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One problem I did experience when working with markdown and github was to preview the markdown, I just produced. I must admit that I’m not too comfortable with markdown syntax. So I fail often at first (and even second and later) edit. Without being able to preview the markdown loacally, this quickly leads to lots of commits, just dealing with minor (and even still faulty) updates e.g. on the README.md file. But there are some different approaches to deal with this. A good list of alternatives is on the homepage of the Livedown editor plugin. Go for the “Alternatives” chapter.

I did decide to use Grip for the following reasons:

Yesterday I had to set up Mozilla Thunderbird, because I was setting up my new laptop, using Ubuntu 10.15 (Wili ). Besides the usual trade of setting up email accounts, I had to integrate my owncloud calendars and address book. Nothing really fancy but when reviewing the extensions I did notice that the birthdays from the owncloud address book do not show up in the thunderbird calendar. All the solutions provided by thunderbird extensions did not look appealing to me, but google turned up some description of a not so well documented owncloud feature. One more good thing about this feature is that it is not limited to thunderbird, but it’s universal.

As promised in my last post on letsencrypt I wanted to look into the problem of updating the signatures if you are running a not so standard setup.

There has been lots of announcements and previews of “letsencrypt”. Now the public beta phase of the project has begun and I want to get my hands dirty to give it a try.

Welcome. I am amazed to announce the launch of my website.

Over time I always felt the urge to share things I figure out during my geek life. I always felt uncomfortable to just fire up google, every time I had some issues to resolve and just consuming the work of others. This is the start for me to be able to share. I hope to produce some content that will be of some use to others.