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Skype problem solved

For some time I experienced problems with Skype. These problems only occurred on my iMac. Currently my iMac is running macOS Sierra. I use Skype on a daily basis to conduct standup calls ...

Convert Font Awesome to png

Font Awesome is a font set containg a large icon set containing a lot of standard icons. You can convert the icons to .png files https://github.com/Pythonity/icon-font-to-png

Install gollum on OSX El Capitan

Gollum is a simple wiki that uses git as its database. When you want to install this on OSX you can encounter some errors. In this post I describe the recipe I used to install on my OSX E...

Custom Alfred search for Jira

Recently we switched from using Bugzilla for our issue tracking to Jira. As an Alfred user I went looking for some Alfred support for Jira searches. I found a couple of workflows for this...

Using scribe to write online meeting summaries

Use case: When you are in a skype chat session for a meeting it is convenient to capture the meeting notes from the chat session. Environments as IRC have something like meeting bot to ha...

Convert Markdown to Word docx with Pandoc

If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife. Installation¶ My OS is OSX so the easiest is to use Homebrew. With homebrew¶ $ brew inst...

Creating REST services

Interesting project sandman. Sandman2 is in development https://sandman.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ https://github.com/jeffknupp/sandman https://github.com/jeffknupp/sandman2 http://www.fu...