Viktor Petersson

I’ve been clicking through the Ubuntu installer on Proxmox since 2019 – I even wrote a note to myself back then about the dance. Partition the disk, pick a locale, wait for packages, reboot, SSH in, install the things I always install. Ten minutes per VM, every time. What finally pushed me to fix it was wanting ephemeral Ubuntu VMs for …

Digital sovereignty is becoming an increasingly hot topic, and people are starting to wake up to just how large the premium is for “cloud” versus simply running a few dedicated servers. For me, this is full circle – not in the technology, but in the operational model. I’ve been managing my own servers since I was running FreeBSD jails …

Long before ChatGPT, I was obsessively collecting health data. Blood work going back to 2018—some in PDFs, some in spreadsheets. On the device side, I’ve cycled through Whoop, Withings, and others, all feeding into Apple Health. Over the years it’s become the central hub for everything: heart rate, steps, workouts, sleep, body composition, blood …

In Part 1, I replaced ipgeolocation.io with a self-hosted Rust service in under two hours. That was just one piece of a larger pattern we’ve been following at Screenly. This is the story of DSLF—a project that started as a link shortener and evolved into a Linktree killer. The Link Shortener A few months ago, I got fed up paying for Rebrandly at …

We’ve all heard the saying that AI is eating SaaS. For some simple products, it’s certainly becoming true. At Screenly, we’ve been using ipgeolocation.io for a while. It’s a solid service, but at its core, it’s just a frontend for a GeoIP database. This morning, I saw yet another monthly invoice from them and decided to run an …