Replace tinymce-rails-imageupload 2022-07-14 I maintain a number of Ruby on Rails projects that contain the great tinymce-rails-imageupload g...
The most underused browser feature 2021-08-24 The web has been plagued by cookie consent popups and banners since the General Data Protection R...
Rails system test with mobile viewport 2021-08-19 While building my subscription tracking service I broke the mobile navigation menu and deployed i...
Third and Fourth Month as a Solo Founder 2021-08-04 Previously I wrote about my first and second month as a solo founder. I didn’t write about month ...
My Second Month as a Solo Founder 2021-05-31 I’m writing this on the last day of my second month as a solo founder. Read about my first month ...
My favorite Ruby gems 2021-05-26 I’m always hesistant when it comes to using gems. Every gem you add to a project is a bit of adde...
Clean up HTML class attributes in Ruby on Rails 2021-05-04 I keep on discovering handy view helpers in Ruby on Rails while developing my SaaS. A few weeks b...
My First Month as a Solo Founder 2021-04-28 On the first of april I started my first full-time month as the solo founder. I’ll try to build a...
PostgreSQL generate_series for generating time series 2021-04-22 Ever needed to aggregate data per time period where you didn’t have data points in every part of ...
Generating unique invoice numbers in Ruby on Rails 2021-04-15 I’m currently building a subscription tracker with reminders. While building the subscription par...
Choosing a Rails JSON serializer for your API in 2021 2021-02-05 The state of JSON serialization in the Rails world seems to change fast and often. A few years ba...
Reduce number of Jira notification mails 2020-12-30 The past few months I’ve been fine-tuning a mail filter to reduce the amount of Jira notification...
Using gitlab-ci-multi-runner on OpenBSD 2016-04-06 After contributing some small build problem fixes for gitlab-ci-multi-runner and two of it’s depe...
Configuring L2TP over IPSec on OpenBSD for Mac OS X clients 2015-08-16 For work we required the use of a VPN for a number of Mac OS X laptops to an OpenBSD 5.6 router. ...
Using Local File Contents With Masterless Puppet 2014-06-01 For a masterless Puppet setup I use to configure my personal computers, I was in need of a way to...
Fighting Spam with OpenBSD's spamd(8) 2014-04-27 A few days ago I discoved OpenBSD’s spamd(8). Apparently I’ve always confused it with SpamAssassi...
Remote installation of OpenBSD from Linux 2014-04-13 Using a trick documented here, I switched this server from Linux to OpenBSD, without a support in...
Pro Pupppet Second Edition Review 2014-03-30 A few weeks back I purchased Pro Puppet for my Kindle. I had been using Puppet before, but readin...
Basic Concepts of High Availability Linux 2014-03-23 When considering to build a high availability cluster based on Linux, it’s easy to find all kinds...
No need for RVM or rbenv on OpenBSD 2014-03-16 A lot of Ruby on Rails developers install Ruby by using RVM or rbenv. Most of the time this is be...
A Good BSD Versus Linux Explanation 2014-03-02 The following link is a good written article about some of the differences between the BSDs (most...
Switched to a different Google Reader alternative: Feedbin 2013-06-23 Last december I switched to Feed a Fever for RSS reading. I really enjoyed it, but after I while ...
Switching from Google Reader to Feed a Fever 2012-12-29 In my opinion Google Reader has become a lot less nice to work with by completely removing the sh...
Using Nagios to monitor multiple VirtualHosts 2012-03-08 On first sight, it doesn’t look like Nagios or Icinga can be used to monitor websites hosted on t...
Automatic Invariant Detection in Dynamic Web Applications 2010-09-08 For the last year, I have been working on my master project and two weeks ago I finally graduated...
Symphony CMS; the Best CMS? 2010-08-11 I’ve been looking for a good Content Management System (CMS) the last couple of days after a coll...
Crawljax 1.9 Released 2010-04-16 We just released Crawljax 1.9, the project I’m working on for my master thesis. It’s mostly a “bu...
Get Wacom Bamboo Pen Working in Ubuntu Karmic 2010-04-12 In my last post I described how to get the Wacom Bamboo Pen (CTL-460) to work in Ubuntu 10.04 Luc...
Get Wacom Bamboo Pen Working in Ubuntu Lucid 2010-04-11 The new Wacom Bamboo Pen (CTL-460) doesn’t work in Ubuntu Lucid out-of-the-box. You need a newer ...
Fix Your Insecure Passwords 2010-03-28 Everybody knows it, but nobody does it: using real secure passwords. One of the most heard reason...
Guest Blog Post Published at CDT 2010-02-25 The launch of pleaserobme.com received a lot more media attention than we had expected. We were o...
Location spam, annoying and.. risky? 2010-02-16 Hey, do you have a Twitter account? Have you ever noticed those messages in which people tell you...
Crawljax 1.8 released 2009-12-29 I’m working on a cool project for my master thesis: Crawljax. Crawljax is a website crawler that ...
Howto: Live migrate to software RAID 1 2009-09-19 Feel insecure about your data? Don’t trust your harddrive anymore? Use this howto to migrate your...
Pinnacle DVB-T stick remote 2009-09-12 Another post about that Pinnacle DVB-T stick? No, this one is about the remote! I wrote that the ...
Pinnacle DVB-T stick on Ubuntu Jaunty 2009-09-09 Yesterday I decided to buy the Pinnacle DVB-T Stick (also known as Pinnacle TV Stick 72e) to watc...
Fixing FreeNX on Fedora 11 2009-07-11 Today I had some problems getting FreeNX to work on Fedora 11. FreeNX is a VNC-like system that h...
Using GNU screen as virtmanager for KVM 2009-06-30 After my last post about KVM, somebody emailed me, asking how I use KVM’s serial console in combi...
Speeding up your website 2009-06-28 A few days ago I stumbled upon the new Google “Let’s make the web faster”-page. I found some usef...
Boot Ubuntu livecds in KVM without VNC 2009-06-26 This post is just for the sake of documenting this.
My first Cherokee patch 2009-05-24 I’ve been playing with Cherokee (the light-weight web server) for a while now. I really like the ...
Magic c-style comments 2009-04-23 A friend/collegea of mine had a really cool idea about c-style comments. C-style comments are mul...
Monitor Postfix with Cacti and SNMP 2009-04-19 Today I configured Cacti and SNMP after I saw the graphs of a friend. He had graphs for Postfix, ...
Testing Ubuntu Jaunty with UXA 2009-04-11 I’ve been testing Ubuntu Jaunty for a few weeks now and after using it for a day or two, my memor...
Using imapproxy to speedup webmail 2009-04-05 Yesterday, I discovered a great way to improve the speed of your webmail client. Two friends of m...
DD-WRT on the Fonera 2100 2009-03-01 I finally got the DD-WRT firmware working on my Fonera 2100. I had been trying to get it up and r...