Hey, I’m Rico

Software engineer, building digital things

I work as an employed developer for a software engineering company in Osnabrück, Germany. I started to work in software companies in 2016, during my time as CS student at Kiel University. Besides my professional work, I love to experiment with code and software and enjoy playing on the big digital playground. I'm passionate about coding, all this digital stuff, sports, and a lot of other things - you find out more about me and my passions on this page.

Read my blog posts or check ABOUT for more info.

Featured Posts

• Setting up a Private Docker Registry in a Kubernetes Cluster - Test Pushing Images and Running Deployments

  Published:Mar 6, 2024

  I created a private Docker registry within my Kubernetes cluster and tested how to push images and run deployments from it

• Collaboration with other developers - 8 Behaviors to avoid

  Published:Oct 8, 2023

  A look into collaborative challenges in software development, highlighting behaviors to avoid, based on my recent experiences.

• 10+ years of desk setup evolution

  Published:Mar 29, 2023

  Talking about the various different writing tasks, I have to do in my daily life as software developer.

• How to change the last commit message after pushed?

  Published:Nov 25, 2022

  When you need to correct something in you commit message, after you already sent it to the remote repository.

• How to convert a VSS project to git?

  Published:Mar 15, 2022

  How I migrated a bunch of projects to another version control system - from VSS to git.

Featured Projects

• Dartenbank

  Application for tracking Darts games with friends and providing a bunch of statistics. The reason for making this was to be able to enter the scores on one shared phone lying around, but everyone with an account should be able to see his games & stats afterwards.

• Sideproject Hub

  Not a real software project. I just want to configure a server setup that makes it as easy as possible for me to release side projects as quickly as possible.

• GPX Mapper

  Create awesome looking maps with some auto generated stats from GPX files. Upload multiple GPX files from your GPS tracked activities (bike, running or whatever else) to get Heatmaps or maps with multiple stages.

• ricoklimpel.de Website

  I dumped my Wordpress website to have a fancy self-developed website as a software developer. This is now built with Astro and offers space for information about me, my projects and for blog articles I wrote.

Recent Posts

• Enabling TLS Encryption for Applications in a Kubernetes Cluster and Delivering a Test Page over HTTPS

  Published:Feb 28, 2024

  Notes on Setting up TLS Encryption and HTTPS Redirects in a Kubernetes Cluster and accessing a sample web application via https.

• Setting up a Kubernetes Cluster with K3S on my linux server

  Published:Feb 19, 2024

  Notes on Setting up a Kubernetes Cluster on Linux Server with K3S, Enabling External Access from My MacBook using kubectl/k9s, and Deploying an Nginx Hello World Example Accessible on a Subdomain.

• 8 uncommon Tipps for working with VS Code

  Published:Oct 4, 2023

  Some less mentioned tips for optimizing the Visual Studio Code experience

• What do you enjoy about your work as software developer?

  Published:Oct 2, 2023

  Exploring the rewarding aspects of being a software developer and talking about a few key points why I like being a software developer

• What kind of writing do you do as software developer?

  Published:Sep 14, 2023

  Talking about the various different writing tasks, I have to do in my daily life as software developer.