This blog is a collection of all kinds of tips, tricks and alike. Content for beginners as well as for tech-savvy people can be found here, from software like browsers to server administration until hardware.
I’m usually not a big fan of the term “essential” apps, especially since most of the lists out there are just the same 30 – 40 apps that you already know about. In this blog post I focus more on some tools you might not know yet but which definitely can make you more productive. Of course, it always depends on your use cases.
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Recently, I switched from TrueNAS Core to TrueNAS SCALE (without any hassle) and don’t regret it ever since. Let’s talk about the reasons why.
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After migrating from TrueNAS Core to TrueNAS SCALE, I noticed that my OneDrive cloud sync tasks are not working anymore. This is due to the removal of the formerly used OneDrive implementation. Since it was outdated and won’t work with the Python version shipped with TrueNAS SCALE Bluefin, it has been removed from TrueNAS SCALE itself.
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This post is the last one I will share on Twitter. It’s just time to move on and the journey goes towards Mastodon. There are multiple reasons why.
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For every new major version, PhpStorm creates new folders for caches and settings. And despite having a successful upgrade, the old folders won’t be removed automatically. This behavior uses much unnecessary disk space.
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Apple changed the way Safari looks in iOS 15 by moving the address bar at the bottom. Not everyone likes it and you can restore the old behavior if desired.
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MailHog can be used to reliable test sending emails in your local development environment. It catches sent emails and displays them in an own web user interface.
MailHog can be installed without a hassle via brew in macOS.
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Since I was not satisfied with the performance of MAMP PRO and also used my local development environment mainly within the scope of localhost and not within multiple hosts, I decided to install a combination of nginx, MySQL and PHP via brew.
brew is a package manager, which allows to install many packages without a hassle.
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z-push allows you to extend your mail server with ActiveSync capabilities, e. g. support for push notifications on Apple’s iOS. That way, you can get earlier information about new emails on your iPhone and iPad. Since I couldn’t fine any complete guide on how to setup z-push within your already working setup with a mail server and nginx, I decided to create my own.
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A while ago I setup FastCGI Microcaching for this website at https://kittmedia.com to improve the page load time dramatically. Now, a while later, I noticed that some HTTP headers are missing in the server responses even if they were added in the configuration. Even after a Google search I couldn’t find any explanation but noticed that the X-Cache header I added for indicating if the microcache hits was added successfully.
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