January 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.

October 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…

January 11, 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.

January 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?

December 7, 2022

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

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!

September 27, 2023

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.

August 27, 2021

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.

August 27, 2021

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

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.

September 16, 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:

January 29, 2021

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…

September 16, 2020

With the system outage at Garmin between July 23^rd and July 29^th 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.

September 16, 2020

Using scrcpy, you can control your Android phone in a window as if it runs on your machine.