This is my personal blog where I post all kinds of code snippets, small tools and ‘how tos’, mostly about stuff I have in mind recently or a game I currently play. If you want to know more, see the About me page.

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2026

June

Milky☆Subway

well, not exactly a normal anime recommendation but close. Still so different that even people who normally skip anime stuff can give it a look. Really, a small piece of man made …

May

May Days - blog, linux, codeberg

Another small this and that post. Blog Stuff I decided to remove all web fonts from my blog. At the end it was nearly 500Kb just for a slightly different font. Well, I used …

April

A local epub eBook server for my xteink

As I wrote before, recently I got myself a XTEINK X4, even the blogpost is not that old I got it a little more than a week ago. After using it active several days I can really say …

New gadget; Xteink X4 E-Ink reader flashed with Papyrix

I mean isn’t it a totaly adult and viable decision to directly buy a tech thing after you read a bunch of blogs writing about it? Yeah, absolutely :) And as some of the …

April this and that…

Minor Blog Extensions First I added asciinema support to better show some console stuff. ASCIInema allows to record a terminal session in text and replay it as text. So no wasteful …

FZF+Fish are great in SSH-Completion

What it does… As said, fzf is my go to for great shell search and tui’s. Basically add a fuzzy search to everyting you can imagine. But this is not what I want to …

March

Pockethernet BER and ID Plugs

This short Article is in addition to my Pockethernet V2 Review I posted last year December. At the time of writing the original Article there was a announced BER Loop Adapter and …

February

Kara-Tiles - A Kara Keep New Tab Page Addon

What is Karakeep? Well, I’ll write an extra blog article about it soon, so in short: It’s a self-hosted open-source bookmark manager with a cloud-hosted option …

Good Linux compatible USB-C Travel Hub with PD

Not an lenghy Article, just posting my findings for whoever may need it. The Hardware: i-tec USB-C 4K Metall Nano Docking Station Named by the bulky name i-tec USB-C 4K Metall Nano …

January

Signals encrypted Storage on Linux Desktops!

signal on Linux offer the way to store your encryption key in your system walled (encrypted) or local as plain-text unencrypted. Actually if you use a full disk encryption a clean …

Tuxedo Laptop Battery acting strange - replaced

Currently I use as my productivity working device a Tuxedo Laptop, the Infinity book pro 14". It is about 1.5yrs old and started acting up in december when it comes to …

Pixelfed Integration for hugo based /photos Page

Recently we had the Digital Independence Day what better Reason could one have to rethink how I use published photos. I actually wanted to integrate them better into my blog …

2025

December

Win git - Could not read from remote repository.

Fixing Git Clone SSH Agent on Windows Last days I run Git on Windows for a quick upload of something, tried cloning the private repo over SSH, and it bombed out with a permission …

Star Citizen 4.5 Vulkan Crash on Start-Up

With today’s released Patch 4.5, Star Citizen switched to using the Vulkan renderer by default. This is a big step forward. But unfortunately, for some players, the game …

RAM Prices cryout…

Uhhm sometimes you realize how lucky you been buying your PC Upgrade at the right time. Shortly after Gamescom 2025 I upgraded my home desktop to new CPU and Motherboard also …

WinSCP with 1password SSH-Agent

My Setup and the Problem I use Linux on my main work laptop, where remote access is effortless: I can SSH with Kitty’s remote edit kitten or mount remotes via KDE Dolphin. …

Pockethernet V2 Test

Pockethernet 2: Hands-On Test of the Revived Network Tester Some years ago, at a event, I could try the original Pockethernet V1. At this time I owned a bigger Tester with display, …

November

UniFi Thunderbold 10G RJ45 Adapter

Got one Ubiquiti Unifi 10G Ethernet Adapter, model UACC-Adapter-RJ45-USBC-10GE. In the past, I’ve mostly got StarTech adapters for 10G Copper, but right now they’re …

Dynamic OpenGraph og:images in Hugo

To be honest, the switch from a classic CMS to Hugo had a steep learning curve at first, but Hugo is incredible. Even though we have static pages, you can do a lot of …

MacOS better ip info in terminal

MacOS Better ip info in terminal One particular painful point, coming from linux, was the ip command in the Terminal. The Default MacOS ifconfig command is very - well let’s …