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Getting started with Woodpecker CI

Posted on zo 18 februari 2024 in devops

Having moved my personal projects from my selfhosted Gitlab instance to my selfhosted Forgejo instance, there was still the issue of replacing Gitlab-CI.

During this weekend I briefly went back to Jenkins, but I came to the conclusion that it is too involved for what I need. The boilerplate code …


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How I do offsite backups for mastodon.nl

Posted on vr 26 januari 2024 in fediverse

As part of the Mastodon Servers Convenant that we apply for mastodon.nl, we need backups. Of-course we need backups.

Rsync at first

So we have backups. Since June 2023 we've had offsite backups. This means the backup data is stored at another physical location and even with a different …


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Using my Dymo label printers running Linux

Posted on zo 21 januari 2024 in desktop

According to the receipts I've owned my Labelwriter 450 since 2015 and my Labelmanager PnP since 2018. Both are very good at producing labels for all sorts of uses. The only thing that has always annoyed me is the official Dymo software and its updates. It would change the interface …


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Home computing goals for 2024

Posted on vr 12 januari 2024 in desktop

As I was not as satisfied with proprietary solutions as I used to be, it was time to reconsider some past choices. Some of the choices have suited me very will for quite some time, but circumstances have changed so I'm open to other options.

Switching to more open solutions …


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Introductie hub.mastodon.nl

Posted on do 28 december 2023 in fediverse

Screenshot hub.mastodon.nl website

Vandaag heb ik de eerste echte post geplaatst op de mastodon.nl hub. Mastodon.nl specifieke informatie zal hier worden verzameld, maar het start nu met een blogpost over de begroting voor 2024. Het idee is om hier gebruikerstips, -handleidingen en bijvoorbeeld informatie over donaties en bestedingen een plek te …


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