August 30, 2020

now

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.

January 19, 2023

tip

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.

October 15, 2022

tip

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…

January 9, 2022

tip

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.

January 6, 2022

tip

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?

December 22, 2021

tip

It was sometime ago that I setup Wireguard as my VPN server. I have configured my mobile to use it and it works flawlessly.
But, every now and then, I want to add a client and I have to search how to do it every time…

February 2, 2021

tip

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!

February 2, 2021

tip

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

tip

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.

September 23, 2020

tip

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.

September 23, 2020

tip

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.