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A bespectacled, desperate looking man struggles as he puts too many celery plants into a large pot named DB0.

Memos and Recipes

Celery, Redis, and the Perils of Shared Brokers

Self-hosters who want to experiment with Celery should isolate the various applications they might be running that already use Celery. Configuring separate databases for each instance will do the trick.

A desperate-looking man, his eyes wide open, sitting at a desk trying to configure Proton Mail. Next to him at the wall, sticky notes about TXT, MX, DNS Record, verification and CNAME.

Memos and Recipes

Proton Mail and Route-53 DNS

A step-by-step guide for setting up an AWS Route-53 domain name for use with Proton Mail.

Phomemo M120 on Fedora 43

Memos and Recipes

Phomemo M120 on Fedora 43

Getting the useful and affortable Phomemo M120 label printer to work on Fedora 43 takes a few tweaks.

A vault in an old stone wall, heavily protected by chains and locks, a smart phone with the Wero app haphardly attached to it. Next to it, an opening in the wall.

Thoughts and Commentary

Wero is bad for consumers and bad for the economy

Wero promises to modernize European payments, yet merely digitizes the same pseudo-competitive structure that has long let banks charge punitive overdraft rates while stifling genuine innovation.

A young hero standing on a ladder, spoon-feeding a fat, frustrated monster named ADM.

Memos and Recipes

Getting password-store ("pass") to work on Asustor NAS ADM

Sometimes building from source is easier than you think — especially when there's no source to build.

An elderly man sitting at a desk, scratching his head while looking at a monitor with "Skrooge" printed on it. In the background books about "Fedora" and "cmake".

Memos and Recipes

Building Skrooge for Fedora 42

Getting a build from source to work for the Skrooge personal-finance manager took me some time to figure out. Here a summary of the steps.

Why Your Nextcloud AI Assistant Takes Forever (And How I Fixed It)

Memos and Recipes

Why Your Nextcloud AI Assistant Takes Forever (And How I Fixed It)

Nextcloud's AI Assistant takes 3-5 minutes to respond by default. I built a Docker container that fixes this, delivering responses in seconds.

Challenging David Frum's Claims on Tariffs

Thoughts and Commentary

Challenging David Frum's Claims on Tariffs

Tariffs may be more damaging than David Frum suggests, with far-reaching consequences for the economy beyond just low-income households.

Linux on AM5 B850 Mainboards: A Pleasant Surprise

Memos and Recipes

Linux on AM5 B850 Mainboards: A Pleasant Surprise

My Linux installation on an ASRock B850 A Pro Wifi mainboard worked surprisingly well. Despite a lack of officially stated Linux support, key features like Wi-Fi, storage, and dual video cards work flawlessly.

Watch out for what you share with an LLM

Memos and Recipes

Watch out for what you share with an LLM

LLMs are astonishingly good at picking up hints and turning them into insights.

Not becoming a click robot for Google

Thoughts and Commentary

Not becoming a click robot for Google

Why I decided to leave Gmail in favor of paid-for, ads-free Email.

Memos and Recipes

Clipable and a Postgres issue

Non-postgres DB users cannot create tables in a database unless they have full ownership.

Memos and Thoughts

Memos and Recipes

Memos and Thoughts

Introducing my notebook as a tool mainly for myself. Don't expect too much.