Fiber in the patch panel

Fiber in the patch panel

I have two fiber cables in my patch panel — a single-mode simplex SC from my ISP, and a multi-mode duplex LC for 10 GbE network to my desktop computer.

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Burner addresses using ProtonMail sieve filter and catch-all

Burner addresses using ProtonMail sieve filter and catch-all

You can get burner like functionality in ProtonMail by using a custom sieve filter, and catch-all email — here is how.

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My new home office

My new home office

In our new house there is an 20 m² basement, it consists of two rooms — both 10 m². I have turned the inner room into my new home office/server room, with my electronics lab and homelab.

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I moved this blog to MediaWiki for one year

I moved this blog to MediaWiki for one year

In November 2019 I moved this blog from Hugo to MediaWiki, in January 2021 I moved it back.

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Output Hugo aliases as a Nginx map file

Output Hugo aliases as a Nginx map file

In my previous post I wrote about turning Hugo aliases into Firebase redirects. Now — let’s convert them into a Nginx map file, and have Nginx redirect based on that file.

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Turning Hugo aliases into Firebase redirects

Turning Hugo aliases into Firebase redirects

Using Firebase and Hugo? Use front matter aliases to automatically add redirects to your firebase.json configuration. Turning your aliases into proper 301 or 302 redirects.

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I’m having no luck with ZFS on Arch Linux

I'm having no luck with ZFS on Arch Linux

I recently had a couple of 2 TB drives to spare, and thought I would put them to good use as a ZFS mirror on my Arch Linux desktop.

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Raspberry Pi DAKboard display

Raspberry Pi DAKboard display

My girlfriend wanted a digital calendar on the kitchen wall; I made one with a 24" monitor, a Raspberry Pi and DAKboard.

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Replacing a disk and expanding the ZFS pool

Replacing a disk and expanding the ZFS pool

I’m replacing a disk and and expanding my ZFS 2×RAID-Z2 pool 👇

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Replacing the OptiPlex 9010 SFF CMOS battery

Replacing the OptiPlex 9010 SFF CMOS battery

I have two Dell OptiPlex 9010 SFF computers, and one of them have been unused and unplugged for a long time. So long in fact that the CMOS battery is now dead. But replacing it was simple.

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