2018 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 …
Read the post2016 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 …
Read the post2016 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 …
Read the post2016 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 …
Read the post2015 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 …
Read the post2015 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 …
Read the post2015 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 …
Read the post2014 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 …
Read the post2014 Automated and encrypted backups with duplicity
If you don't like ending up like the plane in the header image (Jeff Sheldon, Unsplash) you should probably make sure you do have a good backup and restore …
Read the post2014 Calculate total filesize of multiple torrent files
Quick script which lets you check if you have enough storage space to download all these sweet Linux distributions you already grabbed the .torrent file for. …
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