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2026
You should self-host your mail server - maybe even at home - because spam is a solved problemoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2026
2025
The ultimate Raspberry Pi gitops cluster - Booting and auto provisioning a Docker Swarm cluster with PXE and enjoying zero-downtime deployments from a single git repositoryoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2025
2024
Sending Emails to my 3-year-old - How I'm using email and timecapsules as a fun legacy for my son to findoriginal ↗
5 May 2024
2023
Let's Encrypt wildcard certificates - the easy way - Using DNS standalone - No credentials needed and working with every DNS provideroriginal ↗
1 Oct 2023
ZFS over iSCSI storage in Proxmox - all the power of ZFS without needing large disks in your nodesoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2023
2021
Simple Raspberry Pi powered SMS Gateway - make your projects send SMS with a simple REST APIoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2021
Build your own datacenter with PXE and Alpine - Who needs docker when you can run old laptops as blade serversoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2021
How I heat my home by mining crypto currencies - and cutting my electricity bill in half in the processoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2021
2020
31 Oct 2020
13 Aug 2020
2019
App controlled garden irrigation system for less than 20 Bucks - put those Raspberry Pis you have laying around to a good useoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2019
Threat vector: Legacy static websites - Surely old HTTP-only sites can't be vulnerable if not updated for 5 years, right?original ↗
24 Feb 2019
I scanned the whole country of Austria and this is what I've found - IP cameras, printers, industrial controls to name a few..original ↗
8 Feb 2019
The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet - how we found, analyzed (with the help of Reddit) and in the end caught the culprit of a malicious device in our networkoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2019
2018
Making a smart meter out of a dumb one for 4 $ - and displaying it on an awesome dashboardoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2018
31 Aug 2018
How to fight child pornography with a Raspberry Pi and deep learning - Finding illegal content with just 10 Watts of poweroriginal ↗
17 Jun 2018
Reverse engineering your mobile banking app - to make a PHP script that automates checking your balancesoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2018
2017
Teaching your fish tank LEDs new tricks - for just a few bucks and you can even make some virtual cloudsoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2017
Making an awesome dashboard for your crypto currencies in 3 steps - using InfluxDB, Grafana and PHPoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2017
5 Jul 2017
Creating the safest ETH paper wallet with a Raspberry Pi - with a printer and without an internet connectionoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2017
Accepting Ethereum payments without external services - You don't need to pay for merchant systemsoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2017
Making a simple Raspberry Pi Bitcoin/Ethereum trading bot - with rocket.chat and Slack status reportingoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2017
Is Guetzli useful in production? - It's much better than google promised - 51% smaller imagesoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2017
My door sends me chat messages - Raspberry Pi powered door sensor and Rocket.Chat bot with some neat infooriginal ↗
23 Jan 2017
2016
How a scammer stole 500$ from me and in the end begged me not to tell his parents - Thank god not all scammers are professionalsoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2016
Forget Pay2Win - the time has come for Learn2Win - how to reward players in any game for academic achievementsoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2016
Why hackits are the first thing I teach new classes - they represent everything I love about computer scienceoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2016
My company just turned 10 and it was quite a ride - also: about the time Thomas Schranz and I almost invented Dropboxoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2016
2015
That (not so) awesome time the police raided my home - lesson learned: Don't click on links random people send youoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2015
27 Sept 2015
DIY: Cheap wall mounted, water cooled PC for 51$ - with LED backlight and and all the good stufforiginal ↗
27 Sept 2015
Why are free proxies free? - because it's an easy way to infect thousands of users and collect their dataoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2015
What would happen if you'd embed a remote JPEG with a HTTP link but the remote server is forcing HTTPS? -original ↗
26 Jun 2015
Repairing a closed loop CPU water cooler with aquarium tubing - air bubbles... those f***ing air bubblesoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2015
19 Mar 2015
Announcing: Socialcube LITE - My proof-of-concept evolved to a intuitive platform which is free for every educational institutionoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2015