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  Location: Vienna, Austria, EU/Europe
  Remote: Yes (open for hybrid in Vienna)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Elixir, Phoenix, Swift, AppKit, UIKit, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Postgres, SQL, Linux, Shell/Bash
  Résumé/CV: https://www.markusbodner.com/resume-markus-bodner-en.pdf
  Email: [email protected]

Spent the past 9 years building my own apps and web-services handling every necessary part of the stack and company. As it is often the case not every such attempt always works so now I am back to looking for a job.

I can pick up new things quickly. That was a requirement for the past few years. And I probably enjoy hunting down a bug too much here and there.

Preferably looking for a part time (30h/week) position.

https://markusbodner.com (CV clickable: https://www.markusbodner.com/resume-markus-bodner-en.pdf)

Check out https://rssmailer.app

To reduce confusion more: The QR scanner only works on the camera accessed via the lock screen, but not from the actual "Camera.app"

Apple is using just a bog standard <video>-tag, so this should be a general plea to browser vendors (including Apple/Safari) to add that functionality.

Aside from a plane dropping out of the sky onto the direct road ahead, would a sufficiently well implemented self driving car ever end up in such a scenario?

The most basic rule of driving is to adjust your distance & speed to the surroundings/conditions. You should always be able to come to a complete stop without hitting anything. Obviously we humans suck at taking everything into account, but would the same hold true for self driving cars?

Reading this makes me happy as I'm currently working on a service [0] (not available yet) to allow sites to do this. The goal is to facilitate and make ad selling/scheduling easy while having websites/etc. serve the ads themselves, ensuring no tracking (by my service) is possible.

A lot of people are already doing direct sales via mail and then work out a way to get paid somehow, which can be cumbersome. Hoping to make that easier, while also improving the bad, intrusive behaviour around ads.

[0] https://www.adsfromsource.com

I have a feeling the reason why most companies just went with the clickwrap consent is because there isn't really an alternative right now. And it was the path of least resistance ('just add this popup and you're good') to 'conform' with GDPR.

I'm about to have skin in the game as I'm working on an alternative (https://www.adsfromsource.com). Goal is to make advertising more respectful, both in regards to data privacy and in disallowing abusive/misdirecting/etc. ads.

Needed a way to keep track of TV shows I watch and when see when episodes air. All existing sites I found were so messy and bloated with stuff I don't really care about.

Wanted to have a list of new episodes and a heads up about the next few days whats coming up so https://boldshows.com was born.

Thanks! showRSS seems to link to torrents though, something which I don't want any part of (piracy).

I've wanted a simple site to keep track of the TV shows I watch without any fuss. Just a list of (new) episodes. So I made it.

https://boldshows.com

I've put it online a few days ago but didn't do any 'launch' yet and I don't have the payment process implemented yet so feel free to use it for free until I get that done.

Working on an update for Claire Budget[1] a personal budget tracking app for iPhones. Update is going to bring goals to plan for the future and option to schedule recurring transactions.

[1] https://budgetwithclaire.com

Not a destop app but if anyone wants to track their budget on an iPhone I made https://budgetwithclaire.com

Have a look at the video in this article[1]. Not everyone can get vaccinated (for example, doing so would kill them due to allergies/born with some form of deficit or weak/missing immune system). These people rely on herd immunity.

[1] http://www.forjudeforeveryone.com/2017/02/22/how-herd-immuni...

I feel like everything Elon Musk undertakes with his companies is just one huge Mars Beta Test.

  - SpaceX:
      Obvious, got to get to space somehow  
  - Tesla:
      Build cars/machines to run on something
      that is guaranteed to exist on Mars (the sun) vs. Oil  
  - Gigafactory:
      How to build batteries 101  
  - Solar roof:
      While Earths environment may not be as
      harsh as Mars you still learn something, and improve
      solar panel production in the process  
  - Boring:
      May not make too much sense on Earth with  
      existing infrastructure, but undereart..undermars?
      transportation is protected from the environment/sand
      stroms/whathaveyou.

I also don't know about the mineral composition of Mars and what boring does to the usability of those, but this may be a 2 birds one stone: Bore underground network and get required materials to build out mars base.

How to go to Mars and stay there:

  1. Figure out what you need
  2. Build it
  3. ???
  4. Mars

Where 3. is use it, refine it, perfect it, like landing a rocket on a automated barge in the middle of the sea.

