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This is a follow-up to my post Buy, Own, Stream - The “Rip, Mix, Burn” of 2026 from earlier this month.

This month marks my eleventh year with Apple Music.

I have somewhat of a pendulum going on between iOS and GrapheneOS.

It’s been a while since I posted my last update on my current hardware and software setup, and there’s a good reason for that.

This is probably one of the more esoteric posts on my blog — I’m usually very technical and rational.

I recently switched to Brave after getting sick of trying to configure media playback to work in a reasonable way on Firefox.

Over Christmas, I decided to finally tackle learning Elixir.

Over the Christmas holidays, I somewhat fell into a rabbit hole.

It’s been more than 10 years for me writing about self-hosted infrastructure and systems that care about privacy, yet I have kept using Apple Smartphones for this whole time.

Tesla’s Wall Connector (3rd Gen) does not have a integration in the Tesla App and while the cost for your monthly charge can be displayed as part of the car’s charging details, it does not exactly do a great job of displaying details and stats.

Now that we have our basic mail infrastructure working, we will add support for rspamd and enable DKIM signing of our messages.

In this part of the FreeBSD mail server, we build on the recent two posts where we set up the IMAP and SMTP and extend our configuration to support virtual users, which means that we don’t autenticate with system users anymore and, alongside, hand over the

This is a follow-up post to the initial FreeBSD mail server article that I posted a few weeks ago.

I run mail servers for many years now, but I was never brave enough to set up one from scratch for my daily mail.

Since I wanted to verify whether or not Spatial Audio works on the Apple TV HD (non-4k) and did not find any answer, I tried it myself.

In the past fifteen years, I have used Macs and macOS became my operating system of choice.

I started my blog as a WordPress application roughly 8 years ago.

I just recognized that this is the first ever post on CSS I do here.

Most NodeJS apps consist of hundreds of .js files which are included wherever needed using require.

I’m running a Docker host on a Hetzner Cloud server.

In this series of screencasts I will create a Fever-compatible API layer for Nextcloud News, since I want to use this as my primary news reader.

Notes, besides photos, are the pieces of data I care most about.

In this little series I’d like to show you how to set up a blog, or in fact any website, using Hugo, a static site generator written in Go.

For some reasons I needed a Linux installation on my NAS. byhve is a lightweight virtualization solution for FreeBSD that makes that easy and efficient.

While building my new NAS, I came across the question how to install a fileserver based on Samba on FreeBSD.

I’m working on an application where I use Docker and docker-compose to orchestrate a NodeJS container running my backend and a MongoDB container for my database.

I recently started to convert all of my movies from MKV to MP4.

I’m currently working on a project in NodeJS.

In this article I will show you how to set up a Firefox Sync Server as a Docker container.

iCloud Keychain has always been a love-hate relationship for me.

For some months now I’m running a private GitLab server.

For a project I was working on, I had a folder structure full of images and wanted to compress them to a specific maximum resolution in-place while retaining the aspect ratio using ImageMagick.

In the last days I tinkered a bit with things in Git that I haven’t tried yet.

I maintain an archive of videos, especially documentaries from public media libraries from tv channels etc. on my NAS.

Even though there are like one million guides on how to secure macOS properly, I decided to throw in my 5c on this topic.

During a setup change I had to temporarily move my incoming mailserver to Gmail and while I am now back in my own mail server, I again had this major headache of configuring the my DNS (using BIND) because I always forget the dots in the end of CNAME and…

In this article I will show you how to set up your own RSS feed aggregator with sync support for many third-party clients through the Fever API as a replacement for Apple News/Google News/Feedly.

As it turns out, the Apple Time Capsule only uses SMB protocol version 1 and NTLM for authentication.

In this screencast we’re exploring the way Git saves files, directories commits and tags in it’s internal data structure, how we can inspect them and how they related to each other.

Current macOS versions are weird… Often when I connect my MacBook Pro to the two screens on my desk, the wallpaper on one of that guys is either gone or changed to a different one.

In this article I will show you how I set up my photo synchronization using Nextcloud.

UPDATE Apr, 17 2018: Update imapsync to run as standalone docker container to make deployment easier.

In this article I will describe how I set up my Nextcloud instance aiming to replace iCloud Drive.

Introduction Some years ago I already played with ownCloud, trying to set up my personal cloud and get rid of third party services for keeping my stuff in sync across multiple devices.

macOS has the osascript command line tool that allows you to run embedded AppleScript right from within shell scripts.

Just as a short update: Starting from the newest AirPods update, they also finally work as a headset on the Mac.

I have so many accounts for various web-based solutions, I barely can remember a few.

I wanted to expose a single jail of my FreeBSD NAS to a network of a client via OpenVPN while it’s reachable both from my network and from the clients’ network.

After finishing with the hardware and software parts of my new NAS, I decided to append another little project which is aimed to provide a simplified control panel for macOS in the menu bar on the upper right of the screen.

UPDATE 2018-06-02: I’ve created a new version of this article called “Securing macOS” available here: https://www.davd.io/securing-macos/