Infrastructure

  • Starshield: Situational Awareness for the Star Labs StarBook
    Starshield: Situational Awareness for the Star Labs StarBook
    Going off-the-grid with an add-on for the Star Labs StarBook – and pretty much every other laptop – that adds situational awareness through various sensors and removes the need for privacy-invasive cloud services for things like GPS positioning and current temperature.
  • Ultra-Portable Data Center: Part Two
    Ultra-Portable Data Center: Part Two
    After over four years, I am simplifying the UPDC to make it more lightweight, more portable, and less in the way. This is a status update on the Ultra-Portable Data Center.
  • Updates 2024/Q3
    Updates 2024/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.
  • Minimalist and Functional Desktop Environment without Xorg
    Minimalist and Functional Desktop Environment without Xorg
    A brief write-up on how I’ve set up my Linux desktop environment to be minimal yet functional, to let me work and use the computer as efficiently as possible. All without using Xorg.
  • Updates 2024/Q2
    Updates 2024/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.
  • Run Your Privacy-Respecting AI on Gentoo Linux
    Run Your Privacy-Respecting AI on Gentoo Linux
    Would you like to have ChatGPT summarize YouTube videos for you, but without OpenAI knowing the lewd content that you’re watching, or paying them an arm and a leg for it? You can, and it’s actually fairly straightforward.
  • Peer-to-peer Git: Radicle Seed Node on OpenBSD
    Peer-to-peer Git: Radicle Seed Node on OpenBSD
    While Git is decentralized by design, in many cases it still depends on a classical server-client architecture. Many projects rely on GitHub, GitLab, or another centralized platform to host their repositories and thereby make them available to everyone. What if we could have Git, but without depending on any centralized servers at all, and instead use it peer-to-peer?
  • Updates 2024/Q1
    Updates 2024/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.
  • Goodbye Pushover, Hello Overpush
    Goodbye Pushover, Hello Overpush
    After over 11 years of being a loyal Pushover user, I have decided to give up on the service and run my own minimal, drop-in replacement that works the way I need it to.
  • Build Your Own Decentralized Dropbox with Syncthing
    Build Your Own Decentralized Dropbox with Syncthing
    In the world of file synchronization, most people are familiar with services like Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive. These centralized cloud solutions are convenient but come with privacy concerns and potential security risks. What if I told you that to synchronize files between individual devices, you don’t need the cloud™ ?