The Hidden Blog

Admittedly that sounds a bit weird but using the people / blogs / resources you are following in your RSS reader is actually a great filter for narrowing down the search on a given topic.

In the recent days YouTube decided to put some Playstation Portable videos in my feed and it got me wondering in which box mine was collecting dust and what's the current state of custom firmwares.

A few years ago I've released Birdfeeder, my (back then) Twitter bookmark manager.

For managing my music I rely on beets to keep my library tidy.

I've been using Swarm / Foursquare and previously also Gowalla (The original and the sadly failed relaunch a few years ago) since 2012.

Editing Grafana dashboards ~is~ was always such a hassle, if you decide to edit the JSON you'll have to do the "Delete" / "Import" dance in the Grafana UI, or if you decide to edit in the UI you have outdated files in your repository and you'd have to dow…

Over the past years I've accumulated a bunch of self-hosted software on my server (Miniflux, Plex, Radarr, Sonarr and the usual suspects).

As part of my quest to make things in my daily life more complicated I stumbled upon Paperless-ngx a few times already.

Recently I had the use case that I needed to access a device which was located in the local network of my home A, from my computer located in the home B.

The new year has started and I was once again looking for a simple calendar to do some yearly planning.

I've recently written about an issue that I have been experiencing with Synology Drive on macOS for many months.

In a recent discussion on HN I've mentioned that self-hosting databases is still a bit of a pain compared to running one on a cloud hoster.

Update January 2026: This issue is being fixed in a future version of Synology Drive for macOS, see more details in this blog post.

I've switched all my backups to Backblaze a while ago but I was pushing back the task of removing the old backups from Amazon Glacier.

I've had these snippets in Tot for a while now, but then reminded myself that I've set up this blog to quickly share things for future-me too.

Additionally to this blog I'm also contributing to another blog that I'm running with Manu called Annoying.Technology.

A few weeks ago I visited Penang Island, a Malaysian island in the Strait of Malacca.

After rendering my latest video I realized that my trusted Intel Mac Mini from 2018 is slowly getting closer to retirement.

This weekend I've finally sat down to create a new video for my YouTube channel Infrequent Updates again.

A few months ago I bookmarked Arun's post about Shanghai.