Journal


Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship.

- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851)

  • Updates 2023/Q4
    Updates 2023/Q4
    Project updates from the previous consecutive three-month period, with info on the current status of my projects and next steps. You might find this interesting in case you’re using any of my open source tools.
  • An Overview of Privacy-Focused, Decentralized Instant Messengers
    An Overview of Privacy-Focused, Decentralized Instant Messengers
    An overview of privacy-focused, decentralized, open source alternatives to popular non-free spyware instant messengers like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Viber, Facebook Messenger, Skype, and Apple iMessage.
  • NEVER click on a link that looks like that
    NEVER click on a link that looks like that
    Every time one of my posts on this journal ends up somewhere on Reddit, Twitter Nostr or Hacker News, lots of people seem to be irritated by the site’s URL. Hence, let me do a quick introduction into what’s called Punycode, and why I’m using this domain name.
  • How Do You Trust That Your Personal Machine Is Not Compromised?
    How Do You Trust That Your Personal Machine Is Not Compromised?
    A while ago I stumbled upon a simple yet surprisingly interesting question on Hacker News, which seemed to have some people (re-)evaluate their current setups and look for ways to improve. Hence I figured that it might be an interesting subject to cover.
  • Fitness Tracking for the Privacy-Conscious
    Fitness Tracking for the Privacy-Conscious
    An introduction and review of the Garmin Instinct 2X Solar Tactical smartwatch.
  • Updates 2023/Q3
    Updates 2023/Q3
    Project updates from the current consecutive three-month period, with info on the current status of my projects and next steps. You might find this interesting in case you’re using any of my open source tools.
  • Automatically Upgrade SSH Connections to Mosh when Available
    Automatically Upgrade SSH Connections to Mosh when Available
    A quick and dirty trick on how to automatically upgrade SSH connections to Mosh when available.
  • Anytype: Notion, but Open Source
    Anytype: Notion, but Open Source
    Ten years ago, the internet was flooded with so called note-taking apps, from Microsoft’s Notes and Google’s Keep, over Evernote, all the way down to open source software like Standard Notes and even my own project Paperwork. Within the last few years however it seems like all of these apps became basically irrelevant thanks to one silent killer.
  • Updates 2023/Q2
    Updates 2023/Q2
    Project updates from the current consecutive three-month period, with info on the current status of my projects and next steps. You might find this interesting in case you’re using any of my open source tools.
  • Updates 2023/Q1
    Updates 2023/Q1
    Project updates from the current consecutive three-month period, with info on the current status of my projects and next steps. You might find this interesting in case you’re using any of my open source tools.