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Helge Heß

@helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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ultrathink, but in RL github.com/helje5 #SwiftLang, #SwiftUI, #FOSS, #Cows, #NeXT, #Magdeburg 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@helge, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2026
Let Me In v0.1? Kate Bush on Arte.
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026
TIL: #SwiftLang strings can contain 0 bytes: "mehr\0meer"
Swift repl in a terminal showing this flow:
```
Welcome to Apple Swift version 6.3.3 (swiftlang-6.3.3.1.3 clang-2100.1.1.101).
Type :help for assistance.
  1> import Darwin
  2> let a = "hunter2\0foo"
a: String = "hunter2\0foo"
  3> print(a)
hunter2foo
  4> puts(a)
hunter2
$R0: Int32 = 10
  5>  
```
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
How earthquakes come to happen #ScienceMadeStupid
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
Seagoing mammals #ScienceMadeStupid
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
“Handmade while listening to great music” 🙃
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
#food It’s a little weird because this is with pork (Kassler) instead of chicken. We’ll see.
A picture of a Würzfleisch, some bread and Worcester sauce.
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
And this is what was built up after the reunification
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
This is what it looked like after the GDR regime took over
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
#depol This is how my hometown looked after the Nazis took over the last time.
Picture of Magdeburg in ruins after WW2
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
I made my dad a 2.5 pound Tomahawk for his 90th birthday. He actually ate 2/3 of it. Now I’m kinda worried that might have been too much. #food
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
My Friday evening activity ... #food
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Today I’m wearing my Vespa socks.
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
The Mission Control space selection F1-F4 shortcuts do not work for me in macOS 27 anymore. What am I holding wrong? #macOS
Screenshot of the a section of the settings app, w/ the Mission Control group open, showing "Switch to Desktop 1...4" being assigned to function keys.
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
Still need to refresh some spices, but declared done for now.
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
I’m reorganizing my spices drawer/place.
A wall with various drawers, some of them showing books and having spices in them
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
Sep 21st 1836, when they turned a child into a vampire …
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
If you have a public server it is spammed w/ attacks, but also with ones that seem nonsensical today. I mean does someone anywhere really leave some .env.bak open somewhere? ….
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
@gcsolaroli We’ll see 🙃 (they seem to be a little dry but good)
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
@gcsolaroli Look what arrived! Are those self-made? What's the next step? Reheat slowly in the oven? Thanks a lot! :-)
Two sealed packages of Piadina, straight from Italy.
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
We’ll see … #food
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
Prepping a quick dinner for myself. Will it work? I have a block of butter, so for sure. #food
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
Did they just steal the Always Right Institute abbreviation?
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
Just saying 🖖 #WebObjects
“The internet is going to be the most important technology transformation of the next fifteen to twenty years. We’re going to burn the boats. The future of this company is WebObjects.”
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Nicht schlecht.
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
Confit, the duck fat fried potatoes are kinda the best #food
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
Envy my Brettljausn and me! #food
Wooden plate with cheese, meat and sausages. A knife ready to cut things apart.
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
It's kinda sad, but driving to work w/ my Vespa (350 GTS) is almost *twice* as expensive as doing the same w/ the SUV-kindish super heavy Ioniq 5. The Vespa takes about 3-3.5l/100km, which is currently 7 to 8 Euros. In summer the Ioniq takes about 15kWh/100km […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Pic of a Vespa
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
People only complain about today’s Apple price increases. Ignoring that a set of products got enourmous price decreases! Like the Apple Polishing Cloth dropped from a staggering $20 to an affordable $10. I‘m personally not sure it can actually perform at that […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Picture of the Apple Polishing Cloth.
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
When I started my native #Grafana client, I didn't even know all the stuff that's possible :-) It can even do performance profiling. Pretty cool. testflight.apple.com/join/ek18ZuGH
A flame graph for profiling data as shown in the Safrana UI.Same thing as a table ...Or as a call tree.
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
Funny thing I’m working on. As usual it’s against the trend, ie not replacing PostgreSQL with SQLite but the other way around 🙃
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
When I’m searching for movies in Finder, all I get is TypeScript files. And no, I didn't try to watch them.
Picture of a Finder window, where I search for Type = Movie, and the list containing just TypeScript files. (presumably to a weird VLC registration)
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026
I've been working on my #Grafana macOS/iPadOS/iOS client for a while now. Thanks to two early testers it seems to be in a more reasonable shape now. Want to play with it? I put it on TestFlight: testflight.apple.com/join/ek18ZuGH My main use case […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Screenshot of the macOS frontend of Safrana, showing some fancy Grafana dashboard w/ fancy panels.Screenshot of Safrana on an iPhone, again w/ some Grafana panels.Grafana panels as widgets on the macOS desktopAnd yes, you can put the widgets into CarPlay! 🚗
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026
The lesser 2.3
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
The only thing I want to do is open my library ...
There is not enough disk space
to open your library.

Free up additional space on disk
“Zintenso"” to open your library.
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026
I bought myself an expensive steak, we‘ll see how it turns out … #food
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026
Hamburg in da morning …
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
In the good old days ports had proper names, like Firewire - FIRE WIRE! 400 or 800. Not "USB-C". I know, we have "Thunderbolt", but not one really understands what that even means anymore in the USB-C world (alongside DisplayPort).
Ends of FireWire 400 and 800 cables
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026
iPadOS in a picture
The iPadOS window traffic light buttons with an actual (x) button to close a sheet partially hidden behind it
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026
Safran chicken iteration 10 or so. Will be good, hard to get wrong #food
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026
#depol Ich hab in Xcode Previews mal schnell eine kurze Lagebeschreibung der Situation gebastelt.
Two charts, the first showing how democratic parties are in the minority even if the SPD and the environmentalist make the 5% edge, and another one if they don't.
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026
Today it’s meatballs for me ⭐️ #food
A pan with meatballs and another one with curly pasta
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026
#depol Es wird immer nur auf die Nazi’s geschaut, nach Prognose wählen aber auch *28%*(!!!) am anderen Rand. 69% Randwähler. Da gab es wohl ernsthafte Versäumnisse bei der Integration …
Projected chart of voter behavior in Saxony-Anhalt. W/ the Nazi’s having 41%, the commies 4% and the former East German state party taking 14%.
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026
The important thing is to use the „extra scharf“ mustard, because that’s the only mainstream one that is a little hot. #food
Dinner setup with sausages, bread and butter, mustard and beer.
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026
Testing my #Grafana “Panel Zoo”
A screenshot of an iPad app showing various Grafana panel types, including a word cloud and bubble charts.
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026
It took a *very* long time (me not Apple), but the new release of my "Past for iChat" app just passed review: apps.apple.com/us/app/past-for-icha… It's a little app to open old #iChat chat log files, you know, to dwell in the past and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
The new Past for iChat macOS app icon. It's a blue Aqua like bubble on a striped blue/white background, w/ a rewinding clock icon on top.Screenshot of the Past app, showing a finder window with a chat log preview and an open chat log with two people conversing.
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
Oh interesting, this time it's actually a #gmail issue. It also shows one unread in the Inbox but then says there are no unread when trying to mark everything as read.
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
iPadOS trying to be a real OS and … fails. Too many exes.
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026
After years of training, I can now comfortably ignore the unread count in Mail.app. No urge anymore to click it and see nothing. My newest conspiracy theory: It’s probably a clever hack by someone in the Mail.app team to bump their usage numbers. “Look […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026
No, I don’t have a memory leak, I promise. F*ck that ARC ;-)
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