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While it might be a bit difficult to learn it at the beginning, there is a huge gain in reliability, privacy protection and focused writing when taking notes in Markdown. Here is why I switched.

Pyhton’s builtin help system is probably the fastest way, to quickly look up Python commands and their syntax. It works without leaving your Python environment and is fully offline available.

I strongly believe that teaching is not a unidirectional thing, but both sides, the participants and the teacher benefit from it. This is a personal comment on teaching.

I made several changes to my website to further increase the privacy protection. As a result, it runs now completely without cookies.

I’ve started a collection of various Python cheat sheets that contain some useful and commonly used commands and usage examples.

I’ve added two new tutorials in the teaching section on statistical data analysis and basic time series analysis with Python.

I’ve added a new tutorial in the teaching section on how to read and process IGOR binary files (ibw) of patch clamp recordings.

I found an online font generator to create fancy text styles, simply by using Unicode letters.

I’ve added a LaTeX guide to the General Teaching Materials in the teaching section. It serves as a Getting started with LaTeX guide and as a LaTeX glossary.

Personal opinion on how to create and maintain personal news feeds beyond the dependence on big social media and tech companies.

A list of currently freely available LaTeX editors (constantly updated).

A comparison of Markdown and LaTeX in regard of scientific writing.

A list of currently freely available Markdown editors (constantly updated).

A how-to and a list of all currently working Emojis on Jekyll built websites.

Cheat Sheet on formatted date and time strings used, e.g., in Python, C/C++ or even on Jekyll websits by using Liquid tags.

This Cheat Sheet gives an overview of Liquid syntax commands one might encounter while developing a Jekyll website.

A quick overview of available commands for creating content with the Minimal Mistakes Jekyll theme.

A list of supported programming languages for Jekyll’s syntax highlighting.

A quick guide on how to enable MathJax support in your Markdown documents.

I’ve added a LaTeX guide to the General Teaching Materials in the teaching section. It serves as a Getting started with LaTeX guide and as a LaTeX glossary.

I’ve composed a Markdown Guide for my teaching courses.

Lost&found: In the wake of the redesign of my website, I’ve rediscovered an old project from 2016, where I created imaginative sceneries by using water, oil, transparency film and a camera.

In order to follow updates of my website, I provide RSS/Atom feeds you can subscribe to.

MINIDISKO is a series of kitschy postcards, that I create from time to time. It’s a charity project, all profits will be donated to a non-profit, charitable organization.

Weekend Stories is my on-going photographic diary project, where I collect everyday stories (mostly) occuring on the weekends.

I have designed my website. But not only that, I actually also moved the entire website to a new host: I’m running it as Jekyll wesbite hosted on GitHub now.

I’m currently transferring the content from my former website hosting service to a new one. This transfer is not yet completed (as of mid of July, 2021). Please stand-by, I give my best to finish the transfer as soon as possible.

Co-effects of the Corona lockdown: people buy like crazy toilet paper, until nothing is left anymore. This is a copycat work, the original work from David Hugendick can be found on twitter .

wuhaa! Thanks a lot to ok cool for featuring my work! Please check out their website (or flickr or instagram) to see many more cool 😎 photographers 📸

Today is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia . As a small contribution to the fight for equal rights, I’ve redesigned my “heart” graphic and I will share it on my social media accounts. Feel free to re-share it anytime.

In 2014, Google introduced its new design language Material Design . I was fascinated by its design concept:

Searching for a new desktop wallpaper, I took some photographs with colored pencils. For the first time, I worked with my little improvised studio. You can download all images as desktop-wallpapers (16:9, mid-res: ~3MB, hi-res: ~70 MB) for your personal use, they are running under Creative Common license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 .

It is done! Welcome to my new website.