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I spent the last couple of weeks going through all my photographs I took in the last two years (and more) and edited my best shots. In this post I want to share what I learned, which tools I use and describe my workflow from taking the photos, over editing them, to publishing them on my webpage and social media. I am in no way an expert photographer, but I think it might be useful to those who are hobby photographers like me, interested in open source photo editing, or just curious. ...

Tor as the gateway to information The Tor network empowers people to access the uncensored internet from many places around the world. It provides a way for all of humanity to access information in a free and open manner. It includes many tools and options to circumvent censorship and even active measures taken against it. Tor bridges or the Snowflake browser add-on, for example, help people in censored countries connect to Tor even when the known entry node IPs are blocked by the state. ...

I had Bluesky on my radar for quite a while but never liked the way the platform was built. 1 But recently, I decided to give it a try. With this post, I want to share my experience automating my posts to Bluesky with you. (You can find my profile here.) I also wrote a post in which I explained how to automate posts to Pixelfed (a Fediverse platform), which is quite similar to this one. I might refer to that post from time to time because the process is quite similar. ...

This is the third post in a larger series about self-hosting with TrueNAS Scale. In this post, I want to show you how to set up the Nginx reverse proxy without relying on TrueCharts. I explained in the last post why I am moving away from them. In short: Support will be dropped. Nginx Proxy Manager Using the default charts in TrueNAS Scale, your application can only be exposed on a high port. Accessing your apps via such a weird port and without a proper domain isn’t cutting it. Is it? Therefore you can run a reverse proxy that manages TLS encryption and directs traffic for each subdomain to its respective app, without needing a special port in the URL. ...

This post is part two of a bigger series of blog posts about my home server and how you can make your own. In the first post I describe why I wanted to have a home server and the next one will be about how to set up the Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) without TrueCharts. You can find all posts under the Home-Server Project tag. Hardware ...

First of all, this is the first post of a larger series of blog posts I will dedicate to building my home server. You can find all of them under the tag Home-Server Project. There are many reasons someone would want to have a home server. In this post, I want to explain why I chose to build a home server and in the following ones, I will show you how I did it and how you can do it too. ...

My problem with posting to Pixelfed I started with Mastodon as my first account in the Fediverse. After a while, I found out about Pixelfed and created my account there. I kept using it for a while and even posted from time to time. My problem with posting to Pixelfed was the lack of a scheduler. I want to post regularly, but I do not want to login every day and make a post manually. This feature was even announced but never finished. Even today, this is not implemented. There is also a GitHub issue discussing this if your interest goes deeper. In the following post by Pixelfed, you can see the announcement. ...

In this post, I want to explain what the Fediverse is and why you should join it. I talk very little about the technical stuff, but this post is intended to be understood by anyone. Another post for the really technical topics is planned for the future. Where does the name come from? The name is a portmanteau of federation and universe. So the Fediverse is a federated universe. ...

What is Fedodo? First of all, to get everyone on the same page, I need to explain what Fedodo is and why I started developing it. With the rise of Mastodon, I became more and more interested in the ActivityPub protocol. I really like the idea of having a big decentralized platform that can compete with the walled gardens of big tech. The ActivityPub protocol seemed to be just right to achieve that. ...

I love using the browser and want to share my experience with you. In this post I will showcase Brave and its features. Privacy 🕵️ In my opinion privacy is the most important feature of a browser. A modern browser should protect you while you surfe the internet. Brave does have a lot of privacy features build in. And most important a lot more than Google Chrome which lacks a lot of privacy features. ...