How we replaced Vagrant with devenv

What came before?

A few years ago we started using Vagrant with an Ubuntu virtual machine (VM) as the basis of our development environment. It served us well at the time, providing a good way to have the same environment as we had on our servers and a reasonab...

How we started to donate to Open Source at work

Pitching the idea

As you might have seen in the news, there have been a lot of articles over the years that Open Source software doesn’t receive enough support, especially financially.

At my employer Contria GmbH we use a lot of Open Source s...

Migrating from x86 to ARM (Raspberry Pi)

I’ve run my services on used Dell and HP servers for a few years now. I’ve decided a few months ago that I want to replace my x86 Dell server with a bunch of...

Switching to NixOS

A few months ago a friend showed me a Linux distribution called [[NixOS]]. I was immediately hooked by the idea. The two things that intrigued me the most where:

• The ability...

Streaming services and suggestion algorithms

My first streaming service was [[Google Play Music]]. It was at the time the only service wich let you upload your own music. This was at the time very...

I recently upgraded to un iPad Air 2020 from a iPad 2018. As with the iPad I wanted to use the Paperlike screen protector again. So right at the beginning I applied the screen protector. However I was...