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Home Network Update
Home Network Update I spent the day changing how my home network works. Or rather, how I make services on my home network available when I'm on the go. I run two servers at home. My NAS , which uses Docker Compose to provide a bunch of useful tools, mostly for internal use, and…
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TIL: PHP IIS 8kb Request Limit?
TIL: PHP IIS 8kb Request Limit? Today, at $dayjob, I was called into a remote debugging session. For some reason the DokuWiki install at a customer failed to save long pages. Instead of saving, the editor just reloaded and showed the previous state again. No errors in DokuWiki…
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MonsterID as Gravatar Fallback
MonsterID as Gravatar Fallback Today I stumbled across a link at Simon Willison's blog : Visual Security: 9-block IP Identification Smart (and pretty) trick for showing a representation tied to a commenter’s IP address without affecting their privacy It is very cool indeed. Don…
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My new favorite Terminal
My new favorite Terminal I have been using the XFCE terminal for decades now and it has always been good enough. However there was one thing that was starting to bug me. I usually prefer my terminal light on dark. It's what most tools expect and what usually looks best. However,…
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Home Assistant Transplant
Home Assistant Transplant I have been running Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 4 for about five years now. A short while ago, homeassistant was suddenly no longer responding. Neither web ui nor a SSH login worked. So I cut the RPi's power and rebooted it. That seemed to have…
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Retractable Cable USB-C Chargers (65W PD)
Retractable Cable USB-C Chargers (65W PD) Like all my other modern electronics, my Framework Laptop 2) charges via USB-C. When I got it, I bought a Ugreen Nexode charger, an Anker Powerline Flow III cable and 3D printed an oganizer for it. It works, but the result is a bit bulky…
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PSA: Bubbles.town has a widget
PSA: Bubbles.town has a widget I am a big fan of bubbles.town , a relatively new website to make it easier to discover the indieweb of personal blogs. Sounds familiar? I run indieblog.page where the idea is that you can discover new blogs one random post at a time . Bubble's…
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Pallet Wood Crafting Table
Pallet Wood Crafting Table One of my favorite YouTube channels is EpicUpCycling . If you don't know it, check it out. Jason builds amazing things out of pallet wood. I'm far from his skill, but he taught me not to throw away or just burn pallets. The wood might look shabby but…
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Auto-Delete old Mails from GMail
Auto-Delete old Mails from GMail My inbox is a mess. While I manage to maintain a somewhat close to “Inbox Zero” at work, my personal GMail's inbox currently sits at 2,215 emails . A large amount of those mails are notifications of some kind, like from Github for example. GMail…
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Old Game, New Clothes
Old Game, New Clothes Back in university in 2003 we had to do a group project. I don't remember which course it was, but the assignment was pretty open. Basically as long as you coded something, you passed. I had just switched from my trusty Palm Tungsten E2 PDA to a Linux based…
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LAN Overview 2026
LAN Overview 2026 The last time that I blogged about my personal LAN setup was more than a decade ago . Meanwhile we moved into our own house and one of the major things we did, was adding Ethernet to every room. So let's have a look at the current state: This only shows the…
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Appy - An AppImage Installer
Appy - An AppImage Installer I nerd-sniped myself today. All I wanted to do was installing SuperSonic , a subsonic compatible music player written in go. One of their recommended ways to run it is an AppImage. An AppImage is basically an ELF executable which contains a SquashFS…
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Gmail Backup and notmuch GUI
Gmail Backup and notmuch GUI I am still working adding services to my NAS and one thing that was on my todo list for a while was a proper GMail backup. You never know when the powers that be deny you access to your mails for some obscure reasons. One guard is using my own…
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Password Hasher PWA
Password Hasher PWA Nearly two decades ago I wrote about a mechanism to have different passwords for every web site, without a central password manager storing your passwords. All you needed is an algorithm and a master password. I am still using the mechanism 10) . But the…