This will be a reminder for myself on how to set up a basic Arch Linux and not a guide with a lot of variety on how to set up arch. I will update this post when I learn something new, while installing arch on one of my machines again. In the past I did some experiments with btrfs, but had some problems while rebalancing, and actually used none of the fancy features like snapshots, btrfs send or other cool things....

I was (and still am for some parts) a happy vscode user. On the other hand I was always looking up to all these crazy fast vim/neovim users and their keyboard only drive workflows. After hopping on and off the vim train a few times a year something new came around sometime in 2021 - LSP support on neovim core. LSP stands for Language Server Protocol and definies how your IDE communicates with a specific language server to get features like ‘go to definition’, ‘show references’ or ‘rename this variable’....

As you already know I host most of the services I use on a daily basis myself. Some of these services are hosted on the public Internet, while others are running on my home server. In this post I will cover the basic on how to get a peers-to-site VPN connection with WireGuard. WireGuard uses a simple public/private keypair to set up an encrypted VPN tunnel, therefore there is no need for a complicated certificate authority setup....

I never expected to use any other OS than my beloved Linux (and especially Arch Linux) for developing and day-to-day computing. Well, I actually use Windows to play some games with friends occasionally, but the time has come to use a Mac at work. It was simply the easiest way to get a much more powerful machine than my ThinkPad X390. So here I’m trying to write up what I like about macOS and what I miss from my highly customized Linux machine....

This is a short guide (and reminder for myself) how to add a Samba share as target for macOS Time Machine. I found some blog posts about how to do this, but most of the time the author created a new disk on the share 1 2. This seems like a rather unusual complicated setup to do backups and there are products like the Apple Time Capsule, that works via network discovery....