Who doesn't like more battery life for free? A brief investigation into how to reduce power consumption of your laptop by a third.

Merging /tmp and the xdg-Desktop-directory make you have a quick file drop in reach from almost every file-dialogue that doesn't clutter your folders.

Just a handful of options to make shellscripts much more failsafe and resilient.

Randomized hardware addresses for network devices can help to reduce one's own trackability and privacy. Here's how.

A brief summary of my current network setup on my laptop.

There is a new tool in town for wifi so blazingly fast it accidentially creates race-conditions. A little workaround.

Self-hosting Threema backup isn't as difficult as it sounds. This is what is needed.

Everyone hates debugging, but with IPython, we can at least get an interactive debugging-shell at our code-point of choice.

IRC is a presence protocol. You disconnect, you don't get any messages anymore. This, however, doesn't have to be this way. A little dead-simple setup to get an always-connected IRC-setup.

Manual backups are relying on human interaction and are therefore inherently unreliable. Let's automate and trigger a backup the moment the backup disk shows up!

A little writeup what makes Archlinux my preferred Linux distribution, primarily to have a linkable text on it.