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This site is dedicated to things I may find worthy to write about. There is a shift for the past years away from HCL stuff to everything else for a reason. If you find esp. XPages related content, keep in mind that it's mostly old crap.

Everything here is my own personal opinion and not necessarily associated with my employer. YMMV.

Logitech is back

Friday, February 20, 2026 at 6:28 PM UTC
I have been using Logitech products for decades. Keyboards, mice, cams. Last year I started an excursion using a mechanical keyboard, in this case a Keychron. They are neatly built but software sometimes caused confusion. I had to dump one as it was dead - very sad. I accidentally found a bargain on Amazon for the Logitech MX Keys S for Mac in white/grey for only 35 Euros - because it came as b [...] 

Vorsatz 2026Post in german language / Artikel in deutscher Sprache

Saturday, January 10, 2026 at 12:11 AM UTC
Es ist kompliziert. Über 25 Jahre habe ich mit HCL Produkten (ehem. IBM, ehem. Lotus) gearbeitet. Ich kann das auch heute noch, ich bin Experte, aber ich will es nicht mehr, jedenfalls nicht mehr primär. Ich bin offen für fast alles, was Entwicklung, Infrastruktur oder Administration betrifft - mit Ausnahme von Produkten aus dem Hause Microsoft. Die Gründe dafür sind vi [...] 

TinyMCE, the second

Thursday, November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM UTC
On our journey to update our apps to run on 14.5+ we already faced some issues with the new editor. This post is about another problem you may also run into. If you used to define the toolbar in the CKEditor according to this doc you already noticed that it's wrong: the values for the toolbarType have to be capitalized, so full has to be Full and so on, an error we had for ages. By the w [...] 

Quick Tip: get the large clock in iOS 26

Thursday, September 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM UTC
Ever wondered how to get the large clock on your lock screen with the new iOS 26? Well, I did, too - but found it! For me, in all cases my lock screens didn't offer me a resize handle or similar to customize the height of the clock, like this: The reason was the font I chose which in that screenshot is the 2nd in the list - I like the rounded edges more than the default one, but this [...] 

Quick Tip: Windows Auto Login

Friday, September 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM UTC
I am not posting a lot about tweaking Windows, so please appreciate this one  When I have to use Windows I only use it in a VM on my Mac with Parallels Desktop. These machines are just tools to develop with HCL software, so security is something I care less in this setting. I wondered if it's possible to login automatically to the Windows VM - and actually it is. Open the Registry E [...] 

Tiny editor, huge problems

Tuesday, August 19, 2025 at 7:50 AM UTC
During the transition of various apps to be fit for 14.5 we very soon encountered a problem with the newly integrated TinyMCE editor which replaces the old CKEditor for richtext controls on Xpages. To reproduce create a new XPage and paste this code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xp:view xmlns:xp="http://www.ibm.com/xsp/core">    [...] 

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