Technical projects, experiments, travel stories and practical lessons from building things.
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Build one Ionic and Angular app for web, iOS and Android, with PWA installation, PouchDB and CouchDB sync, authentication and offline access.
With Steve Jobs originally presenting the idea of web apps “that look exactly and behave exactly like native...
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How IOTA's feeless distributed ledger could support machine-to-machine payments, data exchange and decentralized Industry 4.0 systems.
GDP Growth is declining all around the world. We reached our economic peak 20 years ago. CO2 emissions are changing the water cycle rapidly, which is exponentially shifting the chemistry of our planet. By the end of this century only...
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How I built an energy-efficient NanoPi M4 NAS with OpenMediaVault, Docker, MariaDB, Nextcloud, DuckDNS, HTTPS and temperature-based fan control.
My father needs a new laptop. And I have one sitting around, that I abuse as a server. A waste of resources and not ideal use case for a laptop. So I took my homeserver, put a ssd inside and gave him a new destiny. My father is happy but I have no cloud...
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How I upgraded a €97 ThinkPad X230 with Coreboot, a classic X220 keyboard, custom boot art, an Atheros Wi-Fi card and an IPS display.
Ever since the end of the bush era 2008, every Intel chip comes with an embedded subsystem called the intel management engine. Every i3, i5, i7 and i9 processor has this engine. It is a black-box and has access to every peripheral device like...
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How I turned an old Ubuntu laptop into a Nextcloud homeserver with Wake-on-LAN, OpenWrt port forwarding and Docker containers.
It is a hot summer and my brain is to overcooked to program anything… Suddenly a bright light appears of nowhere and screams at me:
“You are a privacy slut! All your files are stored on Google Photos and OneDrive. You are using Gmail and...
