The Hidden Blog

As it turns out, I do have a hostname.

2014 Make calibre updates less annoying

If you are dealing with ebooks you are probably aware of Calibre. It’s ugly and a pain to use but it’s currently the only application to use if you are serious about organizing your books and/or sync books not purchased on Amazon to your Kindle.

One of Calibres quirks is that it’s...

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2014 Backup your server with Tarsnap

Regular and automated backups are hard to get right if you are not on a Mac using TimeMachine.

There are multiple ways to keep and maintain backups on a linux box (rsnapshot, rsync,…). I was searching for a service to create and store encrypted offsite backups which is reasonable cheap. I...

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2014 Using Newsbeuter to read your RSS feeds

After the shutdown of Google Reader I was in desperate need of a new feed reader. After using Feedbin for a few months I finally settled on Newsbeuter. It’s a beautiful, highly customizable and text based RSS feed reader for your terminal - some even call it the “Mutt of Feed...

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2014 Deploy websites using git

This guide explains how to deploy to a remote server by pushing to a remote git repository which is using a custom post-receive hook to checkout the contents of the repository to the webservers public www root.

The local repository

cd ~/sites
mkdir example.com
cd example.com
git init
>...

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