Uptime-kuma is a great solution to monitor the health of your services but I prefer Gatus. With Gatus you can define what you want to monitor declaratively, with Uptime-kuma you have to setup every...

Tailscale is great. I use it on basically every device I can put it on. With it I do not have to wory about which device is in which network or hosted on which cloud provider, I do not have to wor...

I have a Windows Desktop at home which I can access from anywhere in the world just via a browser. This gives me the ability to access a familiar desktop environment with all my personal data and a...

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Apple Mac computers are not known to be great gaming machines but make no mistake, the M-series Apple Silicon chips are more powerfull than you think. Benchmarks do not tell the full story. You hav...

Technology is changing continuously. This is how your coding workflow might evolve. It is a simplified version of my journey which certainly was and is not as straight forward as described here. ...

The usual process Whenevery I have a new idea that could be turned into a business I write it down. Some are just crappy but others stick in my mind. Most of these ideas are for digital products o...

Clash of Clans is a mobile game enjoyed by millions. But what is the goal? There are several metrics you could aim to maximize: Trophies - earned by winning attacks and defenses XP - gained b...

My homeserver supports a huge and growing collection of your favorite open source services. In order to use it you have to be familiar with using the terminal. If you prefer a graphical user interf...

What is a TLS certificate A TLS certificate is basically a file with various data like the doamins it is valid for, expiration date and most importantly a public key. This file is signed by a cert...