Thunderbird, Outlook, Android & automx2 — Have you ever wondered, how to make your self hosted or corporate mail configure itself in Thunderbird, Android, IOs, Outlook and all those other clients out there? Well it’s easy, these clients look for a XML-configuration file at a specific web-location and configure accordingly. We will be using the python…

Convert unused CPU time to future render time at night with Systemd and SheepIt — SheepIt is a free, distributed render-farm. You can donate computation-time whenever you don’t need it, receive points for it and then use those points to render your own projects later. It basically allows you to “save up” render time over days, weeks and months and then use it all in…

Best ZSH Linux Terminal gimmick — One of the few things, which always felt inconvenient to me when working in Linux terminals, was the fact that I couldn’t easily differentiate between error output and normal output. Even the windows Powershell has this feature by default. Fortunately I was shown an approach using LD_PRELOAD, to preload a…

Icinga2-Notifications and Signal Bot Concepts — For lack of alternatives Telegram had been my messenger of choice until Signal became more widespread, mainly thanks to the What’s App privacy policy changes. However I found myself still using a Telegram bot for my server monitoring notifications. Now it’s time to move to signal for this as well…

Make a modern gaming-UI as a complete design noob — I recently had to create an UI in Unreal Engine, and being the gimp-grouch that I am, I instantly thought I could (ab-)use LibreCAD, an Open Source technical drawing program, to create a scalable vector UI. There was just one problem. Unreal Engine can’t import vector graphics.

How to make websites work offline — One of the best additions to browser capabilities in recent years was the addition of service workers and offline support in general. We can now preload data, like articles or network intensive data like pictures, style-sheets or JavaScript libraries, from our web service. This is extremely useful for mobile devices…

Predatory Advertising in Tech — All my tech-savvy readers and YouTube using colleagues, of course cringe, whenever they accidentally end up on a video with a VPN sponsoring. A sponsoring usually not in the form of an traditional ad, but as a spoken endorsement by the creator himself, so my god damn adblocker can’t block…

This article is a indirect successor to JavaScript-lazyload. You might want to read this first. To recap: We have designed a JavaScript routine, which will load images based on the view-ports size and position. Previously we have pre-generated those images and returned specific resolutions as static content, now we want…

In this article I will showcase a template to activate an arbitrary application once it is accessed and deactivate it again automatically if it’s no longer used. While it is not difficult per se it unfortunately requires a lot of systemd units and can be confusion at first. If you…