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