Blog

Read my latest posts. You can also follow the Atom feed.

Add your own custom Mastodon emoji

Self-hosting a Mastodon (and really any Fediverse flavour) server comes with many perks. Adding custom emojis for fun or as part of one's branding is by far one of my favourite!

Tags

Why I love the Moons Time Tracker

As an indie dev, knowing where to focus my time and energy is quite essential and a good time tracking app makes all the difference.

Tags

Subdomain Redirect and Reverse Proxy With Caddy

Let's explore an example of a Caddyfile for a reverse proxy combined with a static media file serving setup for Django (or Wagtail) website

Caddy Server Logo

Tags

Making Obsidian look and feel native on macOS

This is my Obsidian setup and the plugins and settings I use to make it feel more at home on macOS

Obsidian Minimal Theme Settings toggles

Tags

Preparing for Toolbox V2

We're retiring surveys as they will soon be part of the Feedback Toolbox

Tags

AI robots.txt

A community maintained robots.txt file, blocking AI bots from ingesting content on this site.

Tags

GitHub as a Social Network

I came across a (now deleted) toot sharing tips on ways to "get yourself trending on GitHub". My first reaction was quite strong - why would anyone want to be trending on a source hosting service? Is GitHub about to become yet-another platform to grind on for attention and likes? Let's find out.

Tags

Xcode Cloud is perfect for indie devs

Xcode Cloud is perfect for indie devs

xcode cloud

Tags

How to upgrade an instance to Mastodon 4.2

Let's upgrade a Mastodon instance to the latest version (without Docker)

Mastodon TootSDK

Tags

Adding a feedback widget to a Ghost website

Connect with your audience's thoughts and ideas with a feedback widget in your Ghost website

Screenshot-2023-09-04-at-11.28.10

Tags

Progress Report

FeedbackBulb Swift SDK Update 1.2

Tags

Phoenix Telemetry module for TelemetryDeck

Let's implement server-side tracking for a Phoenix web app by reporting anonymous page visits to TelemetryDeck using the :telemetry package

TelemetryDeck and Elixir Phoenix

Tags

Deploying VitePress app to Fly.io

VitePress - Vue & Vite Powered Static Site Generator

VitePress

Tags

Progress report

FeedbackBulb has a new logo πŸŽ‰

Feedbackbulb logo

Tags

Status Update August 2022

A little bit of this, a little bit of that

Code Snippet: URLSession.data(for: request) for iOS14

While it’s possible to use async/await methods in Swift when targeting older versions of iOS, Foundation does not offer a back-port of newer async method signatures introduced in iOS 15 and iOS 16.

Tags

How to always Paste and Match Style on macOS

How to make ⌘ + V Paste and Match Style by default.

Tags

Adding an executable target to a Rust library

Let's see how to create a combined library-binary project in Rust with 0 extra config.

Tags

Xcode Invocation Tool

Launch Xcode from Terminal in the given directory or open a specific project from command line.

Tags