Switching between Safari Profile Windows - Not Creating New Ones
Safari Profiles are a great power user tool. If you'd like to separate concerns like between work, personal, side projects – make a profile for each one; your context stays localised. Then, you can search for the website through Spotlight.
Blog
Fix Login Delay on Debian LXC on Proxmox
I recently migrated my ingress from a VM to a container on Proxmox. The primary motivation was that the VM, running Docker with a web server container, was frequently encountering space constraints. This setup felt unnecessarily complex for a simple ingress serving just a two-person household.
Blog
Safari goes nuts everytime I watch a YouTube Video
So I was watching kitze's latest video on why you shouldn't build in public maybe on Safari and my Airpods Pro 2 make the same stuttering / chopping sound with the audio and video falling out of sync, as it always has, every so often. The behaviour repeats consistently.
Blog
TLS Handshake Timeout in Docker Containers within Proxmox SDN
If you use docker-compose (like you should), the MTU is still going to be the default of 1500 because every docker compose file is treated as a separate set of services that warrant a separate network.
Blog
Obsidian vs Calendar Reminders and Obsidian
Since humankind evolved, one question has persisted: to obsidian or to obsidian with other tools in parallel. This note tries to balance out the equation by throwing in some personal observations and pointers, which are supposed to help me tilt the balance for a while, at least.
Blog
Unsupported File Formats in iOS Photos - H264 Main-L6
It turns out iOS Photos does not support H264 files that have the profile Main@L6 and apparently, also SVG. For a list of supported formats for Photos, Apple says this.
Blog
Google Workspace Delegate Calendars on iOS
Google Workspace Delegated Calendars do not show up on the Apple Calendar on iPhone. It does so on my Mac though. Why?
Introduction to Proxmox 9: What's New and Why Virtualize Your Projects?
Proxmox 9 was recently released and brings in a lot of features that might cater to the advanced. However, with this new release, they bring an end to one of my biggest complaints to Proxmox: the mobile UI - it simply sucked: both the mobile web and mobile app.
Talks
Learning the tools we already possess: Bash
This presentation will contain lots of tips and tricks from the book, “Learn Bash the Hard Way.” We’ll explore Bash—a powerful shell you’ll encounter frequently in Linux. Rather than just memorizing commands, we’ll focus on learning by doing, making sure you feel confident experimenting on your own.
Talks
Encryption, ZFS and Proxmox: An unusual triangle
Encryption is all the buzz these days. In a hypervisor environment, it is reasonable to have some kind of encryption. Should the hypervisor handle that or should the user? To be more specific, we are talking about server side encryption or SSE or encryption at rest.
Most people don't realise how powerful Apple's PKM stack is. Sure, it has rough edges but those do not negate the instant searchability through Spotlight, the drag-and-drop integration between the apps and the zero-latency approach to entry.
Password Management
1Password
After Strongbox was sold over, 1Password was the next best thing. The surprise was in finding how mature the software was: from share links and pinning entries to apple watch to spotlight integration, 1P was somehow solving all the complaints I had about Bitwarden in one fell sweep.
Personal Budgeting
You Need a Budget (YNAB)
YNAB changed how I think about money, from the depths of debt to making me aware how I can float in the shallows and eventually get to multiple months of savings. It's the awareness that made the most difference, that each penny lives in its envelope and gets spent when needed. Highly recommend.
Calendar
Fantastical
I have several calendars in iCloud, which I use to do both: mostly journal and sometimes schedule. Fantastical connects to any calendar provider, has calendar sets, shows tasks from reminders, excellent natural language processing for easy capture and is an incredibly pretty-looking app.
