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Pages on saoe: The Nifty Oddity https://www.saoe.net/page/ Recent content in Pages on saoe: The Nifty Oddity Hugo en-us info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) © 2013-2026 Sascha Offe Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 History https://www.saoe.net/page/history/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:37:45 +0200info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) https://www.saoe.net/page/history/ <p>A brief history of this site and the notable changes during that time to its (infra)structure.</p> Search https://www.saoe.net/search/ Thu, 06 Jan 2022 00:53:31 +0100info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) https://www.saoe.net/search/ <form id="custom-search" name="custom-search" method="post" action="" onsubmit="customSearchResults(); return false;"> <p> <input id="custom-search-field" type="text" name="search" value="" title="Search String" placeholder="🔍︎ Enter search terms…"> </p> <p> <input type="radio" name="option" value="EXACT" checked="checked"><b>Exact Phrase</b> (but case <u>in</u>sensitive)<br> <input type="radio" name="option" value="AND"><b>AND</b> combination<br> <input type="radio" name="option" value="OR"><b>OR</b> combination </p> </form> <div id="custom-search-results"></div> <script> let params = { json_src : '/index.json', minlength : 3, defaultsearch : 'EXACT', sort_date : 'DESC', autocomplete : 1, section_search : 0, badwords : 'und,oder,aber,wenn,also,der,die,das,den,dem,des,ein,eines,einer,and,or,but,the,a,an', json_wait : '<p><em>Please wait, the search is loading...</em></p>', json_ready : '', extern_icon : ' (external link)', err_badstring : '<p>The search term is too short!</p>', err_noresult : '<p>No search results found.</p>', err_norequest : '<p style="text-align: center; color: red;">The fulltext search is currently unavailable.</p> Programming Quotes https://www.saoe.net/page/programming-quotes/ Sun, 06 Apr 2014 16:15:23 +0000info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) https://www.saoe.net/page/programming-quotes/ <p>Quotes about programming and software development; often phrased humorous, but with a kernel of truth.</p> Software Overview https://www.saoe.net/page/software-overview/ Sat, 31 Aug 2013 20:36:48 +0000info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) https://www.saoe.net/page/software-overview/ <p>Overview (in alphabetical order) of my personal software projects (that have been published…).</p> About https://www.saoe.net/page/about/ Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:01:10 +0000info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) https://www.saoe.net/page/about/ <div style="width:20%; float:right; padding:0px;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invader_Zim" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.saoe.net/svg/invader-zim.svg" title="Not really me..." alt="Not really me..."></a> <div style="font-size:10pt; padding:10%; text-align:center; background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom right, rgb(135 19 10), rgb(0 0 0));"> <img src="https://www.saoe.net/svg/NIFTY-white.svg"><img src="https://www.saoe.net/svg/ODDITY-white.svg"> </div> </div> <h1 id="me">Me</h1> <p>Hello, I’m Sascha, a guy from Northern Germany with an interest in software programming, SciFi, music and other (geeky) topics.</p> <p>The main reasons for me to maintain this space are…</p> <ul> <li>to create a personal and shareable knowledge base; to have various notes for my own benefit in one place.</li> <li>to provide a central hub for my <a href="https://www.saoe.net/software/software">endeavors</a>.</li> <li>to train and improve my skills of writing (documentation) and other means of communication (in english).</li> <li>to function as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging" target="_blank">rubber ducking</a> device, which in turn can also help with the aspect of <em>“if you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”</em>.</li> </ul> <dl> <dt><strong>Contact:</strong></dt> <dd><img src="https://www.saoe.net/svg/mail_new.svg" class="scaleToFitToFont"> Via E-Mail: <a href="mailto:info@saoe.net"><strong><a href="mailto:info@saoe.net">info@saoe.net</a></strong></a> (in english or german, either is fine)</dd> <dt><strong>Elsewhere:</strong></dt> <dd><img class="scaleToFitToFont" src="https://www.saoe.net/svg/bitbucket.svg"> BitBucket.org: <a href="https://bitbucket.org/saoe" target="_blank">saoe</a><br> <img class="scaleToFitToFont" src="https://www.saoe.net/svg/gitlab.svg"> GitLab.com: <a href="https://gitlab.com/saoe" target="_blank">saoe</a><br> <img class="scaleToFitToFont" src="https://www.saoe.net/svg/stackoverflow.svg"> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/17589673/" target="_blank">StackOverflow.com</a></dd> </dl> <h1 id="site">Site</h1> <dl> <dt><strong>Domain Name:</strong></dt> <dd>Well, the name <em>saoe</em> is short, was available, has a nice (lowercase) look to it, and has a personal connection:<br> It’s the combination of the first and last letter of my given name and surname, respectively.<br> The only downside: It’s not really meant for pronunciation, so I prefer to use it only in written form, or alternatively will spell it out like an acronym.</dd> <dt><strong>Tech:</strong></dt> <dd>It started as a “WordPress” site in early 2013, and while I didn’t have any real issues with it, I always thought that it was overkill for the needs of my small site (database and PHP stuff).<br> Therefore I switched to a static website in early 2019 (generated with “<a href="https://gohugo.io/" target="_blank">Hugo</a>)”, and am very happy with it eversince (see the <a href="https://www.saoe.net/page/history/">history</a> page for more details).</dd> </dl> <h1 id="preferred-tools">(Preferred) Tools</h1> <h2 id="primary-platformoperating-system">Primary platform/operating system</h2> <ul> <li><img class="scaleToFitToFont" src="https://www.saoe.net/svg/windows.svg"> <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/windows/" target="_blank">Microsoft Windows</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="programming-languages">Programming Languages</h2> <ul> <li><img class="scaleToFitToFont" src="https://www.saoe.net/svg/c++.svg"> <a href="https://isocpp.org/" target="_blank">C++</a></li> <li><img class="scaleToFitToFont" src="https://www.saoe.net/svg/powershell.svg"> <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/powershell/" target="_blank">PowerShell</a></li> <li><img class="scaleToFitToFont" src="https://www.saoe.net/svg/c.svg"> <a href="https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/" target="_blank">C</a></li> <li><img class="scaleToFitToFont" src="https://www.saoe.net/svg/python.svg"> <a href="https://www.python.org/" target="_blank">Python</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="applications">Applications</h2> <p>These are the tools and utilities I currently use most often in relation to writing code/this website (there are of course more programs in use, some daily, some less frequently, but which are not specific to the before mentioned tasks):</p> Coding Style & Design Guide https://www.saoe.net/page/coding-style-and-design-guide/ Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) https://www.saoe.net/page/coding-style-and-design-guide/ <p>Collection of guidelines, advices, notes, tips and recommendations that I found over the years (in books, articles or somewhere on the internet).</p>