Marder He Wrote #16
This week I turned an old Kindle into a TRMNL: I wrote up some notes here. I'm in the process of optimizing battery usage so hopefully I can run the TRMNL for months on a single charge. Hope you're having a nice week!
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Marder He Wrote #15
This week I jailbroke my Kindle, installed KOReader, and set up Calibre-Web. It was a busy week! I've posted my notes here. Now it's time to put my feet up and read a book!
Marder He Wrote #14
I've done it - I've switched my phone over to GrapheneOS! I was a little nervous making the switch thinking it might disrupt my day-to-day communications. I've been pleasantly surprised that there have been no major disruptions. I wrote up some notes here. Let
Marder He Wrote #13
This week I wrote a super-niche (boring) post describing how to sync Fastmail contacts and calendars with Android. After battling with Google's OS on my phone, I decided it was time to try GrapheneOS. I'm a few days into using GrapheneOS and I'm enjoying
Marder He Wrote #12
This week I moved my to-do list from Obsidian Tasks to Super Productivity! Combining task management with time tracking is Super Productivity's super power. I wrote up some notes on how I'm using the tool here. A few other tweaks I made this week: * Started managing
Marder He Wrote #11
It was a fun week! I set up Uptime Kuma to monitor my blog and newsletter. It works beautifully for my needs, I'm a big fan. I also wrote a post exploring some of my feelings around using large language models. Let me know what you think!
Marder He Wrote #10
Third time's the charm: I've moved to my third newsletter platform - I'm now using Ghost. I've been super impressed with Ghost and wrote a post comparing Ghost to the previous tools I've used. Let me know what you think
Marder He Wrote #9
It was a busy week! I wrote three posts: 1. How to configure Immich to avoid vendor lock-in: Immich: Photo Portability 2. A blogroll with some of the sites I follow online. 3. A guide showing how to run Kubernetes in the cloud for $4.10/month using hetzner-k3s. I
Marder He Wrote #8
This week, I’m migrating my newsletter from listmonk to Keila (hence the new look). I wrote a post about how I’m self-hosting Keila with docker compose and Cloudflare Tunnels, hope you enjoy it. All my best, Andrew
Marder He Wrote #7
About four months ago, I left Gmail for Proton Mail. Honestly, Proton Mail didn’t quite work for me. So I’ve switched to Fastmail, and I’m happy to say it’s ticking all the boxes! If you’re curious to read more, I wrote a short post recommending
Marder He Wrote #6
It was a busy week! I scraped a bit of data from the IndieWeb to see which apps are most popular. I’ve enjoyed exploring the data here. In lesser news, I’ve started using Umami for web analytics, and I learned about POSSE - Publish (on your) Own Site,
Marder He Wrote #5
This past week, I happened upon the IndieWeb: "When you post something on the web, it should belong to you, not a corporation. Too many companies have gone out of business and lost all of their users’ data. By joining the IndieWeb, your content stays yours and in your
Marder He Wrote #4
This past week, I put together a back-of-the-envelope calculator to compare investing in solar panels vs stocks. I think it looks pretty sweet; I used Observable Plot for the graphs. Let me know what you think! Cheers, Andrew
Marder He Wrote #2
I recently switched from Gmail to Proton Mail (I wanted more privacy). This week I wrote a review of Proton products. TLDR: * VPN: Yay! * Mail: Okay. * Everything else: Nay. In general, I’m trying to get as much of my data out of Google’s watchful eye as possible. I’
Marder He Wrote #1
Welcome to the first episode of Marder He Wrote! This week I decided the blog needed a new catchy name, did I kill it? I also wrote a couple of posts: 1. My lackluster experience as a Meshtastic user 2. Some thoughts on my blogging approach (WIP) Feedback always appreciated!