2022 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 …
Read the post2022 Birdfeeder Tech Stack
After sharing some information about how Birdfeeder collects your Twitter bookmarks and sends them to your inbox we are going to take a look at the technical …
Read the post2022 Birdfeeder: Twitter bookmarks in your email inbox
I'm a heavy user of Twitter bookmarks but I always forget checking them when I would actually have time to do so. I use them to bookmark tweets I later want to …
Read the post2022 Building Web Extensions for Chrome, Firefox and Safari
For my new side project I needed to build a browser extension. I was hesitant to build one as the development experience of doing everything in the browser …
Read the post2021 Review: GL-iNet Beryl MT1300 Travel Router (Apple TV on a VPN)
This is a short review of a new gadget I recently purchased. I sometimes have the need to route my Apple TV's traffic through a VPN. This can be for simple …
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