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Nov 12, 2022

Jonathan Franzen on reading and literature

I’ve been on a bit of a Jonathan Franzen bender lately. The kickstart was a book club gathering about Crossroads for which I watched and read quite a few Franzen interviews. What really strikes a chord with me is not so much the specific Crossroads discussions in these interviews, but…

Literature

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Literature

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Sep 19, 2022

Using Windows OpenSSH Agent with Windows Terminal and Cygwin

I am back to running Windows Terminal + Cygwin, after a stint with MobaXterm. I blogged about it before. Why: Windows Terminal is pretty good: it doesn’t get in your way, and it’s fast (*very* important) Cygwin gives me acces to grep, awk, vim and much more. In the end…

Ssh Client

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Using Windows OpenSSH Agent with Windows Terminal and Cygwin
Using Windows OpenSSH Agent with Windows Terminal and Cygwin
Ssh Client

3 min read


May 16, 2022

WhatsApp should really fix these issues

WhatsApp is my most used app, but its development seems stagnant. Which is not always a bad thing for software, but WhatsApp could really improve some things, especially when those improvements seem trivial. Some wishes could even be classified as bugs: which they should really fix. In no particular order…

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Apr 8, 2022

Reaching 100 stars on GitHub: what I learned from putting code online

When the pandemic started in early 2020, I needed something to get my mind off things. Frustrated with most database form generation solutions I created Cruddiy and put it on GitHub. Two years later Cruddiy reached 100 stars on GitHub. Something which I did not expect. We could argue a…

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Reaching 100 stars on GitHub: what I learned from putting code online
Reaching 100 stars on GitHub: what I learned from putting code online

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Jan 5, 2022

Windows Terminal + Cygwin

I had been a happy WSL1 user for many years, but after switching laptops I more or less had to upgrade to WSL2. Which is the same thing but not really. The thing is, WSL2 startup times are annoyingly slow. And I hate slow. …

Cygwin

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Windows Terminal + Cygwin
Windows Terminal + Cygwin
Cygwin

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Jan 3, 2022

Bypassing Hetzner mail port block (port 25/465)

I recently switched my VPS from Linode to Hetzner. I got more CPU, RAM and storage for a couple of dollars less. Pretty good right? However it wasn’t after I migrated that I found out Hetzner blocks all outgoing port 25 and 465 traffic. At least for the first month…

Exim

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Bypassing Hetzner mail port block (port 25/465)
Bypassing Hetzner mail port block (port 25/465)
Exim

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Dec 30, 2021

Ten 2022 tool tips

Here’s a list of software tools I either started using this year or tools I think everyone should be using. Bitwarden The best password manager. Free if you like, or only $10 per year if you want to have a little bit more features or just want to support the project…

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Ten 2022 tool tips
Ten 2022 tool tips

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Dec 28, 2021

Migrating a LAMP VPS

I recently switched my LAMP virtual server to a different VPS provider. Here are the steps, for future reference. Mostly for myself, but maybe you — someone who came here from Google — can use this too. This should work on any small to medium sized VPS. Let’s go! Lower your DNS records TTL value. When…

Apache

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Apache

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Dec 10, 2021

Get Back part 2

I finished watching Get Back. Read my article about the first 30 minutes here. It’s safe to say this is hands down one of the best documentaries ever. I could not look away. Truly amazing. In between watching this over the last week I accumulated quite a few articles (from…

Beatles

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Beatles

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Nov 30, 2021

The Beatles: Get Back

I am only 30 minutes in to the 8 hour long — highly anticipated — Peter Jackson documentary and I already have many thoughts. I need to get these out before further viewing, because I have a feeling I will change my mind many times over during viewing. Let’s go…

Beatles

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Beatles

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