I love backups. Most people who know me probably know that. And I love borgbackup [1]. I’ve been using borgbackup for many years and I still think it’s the best backup tool in the open source world. And in my opinion it beats all commercial solutions as well, provided you have the technical know-how. Read more...

Recently I wanted (or needed) to connect to a system that was not accessible from outside behind a firewall. This can be done via an SSH tunnel. It’s actually simple, but the solution is perhaps not yet familiar to everyone. Read more...

Three weeks ago, my employer gave me a MacBook Pro to develop applications with Python and Large Language Models. This proved to be very tough on our Windows x86/x64 notebooks. However, my first steps with macOS were also tough. Up to that point, I had only worked with Linux and Windows desktops (and a brief detour to OS/2 back then). Read more...