Exactly, and it has always been the same. The same arguments were brought with Perl/PHP vs Java back in the 2000th and then came Booking.com (Perl) and Facebook (PHP) with millions of users 😁

I want one 🤩

Boy this FTX-1 is a brick! #hamvention

I am currently testing Allstarlink with the M1KE from SharkRF and it works pretty well. I am surprised by the quality of the audio; it sounds much better than DMR/DSTAR and the like - almost like a direct FM connection. Yesterday I was connected to DB0ZW via Allstarlink

It seems like the amazing @radiomailapp is now able to fetch Winlink mails in the background. Just got an email from SP9DLM from the largest Ham radio meeting in Poland (LOS) as an iOS notification. Very cool! 🚀

Yeah, got my Allstarlink node #65412 working on an old Raspberry Pi 3. It sits behind carrier grade NAT, so there's no way in via port forwarding but I was able to solve this by setting up a UDP proxy for port 4569 over a Wireguard VPN. socat ftw! socat -d -d -d -v -lh

Way to go!

Dem ist so krass! 🤣

I really enjoy writing small REST API's with Ruby and Sinatra. Just wrote a distributed service to purge Nginx caches based on URI matching on a Server Cluster and it's just a few lines of code and works like a charm. The worker who does the file search and deletion job is just

Es ist wirklich armselig, dass Mediamarkt im Jahr 2025 nicht in der Lage ist den Warenbestand einer Filiale abzufragen. Da ruft man extra die Hotline an, die einem versichert, dass genug Ware in allen Filialen vorhanden ist, fährt eine Stunde umsonst zum Laden, nur um zu

This weekend I did a #SOTA activation of the Wurmberg and the Brocken (10 points each) in the Harz Nationalpark. The weather was pretty bad, it rained a lot and was very cold. Nevertheless, the hikes were fun and I am happy about the two activations. #hamradio

This is getting out of control.

Organic Maps is the best OSM based offline map app for iOS and Android!

Yaesu FTX-1 Optima Head/Body Extension Cable I assembled a 6-foot extension cable assembly for the Yaesu FTX-1 Optima to test a head/body separation setup. Everything works in testing, but the BNC connectors at the Optima end need better securing as they lack locking pins. A

Had my first QSO on 2m FM in Norway with LB0WG near Trondheim after calling CQ on so many repeaters without any answer. It seems like many of the repeaters are used by only a handful of hams and no one is QRV most of the time, similar to the situation of some repeaters in

Abendprogramm 🍻

Insight from the vacation: you can have a $30.000 Italian coffee machine and still make a bad coffee.

Plan for the near future: install Arch and Omarchy from DHH on my Thinkpad 25 year anniversary edition.