... known as David's Neighbour, a digital native based on Koh Samui, Thailand.

• [2024-09-20] Kurzschnitte II - Pt. 7

  Welcome to Kurzschnitte II, iteration seven. The number 7 is mathematically notable as a prime followed by a cube and is a popular favorite culturally, spiritually, and in gaming, particularly in crap...

• [2024-09-20] Kurzschnitte II - 6ix

  The sixth edition of Kurzschnitte II. Did you know that six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number? Now you know.

• [2024-09-09] Stop Ubuntu from automounting external harddrives on boot

  Disable Ubuntu's automatic mounting of external drives like Seagate to prevent issues. Use gsettings commands to manage automount settings via the terminal.

• [2024-09-03] Kurzschnitte II - The fifth

  The fifth installment of Kurzschnitte II, where I'm sharing a collection of articles and tutorials that caught my attention in the past few weeks.

• [2024-08-25] Music to Program to, Part 10

  This is the online playground of Patrick Kollitsch, David's Neighbour, in Germany produced, digital native living & working on Koh Samui in Thailand.

• [2024-08-19] How to install a specific version of a program via Snap

  <p>I recently had to debug an issue with Go(lang), that I thought was connected to an update of Go. As far as I remembered there was no way to install a specific version of any Snap package, but I tho...

• [2024-08-12] How to fix ReferenceError: __dirname is not defined in ES module scope

  Replicate the missing __dirname and __filename variables from CommonJS in ES modules.

• [2024-08-04] Image creation timeouts with Gohugo v0.131.0

  <p>In Hugo v0.131.0, there&rsquo;s an exciting update: the image hashing process now uses <code>xxHash</code>, which is much speedier compared to the old MD5 hashing. It trims down those lengthy proce...

• [2024-06-17] Music to Program to (Part 9)

  A very nice song by Glass Animals from before they were TikTok famous.

• [2024-05-26] Kurzschnitte II - Number 4

  The fourth installment of Kurzschnitte II, where I'm sharing a collection of articles and tutorials that caught my attention in the past few weeks.

I am working on a project called BooKa. It's what the Germans call "eierlegende Wollmilchsau" (egg laying wool milk pork), basically a tool or service that does everything for a certain part of a business. Right now we support small and medium businesses on Koh Samui to do what they do. Be it Hotels, Resorts, Tour companies, Cafes, Restaurants, Shops. We offer online available booking systems, reporting and management of bookings and sales reporting systems. The software is proprietary at the moment, but we expect it to be open source in a while.