The Hidden Blog

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2020 Almost Paperless Office

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 …

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2020 My Ghost to Hugo migration

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 …

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2020 RSS is luckily not dead yet

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 …

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2019 Apple ruined iTunes — What now?

Apple ruined iTunes — What now?

I didn't exactly love iTunes during the last few iterations but even with Apple Music slowly creeping into the interface it was still the same old — powerful — …

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2019 Set Apple Touch Icon for any website

Set Apple Touch Icon for any website

There are some websites that I use via the "Add to Home Screen" feature of iOS to make them easily accessible on my Home Screen. The problem is that websites …

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2019 Downgrade Go installed with Homebrew

I just had the issue that I installed Go 1.13 which messed up VSCode auto completion and is also not supported by the CI pipeline I wanted to use. This meant I …

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2019 BOM there it is

BOM there it is

Came across an interesting behavior the other day and thought I'll share my frustration, maybe someone else runs into the same issue. I received a report as an …

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2019 Restic: Backup cloud server to Synology NAS

Restic: Backup cloud server to Synology NAS

After migrating to a new server host I set up a reminder in my reminders app to create a proper backup strategy. This was nagging me every day but I always …

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2019 Trip Report: Working in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Trip Report: Working in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

After checking my countdown app far too many times it was finally time to make my way down to Kuala Lumpur again. I was going to stay in Asia for 4 weeks this …

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2019 Podcast Recommendations 2019

Podcast Recommendations 2019

I love getting recommendations for new Podcasts so I thought I'll write up a list of my favorites so far. Receiving great recommendations is also the reason …

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