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 photographsFrom the collection
All plantsMonstera deliciosa — Swiss cheese plant. One of 46 species written up so far. The collection is grouped into 23 genera: Monstera , Philodendron , Alocasia , Anthurium , Dieffenbachia , Phyllotaenium , Ficus , Maranta , Begonia , Dionaea , Drosera , Sarracenia , Crassula , Dracaena , Coffea , Olea , Fittonia , Strobilanthes , Oxalis , Hoya , Arachniodes , Selaginella , Paphiopedilum .
Tools
All 12 tools- Network toolkit Subnet 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 reducer Resize 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 stripper See 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
All news- Rivian buys world model startup to accelerate self-driving ambitions TechCrunch
- Expanding Claude availability and deployment choice on Google Cloud Google Cloud
- Arc is being sunset on December 22, 2026 Hacker News
- A new subscription service promises an evolving collection of 'bold and bizarre' indie games Engadget