After using Jekyll for quite some time now, I was looking for a way to publish to a draft website before publishing to the live website. As I'm using a git hook to publish my websites (see Why and how I moved from Wordpress to Jekyll: Publishing [https:

bup [https://github.com/bup/bup] is a backup tool based on git's packfile format. I use it every day and I'm very happy with it, except it's handling of the commandline task and that there is no way to just do a backup

A missing piece on my static generated personal website tobru.ch [https://www.tobru.ch/] was a nice looking, well integrated photo gallery. Some time ago I came across Lychee [http://lychee.electerious.com/], a very nice looking, simple gallery. It uses JavaScript to render the content in the browser

When I created this statically generated blog, I decided to not integrate comments. Mainly because there was no solution which suited my needs: self hosted, small, easy to use, nice look. For my personal website I used Juvia [https://github.com/phusion/juvia], but for my needs its too big

Some network services are predestinated to be used as DDoS helper: They are UDP based and the response payload is much bigger than the sent request. UDP makes it easy to fake the sender IP. So anyone can send a request on behalf of some other IP which then gets

In my opinion it gets more and more important to secure Internet services using standards like TLS. I try to summarize some things I did in the last few days to have my services more secure. Certificates To get startet with asymmetric (public/private key) security, a signed public key,

Bald gehts auf die grosse Reise: 3 Monate Neuseeland und Australien. Los gehts am 10. April 2014, zurück sind wir am 10. Juli 2014. Während der Reise werde ich ab und zu hier berichten. Die Reiseroute haben wir bereits geplant: Wir fliegen über Singapur (dort bleiben wir für 3 Nächte)

My Jolla [http://jolla.com/] mobile phone arrived short after Christmas 2013. After using it a few days, here is a short review of my experience with it. Introduction: What is "Jolla"? Before I start my little review, I want to share what Jolla is and why I