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A year ago, I migrated my blog from wordpress to static assets created with harpjs. It was fun and I learned a lot by using technology like LESS and jade which I had not gotten into before.

I ran the blog using harp as application server using pm2 for service and cluster management at first, so publishing was as easy as writing on my laptop, checking into source control and updating the “working copy” on the server. I had some problems with that as my server got unresponsive for other services I run there and it was rather obvious that node (or better stated pm2) ate a lot of cpu. After trying to work around that issue by reducing other services cpu- and memory-usage (I switched my web server from apache to lighttpd and eventually nginx in those attempts) I decided to compile my blog with harp and server static assets only.

Last week RTJolla, one of my main sources for information about Jolla on twitter has died - probably not forever, but maybe for a longer period of time.

I am not big fan of creating listings and searches on twitter, I just want to read my timeline, so I created a twitter to account to jump in until RTJolla returns. This bot has been created for my personal usage will retweet everything it finds about Jolla and SailfishOS - the operating system powering the Jolla smartphone.

Vor ein paar Tagen ging in meinem Rasperry Pi die SD-Karte kaputt und ich hatte die Wahl: Nochmal openELEC mit XBMC aufspielen oder etwa anderes probieren. Wer sich die Überschrift sorgfätig angesehen hat, ahnt schon: Ich habe mich für etwas anderes entschieden!

Nach kurzer Recherche habe ich mich für den Plex Media Server entschieden und diesen auf meiner MSI Windbox installiert - es gibt im AUR en Paket für den Server (ist nicht Open Source), der Client, das sogenannte “Plex Home Theater” ist frei und in den Archlinux Standard-Repositories enthalten. Für das Raspberry Pi gibt es mit rasPlex eine auf openELEC aufsetzende Distribution, die sehr einfach und schnell erlaubt, einen Client für den Plex Server aufzusetzen. Schön fand ich dabei auch, dass ich die SD-Karte nicht manuell anpassen musste, damit die Partitionen sich der Größe der Karte anpassen - das erledigt rasPlex beim ersten Booten automagisch!

It’s probably Jolla’s fault, because following my purchase of this beautiful phone from Finland I started to using more software created in Europe.

I have recently moved my online storage from Dropbox to Younited which is a service provided by F-Secure, a Finnish company known for data security software and services (the first ever anti-virus software I used on a DOS-powered computer was f-prot…). Younited is pretty straightforward and works much like other services you might use. There are clients available for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS. There’s even a client for Linux, so I can sync folders from my Archlinux-powered Laptop at home! Younited offers just 5GB of online storage for free, but purchasing more space is cheap compared to Dropbox or box.com - 200GB are ~75 Euros per year.

In February of 2012 I set up an instance of ownCloud, an selfhostable cloud-solution written in php. It was a good feeling to have it around to store my files, calendars and contacts not needing some service provider I knew too little about to be able to judge if they are trustworthy - like Google, Dropbox, Box.net or Zumo Drive.

When I made the switch to Lumia in December 2012 and shortly afterwards giving Windows a new chance on my laptop, it was easy to switch all of the things I had in my ownCloud to Skydrive and other services provided by Microsoft (yes and sorry, but I consider Microsoft more trustworthy than Google or Apple). All other things just would not work well on a Windows Phone, while Skydrive was well integrated into the operating system.