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After downloading the firmware update I was finally able to fly the AR-Drone for the first time in our office: Without watching the tutorials first. :)

This made the whole operation even more exciting. The video was shot with an iPhone and edited by Sebastian Müller, one of my fellow hackers. Thank you!

25 August 2010 • ar-drone

10-15 cm of snow in Hamburg…again.

10-15 cm of snow in Hamburg…again.

6 March 2010 • winter hamburg

My first #WOD in 2010

Warmup

Rowing, Squats, Pushups, Situps, Pullups

Skill

Squat Cleans

Squat Snatches

WOD

7 rounds for time:

  • 7 Squad Cleans
  • 7 GHD Situps
  • 7 Box-Jumps

After-WOD

Ring Dips 5-5-5-5-5

1 January 2010 • crossfit wod

freiheit.com Christmas Party 2009

22 December 2009 • christmas 2009

If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.

— Alan Kay

3 December 2009 • wisdom java programming

In practice, nothing works. There are all these beautiful abstractions that are backed by shit. The implementations of libraries that look like they could be beautiful are shit.

— Brad Fitzpatrick (taken from “Coders at work”)

10 November 2009 • wisdom programming

Prof. Uli Hoffmann gave a HackerTalk at freiheit.com and introduced us to the programming language FORTH, which is completely stack-based: Push something onto the stack and call a function (a Forth word). FORTH has not so many open-source libraries. This is cool, so you have to write your own stuff and you known that everything works fine. :)

Prof. Uli Hoffmann gave a HackerTalk at freiheit.com and introduced us to the programming language FORTH, which is completely stack-based: Push something onto the stack and call a function (a Forth word). FORTH has not so many open-source libraries. This is cool, so you have to write your own stuff and you known that everything works fine. :)

10 November 2009 • forth hacking

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make
it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way
is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

— C.A.R. Hoare

4 October 2009 • software design wisdom

Low-Temperature Cooking: The Perfect Steak

This is a photo documentation of one of my low-temperature cooking experiments based on a recipe from Heston Blumenthals book “In Search of Perfection”. Basically you put a well-aged two-bone forerib of beef about 30 hours at exactly 50 degrees celsius into an oven. But first you need to brown the outside as quickly as possible using a blowtorch to create the maillard reaction. At the lower temperature muscle proteins contract and squeeze out water far more slowly. In addition to that, the beef is tenderised by enzymes that weaken or break-down collagen and other proteins. The result is the tenderest, tastiest meat imaginable.

4 October 2009 • hacking thermochemical joy cooking

Sebastian, preparing his fantastic Richmond Gimlets. We had a BBQ with a group of customers after a long project phase. Sebastian is not only an experienced computer programmer, but he also knows how to “hack” Food and Drinks. :)

Sebastian, preparing his fantastic Richmond Gimlets. We had a BBQ with a group of customers after a long project phase. Sebastian is not only an experienced computer programmer, but he also knows how to “hack” Food and Drinks. :)

30 September 2009 • m9 leica