I switched from Docker to Podman in my homelab back in 2023, and settled on using Quadlets. I’ve been using this system for about three years, but it’s a bit of a hassle to have to convert any and ...

I’ve been pondering whether to move away from Fastmail - not because it’s a bad service, but because of where the servers are hosted. I’ve weighed a bunch, but for now I’m staying with Fastmail. Th...

I’ve been searching for an email client. Well, more than an email client - a piece of software (or interconnected pieces) that can handle email, calendaring and contacts - often referred to as a Pe...

ACME SSL Certificates, made in Italy

Ikea Starkvind and Home Assistant We recently bought an Ikea Starkvind Air Purifier, which supports Zigbee. I wanted to find out what I could do with it from within Home Assistant, possibly automa...

My static blog to-do list kept growing, so I decided to do something about it. I’ve switched from Minimal Mistakes to Chirpy as a theme, because it offers built-in dark/light theme support and has...

I’m one of the (main) sysadmins of a forum running phpBB. It also uses Plausible, a self-hosted web analytics tool, so we have some grasp where our users come from. My main focus is dealing with t...

When we moved to our new home, we looked for a new place to exercise. While we had been spoiled with a gym at the end of our old street, our new location required a half-hour commute, which quickly...

For $reasons there was a Citrix Workspace installation on my partner’s computer. This installation hadn’t been used in forever, and I did not manage to get rid of it either (uninstalling would fail...

I recently activated IPv6 on my Netcup VPS, and in the process of setting it up on all my LXCs I noticed that for “reasons” the IPv6 default route would vanish after starting Docker (switching it a...