Gnome Keyring SSH Agent on Arch XFCE I have been using Keychain for years to automatically start an SSH agent and unlock my SSH keys. But when I was setting up my new Laptop and fiddling with unlocking the Gnome Keyring, I was wondering why I wasn't using it for my SSH keys as well.… ▶

FrameWork 13 (Intel Ultra) & ArchLinux My trusty Thinkpad is now over a decade old and I was eyeing a Framework Laptop for a while now. So when the opportunity arose to get it as a work laptop I couldn't refuse ;-) I picked the Intel Ultra Core 165H model with 96GB of RAM and a 4TB NVME disk. This beast should have plenty of power for the foreseeable future.… ▶

Fish Shell I am using Bash as my shell for as long as I am using Linux. Over the years I had customized it quite a lot by making my .bashrc load a whole bunch of scripts from a ~/.bashrc.d directory. It worked fine but of course there is only so much you can do with simple aliases and function definitions…… ▶

The Enshittification of IKEA Remember when IKEA was good? I know, everyone joked about the labyrinthine shop layout and how you ended up with more in your big blue plastic bag than you had planned, but overall it was good. You got decent stuff for affordable prices and the shopping was a family experience. Complete with either a full meal or at least a snack at the end (or even both).… ▶

Lego Advent Calendar Every year, my lovely wife prepares a custom advent calendar for me. And, because I loved it as a kid and still do, she puts Lego in it. Everyday, I get a few more pieces and build a new model. At the last day I get the manual and build the actual set. It's great fun.… ▶

Using Mailpit as my default MTA Three years ago I blogged about Using Mailhog as my default MTA and that worked great for me. However, Mailhog development seems to be stalled and it had occasional problems with some perfectly fine mails. So when I stumbled across Mailpit, it was time to switch.… ▶

Beer Bread So now that the bread making trend seems to be mostly over, I gave it a try. I googled for the “simplest bread to make without yeast” (because I didn't have yeast) and came across a recipe for “beer bread” which was perfect (because, of course I had beer).… ▶

House of Leaves I finished reading the “Hᴏᴜꜱᴇ of Leaves” some weeks ago. But today I thought about it again so here's a quick review. Hᴏᴜꜱᴇ of Leaves is all about meta levels. So it's fitting that I first heard about the book in a… ▶

Introducing: clipscreen Using a ginormous 49" widescreen monitor is awesome. Except for when you wanna share your screen in Google Meet or other tools. Sharing a 5120×1440 screen simply makes no sense. Of course you can opt to share a tab or window instead. But for work, I often need to switch between a terminal, my IDE and a browser. If I want to share my workflow with a colleague, I have to constantly stop and restart sharing.… ▶

Personal Server with Docker Compose Over the last couple of weeks I updated the server this blog and many more stuff is running on. I decided to move (nearly) everything to Docker. My previous setup was much more traditional. My server runs Debian Linux. A single Apache server provided different virtual hosts, the different services used different PHP FPM pools, each using an individual user.… ▶