witcher's blog

It’s been quite some time since I’ve set up my own server and NAS at home.

My web server is running on an OpenBSD VM that had to be upgraded from 7.7 to 7.8, but it turned out that the default OpenBSD drive labels created with disklabel(8)’s -A option made the /usr partition on the 16GB big drive too small to automatically update

Last year I built myself a Lily58 split keyboard after already having built a crkbd before.

My GPG key expired last month so I renewed it.

Since finally moving out of “shared housing” and into “my own” apartment I’ve been thinking about finally setting up a homeserver, something I’ve been wanting to do for quite a few years now.

After thinking about this for a few months now, I have made up my mind.

It’s been a few years since I’ve used Reddit myself, but through Louis Rossmann’s videos I’ve been following the current drama a bit.

Around half a year ago, I wrote an article about Password Managers.

With Twitter’s demise and Mastodon’s rise in popularity, I must admit I’ve been feeling drawn towards Mastodon, even though I deleted my Twitter account shortly before this whole fiasco began.

While the basic technique used in this article is still used, the exact implementation has since changed and is now available here: https://git.sr.ht/~witcher/backup Quite a while ago I set up a backup solution that works for me but isn’t ideal.

I’ve had a Nextcloud instance for about a year now and I was always wondering why the Nextcloud client on my workstation starts up so slowly, while it doesn’t even take a second on my laptop.

Speedrun.com is the website for all your speedrunning needs.

Soju is an IRC bouncer that is easy to host and use.

As stated in a recent blog post about Using a OnePlus 5 in 2022, I had a few issues and decided to choose using a different, newer phone.

Thanks to this, I decided to prepare rss-email for a 0.2.0 release by replacing Diesel with sqlx, a crate that enables compile-time checked SQL queries.

I wanted to give a quick update on my current situation and why it is that I’m absent so much, both in FOSS and in private.

End of 2017 was once again the time to get a new phone.

Signal just recently released a new update adding stories, akin to the feature of the same name found in WhatsApp et al.

I’ve been annoyed by the state of smartphones lately, and one of the top contenders in “Most Annoying” is instant messaging.

I just released the first version of rss-email, 0.1.0, a little program I’ve written about before.

About 1 ½ months ago, I published a post on my microblog about GitHub Copilot and why I decided to leave GitHub for good, switching to SourceHut completely.

With the launch of GitHub Copilot and the problems that it has, as outlined in the blog post, I decided to pull all my projects from my GitHub profile, leaving only forks and projects I’m a maintainer of behind.

Recently, I published a blog post on password managers, saying I’m looking to switch again.

Since I’m building and publishing my website via the Sourcehut CI anyways, I figured I could just publish it to Sourcehut pages as well.

Like I mentioned in my post about communication channels, E-Mail is a low volume communication channel that I value a lot, which is why I want to remind and urge everyone to send me E-Mails instead of sending a short instant message to me.

I’m thinking about changing password managers yet again… Why?

Disclaimer At the time of writing I’m still a student, have only relatively minor experience with working in companies and am in no way a trained project manager.

I updated my public key to have a subkey for signing git commits.

Recently I got myself a Nextcloud instance, and it’s been absolutely comfy.

Around September 2021 I built a new PC.

Just when I thought the semesters full of horrible Java lectures stopped, another semester gets thrown my way with yet more lectures specifically about Java.

I started working on a thing that, for now, I’ve called rss-email.

The microblog was an alternative blog listing on my website that was meant to only feature short "throaway" posts.

Keyboard journey Recently, I got sick of my Anne Pro 2 keyboard, which is a 60% keyboard I’ve owned since the end of 2020.

Previous state of the server I’ll be honest: my server was a mess.

This post was written in 2021 and is only present for archival purposes.

This post was written in 2021.

After taking quite a break on working on my website I decided to finally add pagination support for the blog on my website, which you are currently reading.

Introduction to mbsync mbsync is an alternative to offlineimap.

Introduction Up until now I’ve been working on my sites in pure HTML; the only tool I used had been ssg to convert the little “wiki” I put op on GitHub to HTML and use it on my website.

msmtp msmtp is a commandline smtp client that reads the message body from stdin. configuration You need to first install msmtp with the package manager of your choice.

offlineimap offlineimap is a commandline util allowing you to sync a local repository with an online one via the E-Mail syncing protocol IMAP. configuration After installing offlineimap you will want to create a config file.

This post was published in 2020 and is only present for archival purposes.