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Lego Advent Calendar Every year, my lovely wife prepares a custom advent calendar for me. And, because I loved it as a kid and still do, she puts Lego in it. Everyday, I get a few more pieces and build a new model. At the last day I get the manual and build the actual set. It's great fun. This year's set was Set 60431: Space Explorer and Alien...

Using Mailpit as my default MTA Three years ago I blogged about Using Mailhog as my default MTA and that worked great for me. However, Mailhog development seems to be stalled and it had occasional problems with some perfectly fine mails. So when I stumbled across Mailpit, it was time to switch. The setup is basically the same. Install via AUR:...

House of Leaves I finished reading the “Hᴏᴜꜱᴇ of Leaves” some weeks ago. But today I thought about it again so here's a quick review. Hᴏᴜꜱᴇ of Leaves is all about meta levels. So it's fitting that I first heard about the book in a YouTube video, that talks about a level for classic Doom named MyHᴏᴜꜱᴇ.wad. If you have the nearly two hours, give...

Introducing: clipscreen Using a ginormous 49" widescreen monitor is awesome. Except for when you wanna share your screen in Google Meet or other tools. Sharing a 5120×1440 screen simply makes no sense. Of course you can opt to share a tab or window instead. But for work, I often need to switch between a terminal, my IDE and a browser. If I want...

Personal Server with Docker Compose Over the last couple of weeks I updated the server this blog and many more stuff is running on. I decided to move (nearly) everything to Docker. My previous setup was much more traditional. My server runs Debian Linux. A single Apache server provided different virtual hosts, the different services used...