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 …

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 foundation of the project in this blog …

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 share with someone or tweets that point …

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 seemed annoying to debug. After hearing …

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 geolocation issues but also to prevent ISPs …

Recently I looked at my increasingly large pile of important documents and decided to make sorting them a small project. After a while it was clear that a lot of them are not important enough to keep …

If you've visited this blog before you might have noticed that it looks a bit different than before. You are not mistaken and the reason is that I spent some time on migrating it from the Ghost …

I'm a big proponent of using RSS feeds for your daily news intake instead of relying on algorithmically shuffled news streams for a while now. This works especially well if you want to follow smaller …