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Andrej Friesen

Andrej Friesen

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Hey, I am Andrej and I run this blog.

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Useful resources for blogging and content creation I always forget

Useful resources for blogging and content creation I always forget

I always forget the useful tools and links for creating content and blog posts. So here is a list of my used tools and sites.

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OPNsense Upgrade
Home Lab and Hardware

OPNsense Upgrade

How to upgrade the OPNsense Firmware for PC Engine APUs.

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A lamp which looks like a goose
Weekly Musings

Weekly Musings #3 - vacation, statistics, and iPod Classic

Snowboarding, statistics for February 2022 and iPod Classic comeback

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Let's Encrypt Logo - A padlock

Hotel WiFi does not work - captive portal not showing

Sometimes the captive portal does not show and you can not use the free internet. Here is the solution how to access the captive portal for every free, hotel or public WiFi.

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Happy face drawn on a stone
Weekly Musings

Weekly Musings #2

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Silverstone DS380B mod - How To Fit a Normal Size PCI Card into the SilverStone DS380 without losing a HDD slot
Home Lab and Hardware

Silverstone DS380B mod - How To Fit a Normal Size PCI Card into the SilverStone DS380 without losing a HDD slot

How to use all 8 drive bays in the SilverStone DS380B with a full-size HBA card for your SFF DIY NAS.

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Weekly Musings #1 - First time streaming
Weekly Musings

Weekly Musings #1 - First time streaming

First time live coding on Twitch, playing around with the ODROID-HC4s and other random stuff.

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PiKVM in steel case with ATX board for power on, off and reset commands

PiKVM review - How to Control Your PC or Laptop remotely

A PiKVM review. A device to control any PC remotely. A dream for every home labber and people who work as admins against their will.

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First-time Flutter Live Coding Experiment

First-time Flutter Live Coding Experiment

First live stream experiment. Will do some flutter development today (05.02.2022 at 07:00 PM CET).

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Telegraf Logo (a tiger) from InfluxData Mascots

Add Plugins to the Telegraf Docker Container and keep the Container Size small

How to add external plugins to the Telegraf docker container while keeping container size as small as possible.

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Pressure Stall Information (PSI) in influx format
Linux

Creating an external Telegraf Plugin to push Pressure Stall Information (PSI) metrics to InfluxDB

I created an external Telegraf plugin to add Pressure Stall Information (PSI) metrics to InfluxDB.

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Scrabble game spelling: In Lifting Others We Rise

Helping out Friends getting into IT - Mentoring

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Animated comic clock asking for time
Today I learned

How to Fix Linux and Windows Showing Different Times When Dual Booting

Fix the time offset when dual-booting Linux and Windows.

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3 cats in and before a fridge explains the HTTP status code 300 - Multiple Choices

A new chapter - Going to work part-time and start my own thing

Starting to work more on my own things. Will it be a Flutter app, more blogging, live streaming? I have no set plan yet but some ideas.

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Blog Comments and Forum!

Blog Comments and Forum!

My website has comments now. And a forum for a yet non-existing community!

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Delete key of a keyboard with red backlight
Self-Hosting

I deleted my blog - damn

Again a stupid mistake from my side. This is the downside when self-hosting. You do will do mistakes. This is one of them.

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breadboard with an ESP8266 and other components
PokyPow

My first electronic hardware: a remote pc-switch for Home Assistant

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Different air quality measurements like temperature, humidity, CO2 ppm, etc. in a dashboard
Home Automation

Measuring Air Quality in your Home Office

Measure Air Quality in your Home Office with Home Assistant

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Weather forecast and rain radar in home assistant
Home Automation

Rain Warning Sensor with Home Assistant

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Tuxedo Aura 15 laptop on lap outside in the park
Home Lab and Hardware

Tuxedo Aura 15 Review - A Good Linux Laptop

A personal review for the Tuxedo Aura 15 from a long time Linux user and developers perspective

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Graph showing visitor count peak in the middle because of sharing on Reddit

The Reddit Impact

The impact of Reddit and what I learned from that.

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Pen holding up a laptop
Home Lab and Hardware

Dell Latitude 5310 - bad performance on Linux

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Sonoff Basic
Home Automation

Smart bed heater update

Smart bed heater update with integrated timer function in ESPHome.

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Bed with snow in the window
Home Automation

Winter is coming - Build your own "smart" bed warmer

How to build a smart bed warmer with Home Assistant.

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How to choose an HBA card for your NAS or Server
Home Lab and Hardware

How to choose an HBA card for your NAS or Server

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UptimeRobot Logo
Home Automation

Free Uptime Monitoring and Alerting for your Home Assistant

How to monitor Home Assistant or any other service with a free monitoring tool: UptimeRobot

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Docker logs do not show everything when using grep
Today I learned

Docker logs do not show everything when using grep

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My blog was down
Self-Hosting

My blog was down

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Boot several ISO images from a single USB thumb drive with Ventoy
Today I learned

Boot several ISO images from a single USB thumb drive with Ventoy

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Monitoring SMART Data for your HDDs and SSDs
Linux

Monitoring SMART Data for your HDDs and SSDs

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