One of my favorite discoveries when staying in Hong Kong in the past two years was the hackerspace " Dim Sum Labs" (DSL). It is the first of its kind in the city and opened its doors in 2010. I …

I recently looked into some performance issues on a large PostgreSQL 13.12 instance. One part of that was to make sure we don’t have too much locking going on in busy tables. "Locking metrics on the …

In 2023 I spent two months in Hong Kong, here’s a small subset of places that I remember and liked. More inspiration for places to visit are in my vlog episodes I shared in a previous post. There’s a …

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 …