In a recent project, our architect decided to use ArangoDB as a database. I am not familiar with that, but it seems like one of these fancy hipster NoSQL stuff - at least it is written in node.js. But who am i to judge? As the responsible DevOps engineer i needed a solution for backuping the database. There is this fancy Backup Operator but unfortunately it is not available for the community version of ArangoDB....

During the peaks of Corona, when both my girlfriend and i worked from home, we had some situations where one of us was in a call, and should not get disturbed. The usual open/closed door indicator did not work, because if we let the doors to our working rooms stay open, our cat would come by and require attention, which is not a good idea if you want to do some uninterrupted work....

I am a huge fan of IoT and smart home. For that reason, i have deployed an instance of Home Assistant to my home server and am thriving to get all kinds of sensor data into the system which then gets evaluated by automation scripts. One challenge i wanted to face: Sometimes when i am playing games with headphones, or simply when i am at the far end of our apartment (which is quite big) i do not hear the doorbell, which can be a bit inconvenient....

Recently i searched for a way to clean up my tinkering corner in my work room. Like many others i stumbled upon the Ikea SKADIS pegboard series and was hooked - literally. The internet is full of STL files to 3d-print various hooks, shelves and mounts for different objects for this board, so i booted my Ender 3 and went ahead. During this process i also wanted to mount the base station of my Netatmo weather station to this board, since it currently was just sitting on a table in the corner of my room....

As you may have noticed, i am not the most frequent author - despite having lots of projects going on, which i could write about. I want to change that. Lucky me i stumbled upon the “One thing a week” challenge, which aims toward doing, documenting and telling one thing a week to you, my dearest readers. I think, i’ll accept this challenge. Last week, i already told you about a template for Obsidian, which i would count as week zero....