So in the last quarter of 2023 I successfully moved from Inoreader to Nextcloud News for my news aggregation. This has worked very well for me for quite some time. But when I report self-hosting successes, I want to be honest and report the not so great experiences too.
So …
Having moved my personal projects from my selfhosted Gitlab instance to my selfhosted Forgejo instance, there was still the issue of replacing Gitlab-CI.
During this weekend I briefly went back to Jenkins, but I came to the conclusion that it is too involved for what I need. The boilerplate code …
As part of the Mastodon Servers Convenant that we apply for mastodon.nl, we need backups. Of-course we need backups.
So we have backups. Since June 2023 we've had offsite backups. This means the backup data is stored at another physical location and even with a different …
According to the receipts I've owned my Labelwriter 450 since 2015 and my Labelmanager PnP since 2018. Both are very good at producing labels for all sorts of uses. The only thing that has always annoyed me is the official Dymo software and its updates. It would change the interface …
As I was not as satisfied with proprietary solutions as I used to be, it was time to reconsider some past choices. Some of the choices have suited me very will for quite some time, but circumstances have changed so I'm open to other options.