2023 Vlogging
This year I started playing around with creating video content. The goal was to create low-effort semi-frequent video summaries of what I have been up to. I …
Read the post2023 New music in my email inbox
In the past years I came to the realization that I don't discover new music any more. Now I see new albums if they show up on my "Listen Now" view in Apple …
Read the post2023 Taking a look at Nostr
After hearing about Nostr from multiple people over the past weeks I decided to take a look and learn more about it. I found nostr-resources.com, usenostr.org …
Read the post2023 Fixing failed installation of EPSON printer driver
Recently I ran into the issue where installing an EPSON SC-P900 printer driver on macOS (before and after the update to Ventura) always failed with a generic …
Read the post2022 Convert video for Twitter
If you want to post a video on Twitter there's a few rules that are important for the video to be accepted. Unfortunately the interface will only show "The …
Read the post2022 Push notifications from AppSignal with Pushover
I'm using AppSignal to monitor Birdfeeder. Birdfeeder's job is to send your Twitter bookmarks to your email inbox so you don't forget about them. On the …
Read the post2022 Building container images in Kubernetes with kaniko
A few weeks ago I rebuilt a GitLab CI pipeline at JustWatch. One part of that was to move the step building the container images in the Kubernetes cluster from …
Read the post2022 Listening to a movie as an audiobook
Today I was reading a comment on HN that piqued my interest. I used to rip the audio of my favourite movies and listen to them like audiobooks. Because I was …
Read the post2022 Migrating from self-hosted Postgres to DigitalOcean
Until now Birdfeeder was powered by a self-hosted Postgres instance which is used by various other side projects. It was running out of space and decided to …
Read the post2022 Check Postgres table dependencies for cascade
Currently I'm working on a better staging setup for Birdfeeder. A big part of that is syncing the production database to the staging database while cleaning …
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