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Reconsidering website setup

Posted on di 03 december 2024 in website

I've had a tech blog website on and off over the last twenty years or so. I enjoy this very much. So this will stay.

A couple of years ago I moved to a static generated website. This is the part I am reconsidering. I've been using wordpress (again) on …


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Forgejo Forever

Posted on zo 01 december 2024 in software

About a year ago I started using Forgejo als an alternative to Gitlab for git hosting. It has really worked out wel for me. Feature wise I'm very happy, the product never gives me issues and support seems to be very well organised. With LTS and more progressive release schedules …


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Kubernetes migration for mastodon.nl progress report

Posted on za 23 november 2024 in mastodonnl

Progress was made to get mastodon running in kubernetes next to the virtual machines in my mastodon.nl test environment. There was more fiddling involved than anticipated, but things are moving forward.

The container based mastodon services are now using the same NFS storage, postgres database, redis and elasticsearch as …


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Getting started with GrapheneOS

Posted on wo 20 november 2024 in smartphone

Google Pixel 8a just booting up

Some time back I bought a Fairphone 3 and I installed /e/OS on it. While it was very usable for most part, there were things lacking too. I found it difficult to get updates at some point and I also missed the lack of Android Auto / Apple Carplay functionality …


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OpenBSD laptop running XFCE and Syncthing now

Posted on zo 03 november 2024 in runbsd

So there were some surprises in getting it to work, but with some digging in manuals and community support, my laptop is now running a desktop environment on top of OpenBSD 7.6.

During setup I ran into issues with errors concerning the number of open files. The annoying thing …


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