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== Claus' Blog ==
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Taking Control of My Dotfiles with chezmoi

| #howto #development #recommendation

Managing dotfiles is one of those things that starts as a quick weekend project and slowly evolves into a serious hobby. Iโ€™ve spent more hours than Iโ€™d like to admit tweaking my terminal colors or perfecting my shell aliases. For a long time, I relied on a complex shell script to handle everything. Read more...

My Hugo Workflow: From Markdown to Live Post

| #git #hugo #blog #development #personal

Hugo is a fantastic static site generator. Iโ€™ve always appreciated its “no-nonsense” approach: you write in Markdown, it generates static HTML, and there is zero bloat. Because it has no heavy dependencies, you can host it almost anywhere. However, despite my love for the framework, Iโ€™ve always found the actual publishing flow a bit tedious. Read more...

Building a "Service Hub": One Tool, Three Ways to Use It

| #ai #mcp #llm #api #git #development

Iโ€™ve been wrestling with a common dilemma lately: whatโ€™s the best way to build a tool when you need to access it from completely different environments? Take my YouTube transcript downloader, for example. I don’t use it in just one way. Read more...

The fear of writing on my own blog

| #ai #personal #life #blog #opinion

I have always loved technical blogs. There is something admirable about people who possess the creativity, discipline, and knowledge to regularly publish content. Looking at my RSS feed, I often envy the writers who seem to effortlessly share their wisdom with the world. Read more...

Self-hosting Pangolin: A minimal setup guide

| #pangolin #networking #security #guide #setup #docker

Pangolin is a powerful self-hosted platform for managing secure, zero-trust network access to your services. I switched from Cloudflare to Pangolin primarily due to (free-tier) limitations and performance issues. Also, I encountered consistent connectivity problems during peak hours, particularly in the evenings, caused by Telekom’s peer routing policies. Read more...

My personal AI recap of 2025 (Part 1)

| #ai #personal #development #github #opensource #projects #llm

2025 was one of the most transformative years for me since the COVID-19 pandemic and the year I became a father. It marked the rise of “Vibe Coding” and agentic workflows, opening up previously unimaginable possibilities. For me, it all began in early 2025 as I started to realize just how effective Vibe Coding could be. Read more...