My little corner of the internet where I post about whatever I like, mostly tech though
I think it's always cool to look through the tech that other people use. As a very techy person, I feel like it can give an interesting insight into a persons priorities. As should become obvious on this page: My setup is a mess and in no way coherent! Hardware Laptops Macbook Pro M5 (2025) Daily driver RAM: 32GB Storage: 1TB Macbook Air M1 (2020) RAM: 8GB Storage: 512GB Framework 16 (Batch…
For the last year, I was running a small fediverse bot that sent a daily message, asking UpCloud to start offering BGP sessions to their customers. Yesterday marked the end of this little bot, as I let the domain expire and thus set an end to this fun, little afternoon project. This is the whole story around how the bot came to be and the impact that it had. Spoiler: No, UpCloud still does not…
As anyone that follows me on the Fediverse probably knows: I was at the DENOG17 conference, a week ago. ( Here is the thread) This is pretty much the first conference that I ever went to. And I went to it, out of my own interest and as myself. As I have been diving into networking topics over roughly the last 1-2 years, I would often find myself without people to talk to about it. Most people I…
Joel posted a reply to my previous post and linked to these two different posts by Thomas and Ava . I agree with both of them. A phone should be looked at as a tool and cutting out all of the noise that makes it addictive should fix the problem, right? Well, I've found that it isn't that easy for me. I very specifically talked about the smartphone itself as the problem, because my brain…
I've recently become disgusted by how much I use my phone. Probably has to do with the YouTube algorithm having decided to serve me a lot of these "switching to a dumb phone", "I went x days without my phone" type of videos. Though I hate to be trendy, it made me think. Most of these types of videos specifically mention the big social media platforms as the culprit of this. Maybe in…
As evident by my last blog post "A prison of my own making" , I needed to change something about my relationship with technology. How I was doing things didn't work anymore, but I also felt unable to change anything about it, as the way I was doing things seemed like the way that I was supposed to use. What I needed was a fresh start. And I managed to find that fresh start in the BSD family…
Yesterday I realized something : I've built myself into a prison and didn't realize it. Let me explain: Working on tech projects has always been something relaxing for me. If I was stressed about something, I could always turn to my homelab as a source of calm and it would usually provide exactly the balance that I needed to keep going. But recently I found this not to be the case…
When one spends enough time in the self-hosting bubble, one will inevitably come across someone thinking about self-hosting email. After all it's one of the few remaining open standards from a long time ago, that are still hugely important today. Also inevitably there will be a flood of people telling that person not to do it, as email nowadays has become a terrible mess because of the…
A few days ago, at their Hetzner Summit, Hetzner finally announced that they are going to be offering Object Storage in the future. Right now, they are offering a beta that will run for 1 to 2 months and you can request access to from the Hetzner Cloud panel. I'm excited for this, because I've been on the lookup for a good, reasonably priced object storage provider for a while. I've…
After a conversation on Mastodon I realized that I never publicly documented the steps I took to configure K3s to run using only IPv6 addresses from a public prefix. Thus I am writing this post to recount the steps I needed to take to make this setup work. Design Goals I wanted to create a single-node K3s installation on my server to be able to make use of the Kubernetes tool ecosystem and not…
I've been using VyOS 1.3 for some time now in my Homelab and it has been working great overall. Recently though I encountered some issues with BGP Peer Groups, required me to reboot VyOS on almost every configuration change. I found the related Bug report and the issue is related to the legacy code, used in version 1.3. The issue has been fixed by the newer replacement Python code in Version…
I am running a 3 node K3s HA Kubernetes cluster at home, to run most of my selfhosted services. Before going all in with the cluster and migrating all of my stuff onto it, I decided that I wanted to upgrade the internal SSDs of all nodes to 1 TB. But instead of re-installing the whole cluster, I wanted to do a rolling upgrade and replace the nodes 1 by 1, keeping the existing Kubernetes…
Disclaimer : This text originated from my final submission in the lecture "Data Warehouse" by Andreas Buckenhofer . I have removed parts that specifically relate to the course. In today's connected world data has become one of the most valuable goods. All kinds of services and devices are collecting data about users’ behavior to either improve their service to the user or to sell it to third…
I just found out that Docker has released a first Preview of Docker on Apple Silicon. It's been there for a while, but I just found out and I am really excited, as I use Docker a lot for development purposes. Pulling a container is just often times a lot simpler, then having to install a particular suite of software components. In this post, I want to share my initial impressions of using the…
I got back into regularly photographing with my DSLR in the last couple of months and was struggling to find a good photo editing software for RAW photos. I was previously using Photoshop on the desktop, but as I had moved to using Linux primarily I didn't want to keep booting into Windows to edit photos. I tried digiKam, Darktable and RawTherapee and none of them really worked for me, so I…
Creating this website has been a very long process for me. I had tried many different kinds of software that each had their own advantages and disadvantages. In this post I want to explain to you the different phases I went through and how I landed on my current Ghost setup. Requirements The first mistake I made was not having clearly made up my mind about what was important for me to have on my…
Yesterday was the Apple Silicon event , where they unveiled their new Apple M1 Chip as well as the new Macbook Air, Macbook Pro and Mac Mini with that chip. In this article I want to talk about why I think that the transition to ARM processors in Apples computer lineup is not only an important step for Apple, but rather a seismic shift to the entire industry and will be, looking back from the…