Software developer

Stephan Hutecker

A place for the things I care about outside of work — travel photography, the rare plants I grow, and small tools I keep reaching for.

Recent photographs

All photographs

A shallow ceramic bowl of glossy black squid ink noodles topped with sliced spring onion, on a wooden table beside a glass of beer.

A narrow Tokyo street at night packed with people, both sides stacked with glowing vertical signs in Japanese receding into the distance.

A narrow alley of tiny bars at night, walls crowded with hand-painted signs, stickers and air conditioning units, a paper lantern glowing overhead and two figures silhouetted at the far end.

A pachinko parlour lit up at night, its facade covered floor to roof in illuminated advertising panels and a red sign in Japanese, with a crowd gathered on the street below.

From the collection

Monstera deliciosa — Swiss cheese plant. The first species written up. The collection is grouped into 3 genera: Monstera, Philodendron, Alocasia.

Tools

Network toolkitSubnet and address arithmetic, what your browser actually measured about this connection, and the exact ping, traceroute and dig command for your platform — since a browser cannot run those itself.
Image file size reducerResize and re-encode photographs to something a web page can carry, with the original and the result side by side so the trade-off is visible before you save it.
Image metadata stripperSee what your photographs are carrying — GPS coordinates, camera, date, software — and remove it. JPEG and PNG are rewritten without re-encoding, so the picture itself is untouched.

What I am reading

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2Hacker News
Reversing MikroTik's Silent Patch: The RouterOS 7.23.4 Fix They Wouldn't ExplainHacker News
The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interestingSimon Willison
Show HN: Moadim.io – A scheduler for agentsHacker News