Pallet Wood Crafting Table One of my favorite YouTube channels is EpicUpCycling. If you don't know it, check it out. Jason builds amazing things out of pallet wood. I'm far from his skill, but he taught me not to throw away or just burn pallets. The wood might look shabby but with a bit of work you can make it into something beautiful.… ▶

Auto-Delete old Mails from GMail My inbox is a mess. While I manage to maintain a somewhat close to “Inbox Zero” at work, my personal GMail's inbox currently sits at 2,215 emails 8-O. A large amount of those mails are notifications of some kind, like from Github for example.… ▶

Old Game, New Clothes Back in university in 2003 we had to do a group project. I don't remember which course it was, but the assignment was pretty open. Basically as long as you coded something, you passed. I had just switched from my trusty Palm Tungsten E2 PDA to a Linux based… ▶

LAN Overview 2026 The last time that I blogged about my personal LAN setup was more than a decade ago. Meanwhile we moved into our own house and one of the major things we did, was adding Ethernet to every room. So let's have a look at the current state: This only shows the devices connected by Ethernet in detail. I added a few placeholders for the various devices connected by WiFi. Zigbee and Bluetooth devices are also omitted. I probably forgot something, too.… ▶

Appy - An AppImage Installer I nerd-sniped myself today. All I wanted to do was installing SuperSonic, a subsonic compatible music player written in go. One of their recommended ways to run it is an AppImage. An AppImage is basically an ELF executable which contains a SquashFS with the application and all dependencies it needs. It's a simple way to distribute a Linux binary.… ▶

Gmail Backup and notmuch GUI I am still working adding services to my NAS and one thing that was on my todo list for a while was a proper GMail backup. You never know when the powers that be deny you access to your mails for some obscure reasons. One guard is using my own domain. When I a can't use GMail anymore, I can just use my own mail server or a different provider. But it would suck losing all my old mail.… ▶

Password Hasher PWA Nearly two decades ago I wrote about a mechanism to have different passwords for every web site, without a central password manager storing your passwords. All you needed is an algorithm and a master password. I am still using the mechanism. But the original Firefox extension is abandoned, the Chrome extension that replaced it no longer works with recent Chrome changes and the Android App I was using is no longer working either.… ▶

Twenty Years… …of GitHub commits. And it seems this year, I beat the highscore from 2016 😲! Image made with GitHub Contributions Chart Generator… ▶

Wireless Gaming Headsets In the last years I always used a wired headset, because I didn't like the idea of having to recharge it and I am not moving away from my desk anyway. I am using a wired mouse and keyboard for the same reason. However there are two things that break on headsets. First, the faux leather disintegrates… ▶

My first NixOS Upgrade NixOS 25.11 was released recently. So it was time to see how easy an upgrade for my NAS would be. There are official upgrade instructions but I also found this reddit comment which gave a bit more advice. So here is what I did. First I updated the channel: # nix-channel --list nixos https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-25.05 # nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-25.11 nixos # nix-channel --list nixos https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-25.11 # nix-channel --up…… ▶