This is my blog now

Tag: technology

But What About AI?

The Setup Just to manage expectations: This is not yet another hot take about "AI". I don't have one. This is my attempt to find my own voice in a cacophony of noise and maybe, just maybe, attaining s...

Personal, Technology, AI

A New Hope (where Hope == e-reader)

Since I like reading and shelf space is precious where I live I own an ebook reader. I've had this one for a few years now and bought it used back in the day but by now it has accumulated a sufficient...

Personal, Technology, Privacy

My Subscriptions

EDIT: I totally forgot stuff so I had to edit it in! I was prompted to write this down by a blost from Matt in which he lists all the things he subscribes to and I figured I'd do the same. So here goe...

Personal, Technology

Next Round of Homelab Updates

Monitoring Cleanup Has it been a week already? Time never stands still, does it? Anyhoo, I ended my last post being unsure about how exactly to do monitoring. Who watches the Watchmen? I decided to go...

Technology, Linux, Self-hosting

VPN Musings

What's Up? I have been self-hosting stuff for years now. It started with Nextcloud once upon a time but by now there are a whole bunch of really useful services that run on my personal server. Said se...

Privacy, Technology, Linux

State of my Homelab in August 2025

It's been a while since I've last written about the stuff I self-host. Once upon a time I was simple-minded enough to believe that I would get some hardware, install some software that seems useful to...

Linux, Technology, Software, Self-hosting

Integrating analytics into my website

I've been blogging (on and off) for a while now. Originally, I just wanted a place to write down things I'd done, tutorials, idle thoughts, stuff like that. But since I'm also active on Mastodon (or r...

Privacy, Technology

Reproducible development environments with Nix

A while ago I became aware of Nix, NixOS and people who actually use it. I was intrigued by the proposition: configure your whole system declaratively so you can avoid configuration drift and combat i...

Linux, Technology

How To: Fix duplicated characters (and other artifacts) in your shell

A few days ago I started noticing strange behaviour of my shell. When typing commands or working with pasted ones, especially with tab completion, duplicated characters started showing up at the begin...

How To, Linux, Technology

How To: Choose a specific WiFi radio band on Linux

Sometimes I don't work from home but at my family's or a friend's place. Turns out the router at one of these places is terrible and can't reliably provide WiFi for my laptop sitting some 4 meters awa...

How To, Linux, Technology