I changed my blogging platform from Wordpress to Pelican. Pelican is a static html generator written in Python. I also changed the whole design. It’s a bootstrap-theme with some little modifications.

The reason I changed from Wordpress is the effort to maintain a secure and up-to-date installation opposed to …

I needed a script that checks:

• whether a cronjob ran at its determined date (that means it runs regularly)
• if the cronjob ran successfully

It should also be monitor-able via Nagios. That means, it should provide a meaningful output for when something went wrong with the cronjob, e.g. “CRITICAL …

I’m going to describe how to set up Freenas with the popular plugins couchpotato, sickBeard or sickRage and transmission to use them for downloading movies or series and streaming them via DLNA as well as mounting the storage on Linux.

This post is also available in German!

I integrated …

Today I want to present my Tiny Tiny RSS-installation, running on my own VPS.

tt-rss is “an open source web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) reader and aggregator, designed to allow you to read news from any location, while feeling as close to a real desktop application as possible.”

Preface …

Via Allan McRae I found out about YoutubeCenter, a userscript and/or add-on for Firefox and Chrome.

This script come with many handy features that make the Youtube experience way nicer!

Some really nice features I used are:

• Remove ads
• Resize the player
• Buffer the video even when paused
• Provides …