Leaving the Cloud (Again)
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 …
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Making Apple Health Data Queryable with AI
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 …
AI is Killing (Basic) SaaS, Part 2: From Link Shorteners to Linktrees
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 …
AI is Eating SaaS: Building an IP Geolocation API in Two Hours
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 …
How I Streamlined My Jekyll Diagram Workflow with D2 and Bun
Over the last few days, I gave the sbomify website a much-needed overhaul. The previous iteration didn’t really reflect what we’re doing, especially as the product has matured. The …
PostgreSQL Replication Troubleshooting: War Stories from the Field
I recently wrapped up a consulting gig helping a client troubleshoot some gnarly PostgreSQL replication issues. What started as a “quick performance tune” turned into a …
DSLF – a rust hacking, cheaper hosting, and two HTTP codes I didn’t know about
I hacked together DSLF today because paying a monthly fee for a plain 301 felt silly. It’s a tiny Rust service that reads a CSV and spits out redirects—nothing more. In the process …
Codex manages my podcast
When I started my podcast a year and a half ago, I looked at the tools available. For those not familiar, for many platforms (like Amazon Music and Apple Podcasts) you need to …
All Roads Lead to DSLRs
I’ve been running my video podcast Nerding out with Viktor for about a year and a half now, with just under 50 episodes published. When I started out, I tried to keep things …
From Gateway to Dongle: Lessons from My Home Assistant Overhaul
I’ve previously written about my experiences with Home Assistant here and here. This article follows up on those posts and describes my current setup. Today, my stack includes Home …
Sonar Is Back: A Fresh Take on BLE Device Counting
I’m excited to share that I’ve just given Sonar—a FastAPI-based BLE device counter I built years ago—a full overhaul and relaunched it as an open-source project on …
Saving My Wrists - A 20-Year Quest for the Perfect Keyboard Setup
I’ve been using split keyboards for about 20 years now, a journey sparked by the all-too-common wrist pain that plagues many a nerd hunched over a standard keyboard. This …