Posts

• 2020 Almost Paperless Office

  Recently I looked at my increasingly large pile of *important* documents and decided to make sorting them a small proje...

• 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 mistak...

• 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 s...

• 2020 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 interfa...

• 2020 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 Hom...

• 2020 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 ...

• 2020 BOM there it is

  Came across an interesting behavior the other day and thought I'll share my frustration, maybe someone else runs into ...

• 2020 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 ...

• 2020 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...

• 2020 Podcast Recommendations 2019

  My personal podcast recommendations for 2019. Includes F1, Tech, Apple and podcasts about books.

• 2020 Survive a long-haul flight in Economy class

  A few personal recommendations on how to survive a long haul flight in economy class.

• 2020 iA Writer and Ghost Blog

  I just found out that you can directly push drafts from [iA Writer](https://ia.net/writer) to a blog running on [Ghost...

• 2020 The sad state of RSS on the Mac

  A listing of current RSS feed readers available on macOS and their problems.

• 2020 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 rec...

• 2020 Essential apps on macOS

  A list of all apps I currently use on a daily basis.

• 2020 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 I...

• 2020 Let's Encrypt with auto-renewal and nginx

  Setup Let's Encrypt with nginx, auto renewal with cron and multiple domains on Gentoo.

• 2020 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 t...

• 2020 Setting up a Tor hidden service with nginx

  A quick guide to walk you through setting up your own Tor hidden service on Gentoo and using the nginx web server.

• 2020 31C3

  Just like every year the time between Christmas and New Years is best spent at the [Chaos Communication Congress](http...

• 2020 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](htt...

• 2020 Automated and encrypted backups with duplicity

  Automated and encrypted backups with duplicity, duply and Gentoo.

• 2020 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...

• 2020 ScreenUpload: Automatically upload screenshots with scp

  A simple tool to automatically move, rename and upload screenshots from a specific location to a remote server with SCP.

• 2020 Backup ZNC Logs automatically

  This is a short script to automatically backup the ZNC logs from multiple remote servers to a local directory. If you...

• 2020 Setting up a new Munin slave node

  Filing this away for future reference. **Install munin from package sources** apt-get install munin-node **Add ...

• 2020 Nginx, Wildcard SSL and Subdomains

  I just setup SSL on all my `*.notmyhostna.me` domains and here's how I did it. ## Buy certificate First you need to ...

• 2020 Atlas of the Conflict

  The [Atlas of the Conflict](http://www.atlasoftheconflict.com/) is a beautiful book containing over 500 maps and diagr...

• 2020 Mass renaming files - now with more Vim!

  As it happens you sometimes end up with a bunch of files which you would rather rename to something else and it'd be p...

• 2020 Recover photos from storage devices

  Today I got asked if I could recover some photos from an accidentally formatted CompactFlash memory card. I knew about...

• 2020 Have you ever heard of Austria? - Kangaroo!

  Sometimes I interview people on IRC and one of the questions I'm asking is: > Have you ever heard of Austria? If you ...

• 2020 Overwriting Textual's shortcuts

  If you are anything like me, you are connected to a large number of IRC networks and the accompanying channels. As it ...

• 2020 Fixing things - the ugly way

  Because sometimes it's just easier to find a dirty workaround than actually fixing the underlying problem. **The prob...

• 2020 Pick a random file from a directory

  AKA. Which movie should I watch today? Unfortunately the version of `sort` shipped with Mac OS doesn't include the `-...

• 2020 Running OpenVPN with OpenVZ

  Just filing this away for future reference. If you want to run OpenVPN within a OpenVZ container you'll have to setup...

• 2020 Make calibre updates less annoying

  If you are dealing with ebooks you are probably aware of [Calibre](http://calibre-ebook.com/). It's ugly and a pain to...

• 2020 Backup your server with Tarsnap

  Regular and automated backups are hard to get right if you are not on a Mac using TimeMachine. There are multiple way...

• 2020 Using Newsbeuter to read your RSS feeds

  After the shutdown of [Google Reader](http://www.google.com/reader/about/) I was in desperate need of a new feed reade...

• 2020 Deploy websites using git

  This guide explains how to deploy to a remote server by pushing to a remote git repository which is using a custom pos...