Florian Marending

23 Aug 2026 Self hosting maps PMTiles are delightfully boring For an upcoming project, I’m going to need a world map in a web app to display location data.

08 Aug 2026 Apple M1 vs Hetzner CAX21 Benchmarking homeserver hardware I’m in the process of migrating my VPS to a MacBook Air M1 running Asahi in my closet.

23 Jun 2026 Asahi Linux on a Macbook Air M1 Setting up a headless server I’ve been wanting to move my server from a VPS hosted at Hetzner to my own hardware for a while.

17 May 2026 Towards approachable observability with wide events A tragedy in four acts I like to think about how to get operational insights into the services I host.

11 May 2026 Exploring the Variant type in Parquet Let's get shredding Observability has been on my mind again lately.

14 Apr 2026 ePaper air quality dashboard Should have just used a kindle I’ve been collecting CO2 concentration, humidity, temperature and other properties of our apartment’s air for some time now.

22 Mar 2026 My first firefox extension Personalize your software I wouldn’t say I have an addictive personality, but I do spend too much time on YouTube.

18 Jan 2026 Storing SSH and encryption keys in 1Password My laptop is not a one-stop shop for attackers I like to keep my hosting setup simple.

14 Jan 2026 Understanding passkeys And improving my online security in the process I’ve been meaning to look into passkeys for a while now.

06 Jan 2026 Visual regression tests for my website Gaining confidence in refactorings This website is built using Astro to generate static pages.

02 Jan 2026 Using launchd on macOS to run periodic tasks Surveilling myself Some months ago I had the idea to record some data about my computer use for later analysis.

01 Jan 2026 jour: An opinionated lab journal A project report Years ago I stumbled across a blog post on lab notebooks.

30 Dec 2025 Reflective: A simple self-hosted image gallery A project report Let me take you back to around 6 years ago.

25 Oct 2025 Cheap and simple service monitoring An ode to updown.io I’m hosting a bunch of software on a VPS.

19 Jul 2025 Rust tracing to ClickHouse This shouldn't be this hard I don’t like the OpenTelemetry ecosystem.

18 Jul 2025 Exploring LLMs A skeptic reconsiders I’ve been a long-time skeptic of large language models and their applicability to intellectual work.

16 Jul 2025 ClickHouse for analytics workloads A third contender emerges I looked at the performance of SQLite and DuckDB for analytics workloads in this note.

17 Jun 2025 Hosting my side projects the easy way Choosing boring technology I’m writing a bunch of software for myself as a hobby.

12 Jun 2025 Should I shoot JPEG or RAW?

08 Jun 2025 go: An opinionated bookmark aggregator A project report At work I tend to juggle a lot of links to different tools, confluence pages and other resources.