Watchy: Opensource/OpenHardware Watch – things to watch for

I compiled this document because I noticed there’s quite a lot of quirks and not a lot of documentation to this honest great little hardware platform. There ...

How to set up a BcacheFS Filesystem, and what is it?

You might’ve heard of BcacheFS before, but you might’ve not been entirely sure what it is, and why it is suddenly showing up everywhere. Or, you might alread...

How to use AI and machine learning to accelerate tasks and safely get work done

You’ve likely seen the large influx of new AI/ML tools, but how do you use these effectively, and safely? This post hopes to help you understand the benefits...

Understanding Motor Oil Viscosity: A Dive into SAE Standards

(Just a disclaimer: This blog was generated by ChatGPT, after a lot of prompting and helping it say the right things.)

Managing and Merging Local Changes in Git: A Practical Guide

(Just a disclaimer: This blog was generated by ChatGPT, after a lot of prompting and helping it say the right things.)

Humanity and Consensus, and the myth of collective understanding

(Just a disclaimer: This blog was generated by ChatGPT, after a lot of prompting and helping it say the right things.)

How to enable Streaming for your Mastodon server if you use JWilder’s Nginx Proxy

A guest blog written by ChatGPT! After it helped me figure out how to get the config of nginx-proxy fixed; apparently it knows about it so it could give me d...

How to unf*ck Mastodon

Hello! If you found this page for a reason, I feel sorry for you. There’s quite a lot of reasons and ways that Mastodon can break, so I figured I’d start a l...

Creamy Asparagus soup and variations thereof

Lethally tasty asparagus soup:

How to use your Windows Hello IR Camera as PAM auth in Linux and KDE/Gnome with Howdy

I recently acquired a new HP Elitebook 835 G8, and it came with one of those Windows Hello infrared projector + sensors in the screen bezel that map your fac...

Tuning the Renault Twingo GT 2010 D4FT engine

The Renault Twingo may not be the first car that comes to mind when you think about souped up engines and fun times, but rather surprisingly, Renault seems t...

The Linux Sysadmin Compendium

This should hopefully grow with time.

Quiche Lorraine; A great base for many quiches

Quiche is a great way to easily make a hearty pie that almost anyone will love.

Containers, Jails, and chroots; An introduction

You probably heard of one of these by now. It’s a hard to avoid piece of jargon when you dabble even the tiniest amount in IT, and everyone seems to be reall...

SELinux; How it works and a cheat sheet

SELinux. Many probably heard of it, some may have ‘run into it’ and disabled it, but few actually seem to take the effort to properly set it up.

How to set up a Mastodon server in Docker

With the sale of Twitter, a lot of people have been looking for alternatives and backup options. Due to humanity finally seeming to have gotten sick of the p...

A weird truffle-creamcheese-tomato-mincemeat pasta sauce I came up with

Random weird recipe I came across while experimenting in the kitchen with leftovers I had.

Upgrading Postgres between major revisions, the easy way

When you look at the documentation for the pg_update command, you quickly realize that there’s a lot more to it than just an in-place upgrade, especially if ...

Downgrading the kernel and fixing kernel modules after an incompatible new version in Fedora/Centos/RHEL

It happens quite often that a kernel module such as ZFS isn’t quite up to speed with the latest Linux kernels, and a distro such as Fedora decides to go ahea...

Chicken, creamcheese and spinach

Another simple and fast recipe that I like to make sometimes is Chicken, creamcheese and spinach.

Fun things to try with your Flipper Zero (and wifi devboard)

last update: 14-10-2022

The dragonhive/dergnz web stack

Setting up this website reminded me how happy I am with my current automation and web stack.

The Garden & Household Compendium

There are a lot of nifty tricks out there, so I started collecting them.

Time to finally build a website

Finally, a website! No longer a 503 but something actually tangible, thanks to the wonders of Jekyll and the minimal-mistakes theme.

A simple chicken curry recipe