Taking a good group photo consists of multiple aspects: I can say with confidence that nearly everything here comes from having failed to do these things right at least once, even on the latest attempts, so this is an ideal to reach towards…
A question came up in private conversations, but the answer IMHO is useful generally, so this is a repost. The question was generally on the topic of divercity and outreach - if it does really help underpriviledged people to give them some
This February (2026) marks a full 10 years since I started working for BMW, and a key employment bonus is the ability to drive a company car on special two-year leasing terms. Just before the new year 2026 started, I said goodbye to my late…
The use of snapshots has been routine in both Debian and Ubuntu for several years now—or more than 15 years for Debian, to be precise. Snapshots have become not only very reliable, but also an increasingly important part of the Debian packa…
Debconf 25 came to the end in Brest, France this year a couple weeks ago. This has been a very different and unusually interesting Debconf. For me it was for two, related reasons: for one the conference was close enough in Western Europe th…
Debconf 24 is coming to a close in Busan, South Korea this year. I thought that last year in India was hot. This year somehow managed to beat that. With 35C and high humidity the 55 km that I managed to walk between the two conference build…
At the end of the last part of this, we got a Home Assistant OS installation that contains in itself a Firefly III instance and that contains all the current financial information. They are communicating and calculating predictions for me.
At the end of the last part of this, we got a Home Assistant OS installation that contains in itself a Firefly III instance and that contains all the current financial information. Now I will try to connect the two. While it could be nice t…
So now that I have something that looks very much like a budgeting setup going, I am going to .. delete it! Why? Well, at the end of the last part of this, the Firefly III instance was running on a tiny Debian server in a Docker container r…
A week ago I started to migrate my financial planning from a closed source system to a new system based on an open source, self-hosted solution. Main candidate is Firefly III - a relatively simple financial planner with a rather rich featur…
I have been managing my finances and getting an overview of where I am financially and where I am going month-to-month for a few years already. That means that I already have a method of doing my finances and a method of thinking about them…
Two weeks have passed since Debconf 23 came to a close in Kochi, Kerala, India this year. In keeping with the more relaxed nature of Debconf in India, the rest of my photos from the event were to be published about two weeks from the end of…