"He didn't post since 2021... Will he be back?"
It’s been a while since I wrote anything.
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Status January 2021
Lots of things this month, the biggest being that I started to blog a bit more, thanks to the #100DaysToOffLoad challenge.
Self-Hosting and Risk Assessment
Someone reached out to me to get advices on the best password manager out there.
The case against Signal
With WhatsApp changing its privacy policy, Signal has been getting a lot of attention over the past few days.
Session sharing with tmux
One thing I’ve been using forever but even more since I started working from home is tmux session sharing.
Full Disk Encryption with Proxmox and ZFS
I’ve recently bough a MicroServer Gen 10+ from HP to use as a lab and also as a NAS.
Getting some stats out of this blog
Since I started the #100DaysToOffload challenge, I’ve been looking at my logs using goaccess on my terminal.
Decision Records
As you go and progress in your life, you take decisions.
Prometheus metrics on Caddy
Continuing with my Caddy experimentation, I wanted to get some metrics out of it.
Caddy as a reverse proxy to Dendrite
I use Dendrite as I experiment with Matrix.
Kafka crashed __consumer_offsets compaction
Disclaimer: this post is about an ancient (0.
Find oldest files in a directory recursively
Small post today, just a command.
WireGuard on your EdgeRouter
I use WireGuard as my personal VPN.
WhatsApp: what now?
WhatsApp started giving an ultimatum to its users: accept that your data is shared with facebook or stop using the app.
OpenTracks, the privacy respecting sport tracker
OpenTracks is “A sport tracker that completely respects your privacy.
Working From Home Tips
2020 and the Coronavirus pushed a lot of people to work from home and by the look of it, it’ll continue for at least a good part of 2021.
Use your reMarkable as a whiteboard
I’ve bought a Remarkable 2 when they were announced and received it a whopping 6 months later thanks to Covid-19.
JIRA on the CLI
Small discovery I’ve made a while ago: jira.
100 Days to Offload
I’ve always wanted to write a blog.
How to separate work/personal life on Firefox
I’m an avid Firefox user, both at work and in my personal life.
Lets Encrypt Behind The Firewall
Dehydrated is a client for getting certificates from an ACME server (think let’s encrypt).
HP ILO 100 - Get console access when unresponsive
We all have some old servers that we forget about, until they crash.
Unable to click in Proxmox 4.4 with Firefox
There’s a bug preventing touchscreen owners to use Proxmox 4.