Daniels website - tech

forgot my laptop somewhere (backup update)

2025-06-02T00:00:00+00:00

Recently I’ve commuted back and forth to a city in the south of Germany to attend a conference for a day. The night I ended up staying at family that lived closer there but on my way back by train I’ve quickly seen that I forgot my laptop there.

This post will go through problems that made me discover in my backup system which I’ve already outlined in the first backup post</a>.

Forgetting the Laptop somewhere is obviously not too tragic, because I knew it would only be for a few days, but not having access to it illustrated how my backups work the same as if the laptop got stolen or something else would’ve happened to it.

Switching from pages.sr.ht to nginx on a VPS

2025-01-28T00:00:00+00:00

On the 12th of December 24 I’ve written about switching from hugo to zola and github pages to zola. Now around 1.5 months later I’ve done a further step and changed from having the website hosted on sr.ht pages to hosting it myself on a hetzner server with nginx in a more traditional matter. In the following I’ll outline why and very shortly some words around it.

Backup Considerations

2024-12-30T00:00:00+00:00

preface</h2>
The last few days I’ve been working and battling with my backups and other recovery devices due to wanting to switch the main nvme drive on my thinkpad t470 that I use daily.
It was a nice way to ensure recoverability of my whole system on imaginable incidents that could happen, such as:

device just dies</li>
get robbed</li>
device breaks</li>
lose the device</li>
drive corrupts</li>
I enter a wrong command</li> </ul>
In the following I go through thoughts and the process of what I’ll change now to streamline the system to make it a faster recoverable and more reliant.

little efforts that make life easier, eventually

2024-12-29T00:00:00+00:00

There were some efforts I’ve done the last years that have repaid multiple times by now, want to mention them here individually and talk some sentences about them.

Order is as follows:

vim</li>
tiling window managers</li>
split keyboards</li>
keyboard layouts</li>
declarative operating systems (nixos)</li> </ol>
One last comment before starting, the order is taken from the order in which I stumbeled upon them.

rewriting the website from hugo to zola

2024-12-06T00:00:00+00:00

Hey, haven’t heard from me in a bit?

Was busy with rewriting this website, living life and taking care of another website project that will probably slowly be merged into this blog.

But in the meantime I spent some time on figuring out zola and using that instead of hugo.

I’ve gotten it recommended and not really getting hugo I thought there is not too much that can go wrong with trying to figure it out, so I did. In the following are some thoughts I had along the way, not just with hugo but also hosting the site.

Changing the Domain

2024-04-13T00:00:00+00:00

You probably already noticed if you’re here, the domain has changed from https://d-rens.site</code> to https://d-rens.xyz</code> on the 13th april 2024. </blockquote>
Why switching the domain?</h2> I have changed the domain for simple reasons. Had the domain on namecheap and transfer to porkbun would’ve cost ~$20.</li> The domain renewal (with .site) also cost $23, after the first year cost $1.96.</li> </ol>



Handwritten Notes
2024-04-01T00:00:00+00:00
preamble</h2>
The last few weeks I’ve had to do a lot of learning for mathematics, that means
just solving and trying to understand tasks around six hours day (afterwards
the brain stops working). But that has brought me to an issue of the notes I’ve
taken by hand. So time has come to rethink another part of my workflow.</p>


Keyboard Layout
2024-01-23T00:00:00+00:00
Step One – Realisation</h1>
Having typed all my life on qwerty or qwertz I got used to it. I got into
practising typing to gain speed and accuracy, towards the end I averaged around
90 words per minute (wpm) and had a accuracy of >95%.</p>
But at some point I got fed up with it, why did I still use the normal layout?
That has no reason for existing any more and that after I have switched to
a tiling-window-manager, vim and countless other things, just to get the last
seconds off the clock and have the computer do whatever I want it to do as
fast as possible.</p>


Dactyl
2023-10-10T00:00:00+00:00
The Dactyl Experience</h1>

  
  figure 1: picture of the finished keyboard</em></figcaption>
</figure>
Preface</h2>
During the last days and weeks I’ve spend some of my time soldering,
configuring and figuring about a dactyl keyboard. Now it is done and I can now
type much more ergonimic and better than I could before, in the following I
will talk about the process and maybe you can get something out of it :).</p>


Workflow (2023)
2023-07-26T00:00:00+00:00
About the setup</h1>
The goal of the workflow is to be ever evolving to be more efficient and
useful. The main application of it is to write LaTeX documents, manage references,
figures, etc. So that one does not need to think about it anymore but
has a good experience using it and the optimal output.</p>


Rss
2023-07-18T00:00:00+00:00
In times of constant notifications, information and news it is hard to keep up
with your actual interest.</p>

Daniels website - tech

forgot my laptop somewhere (backup update)

Switching from pages.sr.ht to nginx on a VPS

Backup Considerations

little efforts that make life easier, eventually

rewriting the website from hugo to zola

Changing the Domain

Why switching the domain?</h2> I have changed the domain for simple reasons.</p> Had the domain on namecheap and transfer to porkbun would’ve cost ~$20.</li> The domain renewal (with .site) also cost $23, after the first year cost $1.96.</li> </ol>

Handwritten Notes

Keyboard Layout

Dactyl

Workflow (2023)

Rss

`Why switching the domain?</h2> I have changed the domain for simple reasons.</p> Had the domain on namecheap and transfer to porkbun would’ve cost ~$20.</li> The domain renewal (with .site) also cost $23, after the first year cost $1.96.</li> </ol>`