The Hidden Blog

As it turns out, I do have a hostname.

2019 iA Writer and Ghost Blog

I just found out that you can directly push drafts from iA Writer to a blog running on Ghost with just one click. Excited about this fact I followed the short …

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2018 The sad state of RSS on the Mac

The sad state of RSS on the Mac

I stopped using an RSS feed reader for a while because at some point my inbox got a bit out of hand by having too many unread items piled up. I slowly stopped …

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2018 Hong Kong

Hong Kong

A short, picture-heavy summary of my two weeks trip to Hong Kong earlier this summer. To set the mood there's some recommended songs to play if you are …

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2016 Essential apps on macOS

Someone who just bought his first Mac asked me which essential (GUI) apps I currently use that I could recommend to him. As this will probably happen again …

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2016 Use Google Hangouts via Bitlbee / IRC

As someone who hates Google Hangouts with a passion it took me surprisingly long to look into a way to use it via an IRC bridge to get rid of the annoying …

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2016 Let's Encrypt with auto-renewal and nginx

Let's Encrypt with auto-renewal and nginx

I recently moved from using a wildcard certificate to using a bunch of certificates from Let's Encrypt. I was a bit hesitant in the beginning because it seemed …

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2015 Duplicity with PyDrive backend for Google Drive

Duplicity with PyDrive backend for Google Drive

Storing backups in Google Drive with duplicity was broken for a long time now. Luckily someone wrote a new backend that is now able to make use of the new …

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2015 Setting up a Tor hidden service with nginx

Setting up a Tor hidden service with nginx

Quick guide based on @CthulhuSec's tutorial for setting up a Tor hidden service. If you don't know what a hidden service is read this high-level description …

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2015 31C3

31C3

Just like every year the time between Christmas and New Years is best spent at the Chaos Communication Congress happening at the CCH in Hamburg. Following is a …

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2014 Push(over) notifications for Gentoo updates

This shell script will send you a push notification if there are new Gentoo updates available. It's based on ftf's Ruby script for Prowl. {{< gist dewey …

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