Restic: Backup cloud server to Synology NAS After migrating to a new server host I set up a reminder in my reminders app to create a proper backup strategy. This was nagging me every day but I always bumped it
Trip Report: Working in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia After checking my countdown app far too many times it was finally time to make my way down to Kuala Lumpur again. I was going to stay in Asia for 4 weeks this
Podcast Recommendations 2019 I love getting recommendations for new Podcasts so I thought I'll write up a list of my favorites so far. Receiving great recommendations is also the reason why I still have a long
Survive a long-haul flight in Economy class If you have to sit in an aircraft for more than 10h there's a few things that are absolutely essential to not feel completely dead on arrival. Some of these are very obvious,
iA Writer and Ghost Blog I just found out that you can directly push drafts from iA Writer to a blog running on Ghost with just one click.Excited about this fact I followed the short official guide
Using Slack without going insane There's no shortage of people complaining about Slack on a daily basis, a subset of these people were forced by their corporate overlord to put up with Slack from now on, another group
The sad state of RSS on the Mac I stopped using an RSS feed reader for a while because at some point my inbox got a bit out of hand by having too many unread items piled up. I slowly stopped
Hong Kong A short, picture-heavy summary of my two weeks trip to Hong Kong earlier this summer. To set the mood there's some recommended songs to play if you are interested. They are to be
Essential apps on macOS Someone who just bought his first Mac asked me which essential (GUI) apps I currently use that I could recommend to him. As this will probably happen again I'll just keep this list
Use Google Hangouts via Bitlbee / IRC As someone who hates Google Hangouts with a passion it took me surprisingly long to look into a way to use it via an IRC bridge to get rid of the annoying Chrome
Let's Encrypt with auto-renewal and nginx I recently moved from using a wildcard certificate to using a bunch of certificates from Let's Encrypt. I was a bit hesitant in the beginning because it seemed like a lot of work
Duplicity with PyDrive backend for Google Drive Storing backups in Google Drive with duplicity was broken for a long time now. Luckily someone wrote a new backend that is now able to make use of the new OAuth API requirement
Setting up a Tor hidden service with nginx Quick guide based on @CthulhuSec's tutorial for setting up a Tor hidden service. If you don't know what a hidden service is read this high-level description before continuing. Install Tor Install the Tor
31C3 Just like every year the time between Christmas and New Years is best spent at the Chaos Communication Congress happening at the CCH in Hamburg. Following is a list of all the talks
Push(over) notifications for Gentoo updates This shell script will send you a push notification if there are new Gentoo updates available. It's based on ftf's Ruby script for Prowl. Application Token To get the Application token just create
Automated and encrypted backups with duplicity If you don't like ending up like the plane in the header image (Jeff Sheldon, Unsplash) you should probably make sure you do have a good backup and restore strategy. The goal of
Calculate total filesize of multiple torrent files Quick script which lets you check if you have enough storage space to download all these sweet Linux distributions (nah mean) you already grabbed the .torrent file for. Nested directories (*cough* collages) are
ScreenUpload: Automatically upload screenshots with scp There are a lot of scripts and applications out there acomplishing the same task, most of them are probably more polished than what I came up with, but there was always something missing
Backup ZNC Logs automatically This is a short script to automatically backup the ZNC logs from multiple remote servers to a local directory. If you want to run it on a system which isn't Mac OS you'll
Setting up a new Munin slave node Filing this away for future reference. Install munin from package sources apt-get install munin-node Add master node to allowed IPs vim etc/munin/munin-node.conf Unfortunately it's only allowed to add IPs and
Nginx, Wildcard SSL and Subdomains I just setup SSL on all my *.notmyhostna.me domains and here's how I did it. Buy certificate First you need to buy a wildcard certificate, I bought one from cheapsslsecurity.com. If
Atlas of the Conflict The Atlas of the Conflict is a beautiful book containing over 500 maps and diagrams providing both a great overview and very detailed information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The author of the book
Mass renaming files - now with more Vim! As it happens you sometimes end up with a bunch of files which you would rather rename to something else and it'd be pretty sweet to just rename them like you would search
Recover photos from storage devices Today I got asked if I could recover some photos from an accidentally formatted CompactFlash memory card. I knew about TestDisk already because I used it in the past to recover some files
"Have you ever heard of Austria? - Kangaroo!" Sometimes I interview people on IRC and one of the questions I'm asking is: Have you ever heard of Austria? If you have, what are the first three words that come to your