• We developers are afraid of our users

    Someone mentioned this a while ago, and although my first reaction was outright refusal, after a while I had to accept it: We developers are (or at least this one is) afraid of our users. Why do I say this? Because it’s true. I can show you at a simple...


  • Reading Steps From A Medisana ViFit Connect Pedometer

    As mentioned before, I am working on fiddling out the protocol and how-to read/write data from/to a MediSana ViFit Connect Pedometer. Today, I finally figured out how data is being retrieved. First, when you request data, you get 96 datasets back. This translates to 96 quarter hours, starting at 00:00...


  • ViFit Pedometer

    I’m currently trying to read the data from a Medisana ViFit connect via Bluetooth LE so that I don’t have to share them with a T-Mobile cloud where god-knows-what happens to it. After enabling an hcitool dump on my Android phone and running a sync from in there, I got...


  • Chemnitzer Linux Tage 2015 - Wrap-up

    Dieses Wochenende war ich auf den Chemnitzer Linux Tagen und aergere mich, dass ich jetzt 8 Jahre lang aus terminlichen Gruenden nicht kommen konnte. Ich hoffe, dass der Termin Ende Maerz beibehalten wird. Dieses Jahr war ich auf drei Vortraegen: Git Workflows im Alltag von Valentin Haenel Hier bin ich...


  • Current projects

    Some updates on what I’m currently up to (hint: it’s not no-good). I’m pretty happily active on my Tiny automated version checker for Project Zomboid, having just released v0.4.0 with a bit tweaked UI. Now that Project Zomboids Early Access Build 31 has hit the public release, I’ll need to...