Rsync is great for transfering large files over SSH, especially on unstable connections. It can resume copying but lacks an automatic retry option. I was using this command to transfer a big image snapshot from one server to an other If this command fails, for example because the remote host is unreachable for a short […]

Onlyoffice is a great open source office suite for desktop, mobile and cloud platforms. For certain tasks it is still difficult to find helpful tutorials or online resources. In this short post I’m going to explain how to insert page numbering at an arbitrary position of your text document. Considering a document with three pages: […]

Since a few days, the Linux application firewall OpenSnitch is available in the unstable channel of NixOS. It already works great but there is no easy way to deploy it yet. Here’s a short tutorial on how to setup it manually. First of all, make sure you use and import the unstable channel in your […]

After several months of development time, I would like to present a preview of my new Podcast app. Soon it will be a fully featured podcast manager which you can integrate into your existing personal Nextcloud instance. In this preview release, the app already includes some neat features: Browse podcast categories and charts, scroll through […]

Finally the complete rewrite of the Radio app is ready for it’s first release. It is now based on VueJS, has many new features, improved stability and better performance. Here’s a short overview of the new features! The image above shows a new page in the app, the “Recent” category. Every station you play will […]

The NUR repository template integrates automated tests done by Travis CI to check code integrity with every GIT commit. Only if the automated build process succeeds, commited package changes are applied to the main NUR repository. For me this was the first introduction to CI/CD (continuous integration / development). In case of the NixOS user […]

NixOS already offers a lot of standard Linux packages in their stable repository. Some packages doesn’t get merged or haven’t been submitted yet, but I don’t want to miss them after switching from ArchLinux to NixOS. So I started to create my own selfhosted NUR repository which is equivalent to the ArchLinux User Repository (AUR). […]

This small Python script will automatically login to public hotspots or development networks. It monitors the iwd wireless lan network daemon and performs an authentication process as soon it is connected and a matching connection profile is present. Do not use this in production or against real public access points, since automatically logging in will […]