog