Manuel Bauer

How to upgrade from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10

The Windows 8.1 support period will end on January 10, 2023 which means it is time to upgrade to Windows 10 as soon as possible. The upgrade from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 is quite simple, free and ca...

Use Docker with full IPv6 support

This guide shows how to use enable full IPv6 support in Docker, which provides as benefit, that the original IPv6 address of the incoming request will reach the container. This is essential when for e...

Turn off LED status lights on a Raspberry Pi

Here is a way to disable the power, activity and ethernet LEDs on a Raspberry Pi with just a few additional lines in the /boot/config.txt file. The config.txt file can be ether edited via another ...

Use and embed Google Fonts GDPR and DSGVO compliant

Currently, many websites are being warned which have directly integrated Google Fonts on their websites. In the official way, the fonts are integrated directly from the Google server, which represents...

Google Fonts DSGVO-konform einbinden

Aktuell werden viele Webseiten abgemahnt, welche direkt Google Fonts auf ihren Webseiten eingebunden haben. Beim offiziellen Weg werden die Schriftarten direkt vom Google-Server eingebunden, was einen...

Use default system fonts for web pages

Some time ago I used the font Roboto for this blog (first loaded from Google Fonts, later directly hosted). I only used this font to ensure that the posts are displayed with a nicer font than the de...

Change image creation date to last modified date

During image organisation I stumbled upon some images which had some invalid file system dates. These had a creation date which was younger than the last modified date. Maybe some backup process had o...

macOS Mojave: Reactivate font smoothing

With the update to macOS Mojave, Apple disabled the default subpixel rendering, which smoothed fonts on not so high resolution displays. Even on my 27" monitor at work with a resolution of 2560x1440 f...

Docker: Remove stopped containers and unused images

Docker version 1.25 introduced a new command to clean up stopped containers, unused images and more. With one command it is possible to reclaimed unnecessary space occupied by docker. Additional, if a...

macOS: Boot failed after update installation

My Mac refused today to boot because of this message: macOS could not be installed on your computer The path /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg appears to be missing or damaged. Quit the ins...

Cleanup disk space used by Xcode

Some commands to clean up space occupied by Xcode. In my case I cleaned up approx. 50 GB of space. Remove old simulator images Delete old iOS versions inside this folder

Time for a new blog

It's time to try something new. I replaced my old "just contact page" with a blog (and a about page). Maybe i post more stuff then 🤔 Let's see what happen :) It could easily happen that this blog w...

Game Camp 2015 in München #gcmuc

Am 06. und 07 Juni 2015 war es wieder Zeit, die Pforten der Mediadesign Hochschule (kurz MD.H) öffneten sich für das diesjährige GameCamp Munich . Samstag Nachdem das Frühstück (danke an das ...

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Hello there, I'm Manuel a software developer based in Straubing, Germany.