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 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, which is a server-api compatible server written in Rust as a single docker image having a lower resource demand.
read moreSeptember 23, 2020
When I started the graduation of my study Software Engineering in 2015, I was required to have a blog to log and share my findings with my university. At that time WordPress was an easy-to-setup and easy-to-use solution. That is still true, but it does have its disadvantages too.
read moreSeptember 15, 2020
Although my site does not yet contain much content, I thought it would be nice to have some kind of search functionality. I found some nice solutions and this is what I did:
read moreAugust 31, 2020
As probably many of you, I have a personal and work email address. When working on my personal stuff, I want to use my personal email address for personal code commits and my work email address for work related commits.
Many a time I find I have used my work related email address for my personal work…
read moreAugust 5, 2020
With the system outage at Garmin between July 23rd and July 29th 2020, it became clear that a user is really dependent on the Garmin systems for access to their own data. This made me think about ways to at least have a copy in my own possession.
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