House of Leaves

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:...

Beer Bread So now that the bread making trend seems to be mostly over, I gave it a try. I googled for the “simplest bread to make without yeast” (because I didn't have yeast) and came across a recipe for “beer bread” which was perfect (because, of course I had beer). Turned out pretty good and was quick and easy to make. I see myself making this...

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...