Or he just hates LA traffic.

Egg Inventory - a record keeping software for poultry layer farmers: https://egginventory.com

It allows farmers to record daily production of their chickens, manage orders and customers and view available inventory/stock at any time.

Same in Austria, even accessible through web at http://teletext.orf.at/

No, I didn't implement any analytics/tracking of that kind since I just wanted to game be out and playable. Maybe a future version.

But I know for certain that there has been at least one person who managed to finish all 37 rounds (that includes the two bonus rounds) with the one heart modifier active. Which is impressive. If you don't know that modifier reduces your lives to 1, so one wrong guess and game over.

When did you figure it out? The feature was only introduced in iOS7 two years ago almost do the day.

There was a Penny Arcade[0] article a year ago talking about the drawing lag. I suppose Microsoft spent/spending quite a significant amount on the implementation.

[0] http://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2014/06/16/surface-pro...

Fair enough, that was me extrapolating from the experience I had so far. I didn't dream to turn on the new iCloud Photo Library so far to see that it'd turn off the iCloud backup part.

1000 Photos might not be 5GB but still every picture gets uploaded, just older ones disregarded once new ones arrive. Now if someone comes home after a day out with a 100 new pictures this puts some stress on your network once while it is updating photo stream (if not done over mobile data) and backing up.

Where some stress is: Complete congestion of the network since 100% of upload is used and at ~50KB/s speed around these parts it'll take forever to even sync 100 Pictures at 1.5-3MB each.

Every once in a while I'm troubleshooting why connection is slow again. With pings to google reaching 7-8 seconds. The offender was always an iOS device declaring itself king of the network. Finding the culprit is fun at times since some syncs stop once the device becomes active (e.g. iCloud backup, but not always).

Worst of all it's easy for redundant syncs to happen. "iCloud backup" on default config backs up the entire device, including your Camera Roll. "My Photo Stream" also uploads every picture as well as "iCloud Photo Library". This turns 5GB of pictures into 15GB. (Edit: wrong info see post below)

The most fun I've had a few days ago with "WhatsApp". They introduced their own backup capability via "iCloud Drive" which also doubles their backup requirements if not configured properly. Default iCloud backup already backs up all of WhatsApp. WhatsApp's iCloud Drive backup then saves everything again. In my case WhatsApp backup got stuck and was indefinitely uploading the same file. Turning backup off in WhatsApp-settings did nothing. I had to rip out iCloud Drive access for the app to make it stop.

This was on my sisters device. Given that WhatsApp is heavily used for image sharing as well this meant that WhatsApp was (trying to) backup 2*2GB of data. Not possible at 52KB/s upload speed.

Bonus points: WhatsApp also saves all images to the Camera Roll so the image gets backed up once more.

Fun times.

They/Schrems have been at it for a while now. They initially tried to go through the Irish DPC (Data Protection Commissioner)[1] but that wasn't very fruitful. In 2013 they issued complaints in 3 different countries. Again no outcome[2] (see 'reactions'). Now they're at this lawsuit[3] regarding the following violations:

   - Data use policy which is invalid under EU law
   - The absence of effective consent to many types of data use
   - Support of the NSA’s ‘PRISM’ surveillance programme
   - Tracking of Internet users on external websites (e.g. through ‘Like buttons’)
   - Monitoring and analysis of users through ‘big data’ systems
   - Unlawful introduction of ‘Graph Search’
   - Unauthorised passing on of user data to external applications

Some more information about the suit can be found here https://www.fbclaim.com/ui/page/faqs

[1] http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Complaints/complaints.ht...

[2] http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Complaints/PRISM/prism.h...

[3] http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Complaints/Class_Action/...

As does plain Google Chrome, at least on OSX. Open Dev Tools and click the 2nd icon on top, next to the loupe, which looks like a mobile phone. From there you can specify a set of throttling speeds (offline, gprs, edge, 3G, DSL, Wifi)

I wonder how long it'll take for the general public to actually recognise those as valid things they can type into their browser.

There was a sports event on TV recently and you could see a billboard ad in the background for a while with <location>.travel as main focus/ text on it, can't remember the exact one.

I asked my sister - who is fairly adept in basic pc use - if she knew that this was a URL. She didn't and replied "without .at? or .com? That's confusing."