Victor Kropp

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2026

• Homelab Jan, 3

2025

• 2025 in Review Dec, 31
• 52 interesting things I learned in 2025 Dec, 23
• End of Social Media Dec, 19
• November Activity Challenge Nov, 30
• HHKB Nov, 6
• July Activity Challenge Jul, 31
• Two Jul, 18
• Transparency Jul, 3
• Mechanical Keyboard Vol. 2 Jun, 5
• Kotlin Blog Get Answers to Your KMP Questions Jun, 2
• KotlinConf 2025 Trip Report May, 29
• Ronnie Mar, 12
• App Defaults 2024 Jan, 7
• Ghostty terminal Jan, 6

2024

December

• 2024 in Review Dec, 31
• 52 interesting things I learned in 2024 Dec, 30
• This year first-times Dec, 28
• The Game Awards 2024 Dec, 15
• Advent of Code Day 3 Dec, 3
• Advent of Code Day 2 Dec, 2
• Advent of Code Day 1 Dec, 1

October

• Cabel Sasser at XOXO Oct, 25

September

• September 2024 Reading List Sep, 26
• Astrobot Sep, 24
• Golf and Maps Sep, 13
• August 2024 Reading List Sep, 11

July

• July 2024 Reading List Jul, 25
• Stand-up Paddling Jul, 22
• Toolbox App Nostalgia Jul, 17
• Take DNS under control with DNSSEC Jul, 5
• Take DNS under control with dnscontrol Jul, 1

June

• June 2024 Reading List Jun, 27
• Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones Jun, 25
• First thoughts on WWDC 2024 announcements Jun, 11

May

• Spring Cleaning May, 31
• May 2024 Reading List May, 30
• Spotify Car Thing discontinued May, 27
• KotlinConf 2024 Trip Report May, 25
• LEGO McLaren Formula 1 Racing Car May, 12
• Wings for Life World Run 2024 May, 10
• #100DaysToOffload May, 10

April

• April 2024 Reading List Apr, 25
• Playing with Rust Apr, 16
• 100 push-ups a day challenge Apr, 10

March

• March 2024 Reading List Mar, 28

February

• February 2024 Reading List Feb, 29
• My private garden Feb, 6

January

• January 2024 Reading List Jan, 25
• Mechanical keyboard Jan, 10

2023

• 2023 in Review Dec, 31
• December 2023 Reading List Dec, 28
• Essential Git setup Nov, 21
• App Defaults Nov, 11
• JetBrains Blog Toolbox App 2.0 overhauls installations and updates Aug, 7
• JetBrains Blog Toolbox App 2.0 Beta Streamlines Installation and Improves Integrations Jun, 20
• KotlinConf 2023 Trip Report May, 27
• JetBrains Blog Toolbox App 1.28 Is Out! Apr, 27
• JSON command line tools Jan, 18

2022

• 2022 in Review Dec, 31
• Localizing Kotlin applications Sep, 27
• JetBrains Blog Toolbox App 1.26 Released! Sep, 20
• JetBrains Blog Toolbox App 1.25 Is Here! Jul, 7

2021

• 2021 in Review Dec, 31
• JetBrains Blog New Tool Overview Pages, Improved Performance, Refreshed UI, and More in Toolbox App 1.21 Jul, 15

2020

• 2020 in Review Dec, 31
• Makefile plugin version 3 May, 28
• JetBrains Blog Toolbox App 1.17 is Out: Quality Improvements Arrive with a New Build Completely Rewritten in Kotlin Apr, 23

2019

• A curios case of (sometimes) failing HTTPS connection Oct, 15
• Ubuntu Theme for IntelliJ IDEA Mar, 15
• X11 app in Kotlin/Native Feb, 19
• Setting up IntelliJ IDEA on Ubuntu 18.10 Jan, 28

2018

• 2018 Conference Report Dec, 24
• Makefile support plugin 1.5 Sep, 27
• Unexpected GIF animation issues Aug, 29
• Black navigation bar on Galaxy S9 Jul, 21
• Thanks plugin for Gradle Jan, 15

2017

• 2017: Year in Review Dec, 31
• Expressive code with DSLs in Kotlin. Part 2 Dec, 24
• Expressive code with DSLs in Kotlin Dec, 11
• November 2017 Conference Report Nov, 29
• JetBrains Blog Toolbox App 1.5: Staying up-to-date has never been easier Oct, 26
• Inbox Zero and Getting Things Done Oct, 19
• Brazil Trip Report Sep, 14
• 🎉 Emoji on 🐧 Linux Aug, 28
• Weekend project: Proselint plugin for IntelliJ IDEA Jul, 24
• Building culture of gratitude Jun, 29
• JSON construction DSL in Kotlin May, 30
• JetBrains Blog JetBrains Toolbox App 1.3 is here May, 22
• Kotlin/Native 0.2 + GTK May, 16
• Bose Headphones spied on listeners (including me) May, 10
• Object Builders in idiomatic Kotlin Apr, 13
• 100% Code Coverage Apr, 1
• On code formatting Mar, 20
• Keeping passwords safe Mar, 9
• Software updates: pro et contra Feb, 28
• Makefile support plugin for IntelliJ IDEA Feb, 6
• Best practices in API design Jan, 24
• DSLs in Kotlin: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Jan, 11

2016

• Videos to watch on holidays Dec, 24
• Encrypted USB stick Dec, 12
• No prefix, please! Dec, 5
• BuildStuff 2016 Report Nov, 23
• Dell XPS 15 Nov, 6
• JetBrains Toolbox App 1.0 Oct, 19
• Skype Oct, 10
• JetBrains Blog JetBrains Toolbox App 1.0 Beta available Sep, 29
• Java Preferences API Sep, 28
• Hello World! Sep, 21