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Another month went by. Here are my gems of the month. Compressing PDFs isn’t a simple task, because it’s a complex format with different medias embedded. Ghostscript is a powerful tool to manipulate P...

We are already at the end of January. Time flies. Here are my gems of the month. Recently I wanted to use a GPG key to sign my git commits. I didn’t know the steps from the top of my head so I want to...

Hopefully I get back to the habit after a trip to Asia. Archlinux package manager Pacman stores a list of mirrors from which the packages are loaded. This list is located in . is a tool to manage t...

One step closer to building a habit out of this. These are my findings in October 24”. Not long ago I’ve bought a Logitech MX Mechanical Mini. Typing feels good on it and it is quiet for being a mecha...

This article is a collection of gems I encountered during September 24”. Hopefully a series or habit will develop out of this. I’ve found useful in combination with to style elements when an input...

The University of Zurich uses Ivantis Pulse Secure in combination with Microsoft Single Sign On (SSO) as their VPN technology. I want to explain here how to connect this VPN when using Arch Linux. For...

helps to make system images like ISO bootable from a USB drive. Once you have Ventoy installed on a USB drive, it is as simple as copying ISO files to the mounted USB drive and you are ready to go. T...

There are plenty of time tracking tools out there. I even developed my own a while ago . Anyway I often run into the situation, where I need to track my time quickly, without setting up a project in ...

Wireguard offers a modern virtual private network (VPN) implementation, which was with incorporated into the Linux kernel. It can be easily set up on a OpenWrt router, server or client wise. The fol...

With the you get a complete and robust Zigbee Gateway. It can be easily mounted on normally sized Raspberry Pis and is featuring a Real Time Clock (RTC), which becomes really important, when the hos...