Home
Musings
Music
Galleries
Code
Art
Now
About

Single

20 August 2012 / #blog

18 words — 1 minutes read

BitCoin button test

Just a quick test of a BitCoin payment button

You are of course free to pay me ;)

Jens-Christian Fischer

Maker. Musician

10 September 2012 / #blog

Stuck with read-only SD card on Mac

I was trying to use my Mac to format a 16GB SD card with the unix tool ‘dd’, but I got a ‘permission denied’ error when trying to write to it - even as root (using sudo). Examining the SD card, the write lock switch was in the correct position, but the DiskUtil tool showed that the card was read only. Weird. Some trawling the Interwebs led to the usual “plz halp me - U good” crap that is all over the forums, but also this forum discussion on the Apple Support forums. ...

Jens-Christian Fischer

16 May 2012 / #blog

Rubin auf Schiene Entwicklern

Yesterday saw a lot of german speaking Rails developers receiving recruitment spam for a Rails Job in Zurich - german speaking people preferred. The “senior recruiter” had the good sense to have his job add translated to german - using a machine. Hilarity ensued. To make matters better (or worse), he sent the same offer today - and I couldn’t resist to write back to him. Please find below for posterity your amusement, our current dialogue: ...

Jens-Christian Fischer

—

BitCoin button test

Share this

Jens-Christian Fischer / Email Me

Zurich, Switzerland

© 2003 – 2022

Archives Keybase Facebook Twitter Mastodon Github Flickr LinkedIn