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 didn’t want to do narration or anything …

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 Music and stream them there. Many years ago …

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 and github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr …

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 "Installation failed" message. I started …

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 video file is not compatible" while only …

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 technical side it's a Rails app which relies …

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 artificer to kaniko. I wrote up a short …

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 usually familiar with the visual parts, I …

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 migrate to a managed Postgres instance on …

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 out user specific information. An easy way …