As part of my quest to make things in my daily life more complicated I stumbled upon Paperless-ngx a few times already. This weekend I finally went ahead and set it up on my Synology NAS (In Docker …

Recently I had the use case that I needed to access a device which was located in the local network of my home A, from my computer located in the home B. If this would be a server or some kind of …

The new year has started and I was once again looking for a simple calendar to do some yearly planning. I've tried to find something for this use case for a while now and all the apps or templates …

I've recently written about an issue that I have been experiencing with Synology Drive on macOS for many months. These days when you are running into an issue with some app or any paid(!) or unpaid …

In a recent discussion on HN I've mentioned that self-hosting databases is still a bit of a pain compared to running one on a cloud hoster. Someone asked "why" so I thought I'll just quickly write it …

Update January 2026: This issue is being fixed in a future version of Synology Drive for macOS, see more details in this blog post. In the past few months I had a lot of weird issues with my new (and …

I've switched all my backups to Backblaze a while ago but I was pushing back the task of removing the old backups from Amazon Glacier. These were done through Arq Backup a while ago, from a different …

I've had these snippets in Tot for a while now, but then reminded myself that I've set up this blog to quickly share things for future-me too. Maybe they are useful for someone else stumbling upon …

Additionally to this blog I'm also contributing to another blog that I'm running with Manu called Annoying.Technology. It's based on Hugo, a static site generator, which makes it very easy to deploy …

A few weeks ago I visited Penang Island, a Malaysian island in the Strait of Malacca. I collected a few places that I've really enjoyed below. Penang Hill, fun to go up by the funicular. Explore the …