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Migrating 6 years of analytics data from Fathom Lite (SQLite) to Umami v3 (PostgreSQL) with a Python script that expands hourly aggregates into individual event rows.

If you’re running a self-hosted Forgejo instance and want to use GitHub Actions, you might have noticed that Forgejo defaults to using data.forgejo.org for action resolution instead of GitHub or your local mirrors.

Introduction Yes!

2025 is the year of Artificial Intelligence.

Background Over time I’ve accumulated quite a bit of hardware for my homelab.

It’s what every sysadmin dreads and prepares for: a failed hard drive.

I’ve owned this Toyota Yaris new from 2010.

Allowing comments on your website is scary.

In previous posts I discussed some Asahi Linux specific setup to make Asahi Linux play nice with my MacbookPro M1 Max.

The MacbookPro has a high pixels-per-inch screen, or as Apple likes to call it, a Liquid Retina XDR display.

I’m a big Linux fan.

This is my Now page where I share what I’m up to right now.

The stock AMD Wraith cooler on my linux box was getting loud.

Update 2025-09-08 It was brought to my attention by several readers that these instructions are outdated and no longer working.

I love Google Photos for its easy of use and features.

For a while now I’ve had a single 3TB WD Green in my NAS to store local Borg backups before syncing them to Google Drive a Hetzner Storage Box.

I run Debian on all my servers.

Yesterday the first 10TB recertified drive tested all okay.

It’s been almost 18 months since I purchased a, let’s be honest here, beat-up Volkswagen Golf Cabrio from 1994.

You can read more on my homelab and datahoarding problem here and here.

I like my colorschemes.

And now for something completely different: I’m going to fix up 1994 Volkswagen Golf III Cabrio at home.

Please read my previous post on my DIY NAS here: 1 and 2. 10 gigabit.

Please read my previous post on my DIY NAS here: https://www.devroom.io/2020/02/28/building-a-diy-home-server-with-freenas A brief history In May 2019 I decided it was time to jump on the NAS bandwagon.

Many less-tech savvy people I know have a robot vacuum cleaner.

I like tinkering with electronics and one awesome way of doing that is by repairing things that are broken.

This week our Philips TV died.

This post is specific to Drone CI, but is probably easily adoptable to other CI systems, like Gitlab.

This article contains some background to why I wrote this plugin.

A git submodule, in its essence, is a reference to another git repository.

Keep reading!

Today I was logged in on my FreeNAS server to setup Duplicity backups.

Last week I started a new repair project: a 42" Philips TV.

Building a quality phono preamp is still one of the joys of the audio electronics enthusiast.

Recently I got an email asking me about how I classify bugs and issues and how the different categories for a bug’s severity, like Critical and Major can be explained clearly.

After watching The Signal Path for some I decided to treat myself to a classic 34401A 6½ digit multimeter.

This unit sold from 2012-2015 as the top-of-the line AV Network Receiver from Denon.

Another lucky find: Rotel RB-970BX Power Amplifier with one defective channel.

As a developer, more than anything, you copy and paste things.

Note: I’ve moved away from the solution outlined in this post.

Bitcoin was introduced in 2008 and has gained much popularity since then.

The venerable Marantz PM80 Mk2.

Today I’ve been fighting to get our test suite to run against a newly delivered Oracle 12 database.

I love music.

This is a re-post of my article over at Kabisa’s The Guild.

A classic 1989 Denon PMA 720a Integrated Amp that made a bang and wont’t turn on.

A Marantz SR5200 receiver with a non-working front-right channel.

Log of diagnosing and repairing a Denon PMA560 Stereo integrated amplifier.

You may have recently read Website Obesity by Maciej Cegłowski, as featured on Hacker News.

Safari is a great browser.