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I am done with social media in general. Facebook is only usable with the genius browser plugin FBP. It is just my birthday calendar for my contacts I don’t maintain a “real” record in my phone or anywhere else. Twitter/X always only was my news feed. If you don’t like the political bias here just do not read the comments and block accounts you don’t like - so ea [...] 

Just for my own record because I always forget: If you ever need to pass any object data to a custom control, use this as the property data type: com.ibm.jscript.std.ObjectObject or com.ibm.jscript.std.ArrayObject depending on if you just need one or more objects. This is handy if you use your custom control in a repeat where the looping element is a complex object. Surprisingly [...] 

Yes, I did it again and bought a MacBook Pro with an Apple chip. This time the M4 Pro arrived at my desk. After I got my M1 Pro in 2022 (one year after its launch) for my personal belongings, I thought it might be time to upgrade my work setup and replace the 2019 Intel based 16”. This machine was a mess from the beginning. Thermal issues all the time and fans giving me headache during the d [...] 

I recently noticed another weird behaviour in Designer using the Eclipse-function to rename a Java class. When using this function, you will instantly notice another problem with the menu entries increasing every time you open it - but this is another story. tl;dr Here is a litte demo video How to reproduce To reproduce this, do the following: Create a new blank database, cre [...] 

The nomination phase is over (due Oct 31) and now people at HCL are selecting the future HCL Ambassadors for 2025 in the next month and then finally present them in December. This time I won’t be on this list, because I didn’t nominate myself for it - this is a prerequisite for it in general as it states that you want to be part of this remarkable group of people. This time I though [...] 

I am using NI products for ages and spent a lot of money. When Apple launched their new SoC, Native Instruments' products weren't compatible for quite a while. My latest finding was that I wasn't able to use certain kits from so called expansion packs in Maschine anymore. Those are using a small special version of "Battery" internally and this kept on making problems though i [...] 

Remember my last post about Domino Designer just randomly removing JAR resources from the NSF? I first thought it was something with the ODP and Git but I was wrong. It turned out that you don't even have to work with an ODP or even Git to run into this problem. The real cause of this is still unclear, I add this to the various hiccups of Domino Designer that we all got used to. The solu [...] 

One thing I recently found out is that Domino Designer respects the .gitignore of your on-disk-project (ODP). In general it’s obviously helpful that this file is respected in your local repositories and with your favourite git client. I wasn’t aware though that Domino Designer also uses this file to decide whether or not to import a resource from the ODP into the NSF. Scenario [...] 

I am not a Windows guy but I have to use it. I am using it for example on my Apple Silicon MacBook Pro which demands for the Windows 11 ARM version (the one that Parallels Desktop provides). Unfortunately I never got the 23H2 update which delivered such nice things as tabs in Explorer and - more important for me - the old taskbar behaviour regarding tab grouping and labelling. I stumbled upo [...] 

I recently used mkdocs again, the lovely documentation framework which comes with several useful plugins, nice styling and built-in PDF and static website generation. Sometimes it is a bit tricky to get everything installed on your machine to make in running, such as Python 3 and several add-ons, so you may want to run it inside a container. Although there are several tutorials about setting up [...]