Open source

  • 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?
  • Corne V3
    Corne V3
    A build log and brief review of the Corne V3, as well as the Kunai case.
  • 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.
  • Lemon
    Lemon is a notification proxy that supports D-Bus, as well as the Pimoroni Raspberry Pi Unicorn Hat HD, allowing you to build a cheap, open-source alternative to LaMetric.
  • Overpush
    A self-hosted, drop-in replacement for Pushover, that uses XMPP as delivery method and offers the same API for submitting messages, so that existing setups (e.g. Grafana) can continue working and only require changing the API URL.
  • 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™ ?