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Martin Giger

Web developer, Euphonium player, travels by train

Living in Bern, CH

Birthday:

he/him

Web developer, Euphonium player, travels by train

Living in Bern, CH

Birthday:

he/him

Timeline

  • Staff Software Engineer

    ThunderbirdRemote

    Mail ClientDevelopment on various modules of the Thunderbird productivity suite

    - Now

  • Informatik-Entwicklung und Datenbankpflege historischer Dokumente

    Diplomatische Dokumente der SchweizFull stack web application development

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  • Informatik-Entwicklung und Datenbankpflege historischer Dokumente

    Diplomatische Dokumente der SchweizFull stack web application development

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  • Informatik-Entwicklung und Datenbankpflege historischer Dokumente

    Diplomatische Dokumente der SchweizFull stack web application development

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  • Software Development Engineer

    Control4 Switzerland AGBern

    Smart Home automationArchitecture and development of middleware for Neeo remote control, DevOps

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  • Programmer

    Engel & Völkers Frohnau-Köpenick GmbHRemote

    Real estate agencyFull-stack development of real estate platform

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  • Landschaftspflege

    Verein GrünwerkVarious outdoor activities in groups for nature or landscape preservation

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  • Web developer

    Inware AGZürich

    Web agencyCreating and adjusting sites based on proprietary CMS with e-commerce

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  • ETH Zürich

    Computer ScienceBachelor (incomplete)

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  • ETH Zürich

    Information Technology and Electronic EngineeringBachelor (incomplete)

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  • Allrounder Technischer Dienst

    Alterszentrum BüelSupportive activities to the custodian

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  • Intern software developer

    mcs Software AGBern

    CAM software development servicesGraphical vectorization tool of 2D blueprints for cost estimation

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  • Gymnasium Bern-Neufeld

    Physics and Applied MathematicsMatura

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  • Sekundarschule Riggisberg

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  • Primarschule Mühlethurnen

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Projects

Talks

Blog

  • Sunsetting Stream Notifier

    I have decided to halt any plans to maintain the extension and focus on other spare time open source projects instead. I should have probably made this decision about seven months ago, when Twitch integration broke, however this extension means a lot to me. It was my first browser extension that still exists and went …

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  • Sustainable smart home with the TXT

    fischertechnik launched the smart home kit last year. A very good move on a conceptual level. Smart home and IoT (internet of things) are rapidly growing technology sectors. The unique placement of the TXT allows it to be a perfect introductory platform to this world. However, the smart home platform from fischertechnik relies on a …

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  • Getting Help in Text Chat

    Developers like to help other developers. Many times via text chats like IRC, Slack, Gitter or Discord. This article is mainly aimed at developers asking for help. However it can also be applied to other situations, even if the concepts don’t fully apply. Now for the short overview for the very impatient, though especially those …

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  • Showcase all your Twitch emotes

    Emotes are a very important feature of Twitch chat culture. Because of this, there aren’t just emotes you get from subscribing to broadcasters, but also extensions like BetterTTV and FrankerFaceZ that add more emotes to be used in Twitch chat. Many broadcasters have an image in their panels showing the emotes that are available for …

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  • Definitive Bot Land Beta tier list

    Bot Land is a browser-based game that is still in development. You can learn more at https://bot.land. I streamed creating this tier list. You can watch the VOD of it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/F-PUJEErrQA Attack/Offense Vanilla Lasers Pros Blind fire Cons Countered by reflect Not a good secondary weapon Attacking Any defense that doesn’t reflect they’re …

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  • Browser Extensions should Work Together

    Most browser extensions do a thing. And they do that thing in their isolated little world. Many of them do their thing pretty well. Many of them are built to do many things. Many of them are built to do just one little thing. But only few of them talk to other extensions to do …

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  • Democratizing our Twitter Account

    In early 2016 the Swiss Mozilla Community met up to discuss goals and community structure. During a discussion on the state of our Twitter account @MozillaCH I pitched the idea of having a tool to manage content like replies with contributors instead of just people with direct access to the account.

  • Code coverage reports for WebExtensions

    It’s been quite a while since I last posted on here, and interestingly about the same topic: code coverage analysis in Firefox extensions. And since then Firefox has gotten a completely new extension system. I’ve been really busy porting my extensions and not writing blog posts. The add-on SDK conveniently came with a test runner …

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  • Checking Code Coverage of Add-on SDK Extensions

    Code coverage statistics are very useful. They tell you how much of your code never gets executed during the unit tests. So you always know what to write unit tests for, because 100% coverage doesn’t exist. And sometimes you can’t cover all code. That’s why normally you are happy, if the coverage is above a …

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  • Testing Add-on SDK Extensions on Travis CI

    Recently Mozilla restricted access to ftp.mozilla.org, instead you can download nightlies from archive.mozilla.org. Sadly this broke existing methods to download Firefox nightly for automated unit tests on Travis CI. I’ve written a node module, that takes care of downloading nightly versions of Firefox desktop and Android.

@freaktechnik@chaos.social

  • So Satisfactory is going well. I've recently added even more screw production, after the extra screws and more screws expansions were still not enough. And yes, I could tell you what every machine does in this picture.

    Screenshot from the Satisfactory game. On the left there is a train station over a lake. The right is filled with machines and conveyor belts crossing in every conceivable direction, eventually leading to the space elevator in the middle.

  • Listening to Neil's mashups with fever haziness is quite the experience. Who knows if the song is actually wonky or it's just my perception.

  • @drazraeltod the origin would still be natural then, though?

  • And on a related note, are there fossil oil reserves that can't be certified vegan because there's probably too much animal in them?

  • Okay, so there's this product that claims to be of "99.9% natural origin". That means 0.1% is synthesized from energy, right? Or maybe it's matter harvested from space?

  • It's always nice when someone else already built the thing you've been thinking about and did a way better job: travic.app/

  • It's days like today where I appreciate the high points of working in an office, but also celebrate that they can still happen in a primarily work-from-home environment.

  • The new thing in this year's Train Sim World for me: tilting trains!

    Screenshot toward the front of an ICE-T in Train Sim World in a curved track section, making it tilt

  • The spaghetti is developing well.

    Screenshot from the Satisfactory video game with lots of machines strewn over an arid landscape, all interconnected with belts and powerlines.

  • So when you swap out your main system drive and just clone it over, everything just works again. Except stupid grub that has an explicit reference to a drive (by-id!) for the suspend partition that it passes to the kernel...

  • Went to pick up a PCIe riser. Everyone in the store was getting PS5. I guess they're cheaper now that the pro is announced and people are like "sure, I'll get the old one now"?

  • So glad I remembered that PCIe risers are a thing.

  • Still looking for those SD cards... I know they're somewhere...

  • At the beginning of the week this was more a joke, but someone seriously flipped the autumn switch.

  • Not sure I'm ready for it to be Thursday already.

  • Satisfactory is out? Sleep can wait a few milestones I guess <_<

  • How is it that you can never find any microSD cards despite always ordering extras.

@djid3ot@music.humanoids.be