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Rebooting my blog

November 03, 2019

I have been absent from my blog for quite a while now. One of the reasons is that I really do not enjoy working with wordpress anymore. So I…

What I wish I knew about Jenkinsfiles

November 18, 2018

How to use the Jenkins Pipeline Linter

Exploration to use Dart across Web and Mobile

October 06, 2018

Earlier this year I had the opportunity to develop an app in-house in a small team on our own terms. We went with Flutter , which I enjoyed…

Gradual restart for Cloud Foundry apps

January 21, 2018

How to restart your Cloud Foundry deployed apps without downtine

Quicktip: Create app launchers in Ubuntu 17.10

December 31, 2017

I finally managed to update my system to Ubuntu 17.10. After doing that I wanted to install TeamSpeak 3 , which does not come in a .deb…

Package Cloud Foundry java-buildpack with Docker

November 26, 2017

How I used Docker to package the CF java-buildpack in minutes

Quicktip: Send ADB command to all connected devices

August 08, 2017

When a bug in your Android app is hard to reproduce, it can make sense to install a debuggable version of your app on more than one device…

Quick ADB setup for any Android device

August 06, 2017

Use Google USB drivers on Windows regardless of the device vendor

My blog's 2016 in review

January 02, 2017

Just some thoughts and numbers to contemplate my blog's 2016

Quicktip: If your DS Apps on Android can't connect anymore

August 31, 2016

Last week I was surprised to see that the DS apps on my Android phone weren't able to connect to my DiskStation anymore. I found out that…

Quicktip: Working with base64 in the shell

July 15, 2016

Recently I found myself looking on some base64 encoded values while debugging. I had an assumption about inputs and wanted to tell if the…

Integrating GitBlit with Directory Server

July 12, 2016

Make use of DSM Directory Server as Gitblit authentication provider

Enjoying automatic Let's Encrypt certificate renewal

June 18, 2016

It is when you start your weekend and notice that your certificates expired, that you start spending your free time on things you actually…

Reverse Proxy Tomcat for easy HTTPS

May 27, 2016

How to use DSM 6 reverse proxy for easy HTTPS access to Tomcat

DSM 6 Adventures: Fixing Piwik

May 15, 2016

How to fix Piwik after updating to DSM 6

DSM 6 Adventures: Restoring Tomcat

May 01, 2016

The Tomcat configurations you can lose during the DSM 6 Update

DSM 6 Adventures: Restoring WordPress

April 14, 2016

What I did to restore my WordPress blog after the DSM 6 Update

DSM 6 Adventures: Explosive Update

March 31, 2016

My experience upgrading a DS214play from DSM 5.2 to 6.0

Turn your DiskStation into a self-hosted Git server

March 05, 2016

One of the things I almost instantly wanted to do after purchasing my DiskStation was to use it as a private Git server. I thought I was in…

HTTPS for Tomcat 7 with Let's Encrypt

February 13, 2016

In my last blog post I described the benefits of HTTPS and how to set up your Synology DiskStation to use HTTPS with a trusted certificate…

Get HTTPS on DiskStation with Let's Encrypt

January 28, 2016

From the moment I got my DiskStation and made it available online, I wanted to try HTTPS. Organizations that issue certificates to use for…

Piwik and WordPress on Synology DSM

January 10, 2016

This is only my second post and I started only 3 weeks ago, but I have been wondering ever since about one question: Would people actually…

Getting started blogging

December 18, 2015

My first blog post So here we finally are, me writing my first blog post. I have been thinking about starting my own blog for a while now…