Jan-Philip Gehrcke, PhD

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recent posts

Is your software up to date? Easy and convenient security check..

Dec 2009
LaTeX Briefvorlage

Dec 2009
Fotobatch 0.5: multicore support for image resizing / bugfix

Nov 2009
Illustrated introduction to Fotobatch (tutorial)

Nov 2009
Convert all PDF files in a directory to PNG images

Oct 2009

selected thoughts

The scientific method: in normal times you don’t give a fuck about it

Apr 2020
GitHub: Y? Y!

Mar 2020
JavaScript: use the finally clause in generators with caution

Mar 2020
Time lapse video of raw photos (ffmpeg)

Feb 2020
Running an eBPF program may require lifting the kernel lockdown

Sep 2019
JavaScript in a browser: create a binary blob from a base64-encoded string, and decode it using UTF-8.

May 2015
In-memory SQLite database and Flask: a threading trap

May 2015
Sharing state in AngularJS: be aware of $watch issues and race conditions during app initialization

Nov 2014
Mojibake: Beatport’s ID3 text encoding is broken

Jul 2014
Steven D. Schafersman’s Introduction to Science

Jun 2014
Distributing a Python command line application

Feb 2014
A command line argument is raw binary data. It comes with limitations and needs interpretation.

Feb 2014
Reading files line by line in C++ using ifstream: dealing correctly with badbit, failbit, eofbit, and perror()

Jun 2011