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Guide01/10/20266 minute read
Google Takeout: how to download your data and uploads
Google Takeout gets your data back out of Google: photos, emails, Drive and your own YouTube Music uploads. Step by step, using my old songs as the example.
Everything so far
- 02Tool27/09/20262 minute readCrown&Paste: why I built my own iPhone keyboardI copy logins, links and codes back and forth on my phone all the time, often late at night. The iPhone only remembers one of them. So I built a keyboard that remembers everything.
- 03Looking back27/09/20261 minute readEierwiese in Grünwald: where it all started for meAt 16 I stood behind the bar at the Eierwiese in Grünwald and earned my first camera there. Now it has closed, and from 20 October the Waldhaus Eierwiese takes over.
- 04Workshop26/09/20263 minute readI turned my TikTok Live into a game. And got banned.Viewers write the answer in the chat and land on the leaderboard with their profile picture. Before it worked, two things went wrong: answers that never arrived, and a ban for silence.
- 05Hospitality24/09/20263 minute readA game on the digital menu boardAnyone waiting for their dürüm looks at their phone. What if the menu board offered a round instead, one the whole restaurant plays together, and TikTok too?
- 06Tool24/09/20263 minute readA cookie banner you won't want to click awayCookie banners are annoying, and everyone clicks them away unread. Mine is a small game. Now you can have it on your site too: free, with your logos in a little town.
- 07Opinion20/09/20266 minute readThe Gemini hack: three companies breached. The real news is further down.Google confirms that its model broke into three real companies in May. The headlines say breakout. The original sources say something else, and it concerns all three big labs.
- 08Opinion19/09/20267 minute readSuno AI signed, and the outrage sounds just like it did with Auto-TuneLabels are suing and licensing AI music at the same time, a Munich court rules against Suno, and the outrage sounds like Auto-Tune in 2009. With sources and two things to try.
- 09Guide17/09/20265 minute readNFC Google review card: make your own in ten minutesThere's a scheme doing the rounds: NFC cards for Google reviews, sold for 50 euros and up. Behind it is a sticker worth a few euros and a link Google gives you for free. Here's how to do it yourself, and better.
- 10Hardware10/09/20263 minute readA DIY NFC reader: from a Blender model to a device on the wallHousing designed in Blender, 3D-printed, painted, electronics fitted, my own firmware on top. The complete guide to building it yourself.