Stephan Avenwedde

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Stephan is a technology enthusiast who appreciates open source for the deep insight of how things work.
Stephan works as a full time support engineer in the mostly proprietary area of industrial automation software. If possible, he works on his Python-based open source projects, writing articles, or driving motorbike.

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Authored Content

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Set up a build system with CMake and VSCodium

Providing a proper CMake configuration makes it much easier for others to build, use and contribute to your project.

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Tips for formatting when printing to console from C++

Next time you struggle with console output formatting, refer to this article or the related cheat sheet.

Team checklist

Create a timer on Linux

A tutorial showing how to create a POSIX-compliant interval timer.

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Convert your Raspberry Pi into a trading bot with Pythonic

Reduce your power consumption by setting up your cryptocurrency trading bot on a Raspberry Pi.

How to turn a Raspberry Pi into an eBook server

Control your Raspberry Pi remotely with your smartphone

Control the GPIOs of your Raspberry Pi remotely with your smartphone.

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Create your own custom Raspberry Pi image

Build a Raspberry Pi image from scratch or convert your running, modified Raspberry Pi OS back to an image others can use.

Authored Comments

17 Feb 2020

How to install Vim plugins

Nice! Such an article was overdue. I'm using Vim for years now and installing plugins was like trial & error.

28 May 2019

How to write a good C main function

Thank you for this article. Whenever I start with a new C-Programm, I will read this again.