This is my blog now
I deploy almost all of the stuff I self-host with Docker Compose . I think it's an accessible and yet powerful way to do this in a (mostly) declarative way. Sometimes it is desirable to reuse things you declare in a Compose file, for example when you want to deploy a service in multiple environments, or you have environment variables shared between services. In my case the need arose in the…
It's homelab architecture time again! Sorry everyone (I'm really not). I've been mulling over the current state of affairs and have been thinking for a while that there's room for improvement. I mean, isn't there always? But let me back up. Until now I had the following: Multiple self-hosted services running in Docker containers Multiple hosts at home One VPS host A set of lengthy Ansible…
The Background I never had a console as a kid, I only had friends who had one. Nintendo's N64 hit my friend's rooms some time during elemental school so, consequently, I'd spend lots of time at other kids' houses to experience games I couldn't play myself. And when I say "experience" I mostly mean watch other people play. I'm not sure if I had the desire to play myself or whether I was content…
Did you know how extraordinary water is? This substance that we (living in privileged countries) mostly take for granted which is so ubiquitous on this planet we live on? I am not talking about the philosophical aspects, how soothing it is to sit by the sea and listen to the waves, or how tranquil and content it can make you feel to sit at a pond on a warm summer's day and let your feet hang into…
Edit : A while ago I realized that the setup described here does not actually work. Using a read-only container breaks the intended update mechanism so I made the necessary changes and updated the blog post As you might know, I recently migrated my blog from Hugo to Pure Blog . This was a nontrivial switch because Hugo is a static site generator (meaning it generates a bunch of HTML, CSS and JS…
The other day I had a conversation about money but it has also been on my mind a fair bit recently. You see, I live in one of the richest countries in the world 1 but what seems to be much more relevant to the individual is relative wealth, meaning: do you have more, less or the same amount of money (and stuff you can buy with it) than the people around you? Objectively speaking (as much as that…
I finally did it. I removed that one post that single-handedly accounts for more than half of all of the traffic on my blog. You see, this started out as a simple "How To" to document running one of my favorite games on Linux, one that is notoriously finicky, even on Windows and I kept forgetting how to do it again. That was in December 2021. Fast forward to now and it's become the most…
EDIT : I had totally forgotten one but it's in here now! It is an obvious truth that words hold power. This can take many forms, be it song lyrics, novels, speeches, short stories, movies, or comics. Today I'd like to share a few words produced by other people that have moved me and stayed with me for a long time now. It is difficult to convey emotional resonance adequately (or at all) but I will…
What did you expect when you started this project? Of course you'll be going down rabbit holes! – Everyone, probably Look, I know ! Can we just pretend that this was absolutely unexpected, let me moan about how this is eating way too much time but it's still totally exciting and so cool and I can rave about the small web or indie web or whatever it's called anyway? No? Oh well. But since you're…
It is one of my biggest pet peeves how people seem to have this diffuse idea of "naturalness" in their head. As I perceive it, this builds on the (historically somewhat recent) idea that nature is some sort of ideal, god-given (depending on what your personal belief system is, of course) state and/or entity that we humans interact with. It is apparently understood that nature is this gold standard…