August 30, 2020
Now - September 2020
When I stumbled across Koos Looijesteijn’s now page, I had never seen such a page. But apparently many more have been inspired by Derek Sivers’ /now page movement.
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thoughts, tips and notes-to-self
August 30, 2020
When I stumbled across Koos Looijesteijn’s now page, I had never seen such a page. But apparently many more have been inspired by Derek Sivers’ /now page movement.
read moreOctober 26, 2024
Using Micro:bit on a Linux machine is apparently not evident…
read moreJanuary 19, 2023
I’m a happy Linux desktop user and running Zorin OS 16.2. Every now and then some Gnome extensions stop working without any error message. I found out what happens.
read moreOctober 15, 2022
I recently got a new Lenovo ThinkPad T14 laptop and decided to install Zorin 16.1 on it. But, consistently, after suspending, the laptop froze…
read moreJanuary 9, 2022
When building your own docker images, there are several best practices you can follow to optimize on security and size of your image. I came across a video on YouTube that mentions 8, and I think they make sense.
read moreJanuary 6, 2022
I’ve been using Zorin 16 since around August 2021 on an external SSD. But, out-of-the-box Zorin does not support hibernation. As a result, I have to restart my work environment on every restart.
My daily driver is Windows 10, so hibernation is something I use often, especially when I switch to my Zorin installation. Would Linux support hibernation?
read moreFebruary 2, 2021
I have been using PiHole for some time now and have experimented a bit with the upstream DNS servers. Do I use my ISP’s one or Google’s or any other one out there on the internet? Either choice didn’t feel optimal with respect to our privacy, but what alternative(s) do I have?
I have been doing it all wrong!
read moreFebruary 2, 2021
This morning I noticed my server’s disk space was already used more than 90% and trends shown by my InfluxDB dashboards
showed, it would be fully depleted soon if I didn’t do anything about it.
So, I used du -hn 1
starting from /
to track down where the disk space was used, and it showed Docker was the culprit.
October 19, 2020
Whenever I write a new article for my site, I would like to have it published automatically. As mentioned earlier, I’m using Hugo to generate it and I have seen several solutions of other Hugo users for automated deployment.
read moreSeptember 23, 2020
While I have been quite satisfied using a self-hosted official Bitwarden server,
the large amount of containers and high resource usage has always seemed over the top for a “simple password vault”.
Now, I ran into Bitwarden RS Vaultwarden, which is a server-api compatible server
written in Rust as a single docker image having a lower resource demand.