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About

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A brief introduction

My name is Florian Gächter and I’m the creator of this blog. I started this blog to share things I’ve come across, that I think might help others.

I’ve always been interested in technology and have been a developer for around 17 years.

In my free time, I enjoy the outdoors and spending time with my family. I’m also really into home automation. Mainly because I’m lazy and hate manually turning lights on and off…

Uses

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Uses

I like to browse other people’s “uses” pages, so I decided to write my own. Here’s a list of hardware and software I’m using. Enjoy!

Hardware

MacBook Pro 16-inch, 2024 with Apple M4 Pro for work
ThinkPad T480 for private
ZSA Moonlander keyboard (currently)

Software

I like to self-host as much as possible. A good example is Bitwarden, which I use with Vaultwarden. These are a couple of tools I use most often:

Uberspace

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Uberspace

I recently decided to move my blog from Netlify to Uberspace. It ultimately came down to data sovereignty. With what’s going on in the US, all the AI bullshit you have to deal with when using platforms like Netlify, it just didn’t sit right with me anymore.

But beyond the geographical change, Uberspace offers me almost complete shell access and control over my hosting environment. Even though my blog is just a static site built with Astro, having this level of control means I can make adjustments whenever I need to.

A new keyboard – Meet the Totem

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A new keyboard – Meet the Totem

New year, new keyboard! I’ve been using split keyboards for a while and I’m quite satisfied with the ergonomics. However, one thing that has been bothering me about my current keyboards (Ferris Sweep Tweaked, Lily58, and Aurora Sofle) is the presence of cables. There’s one cable to connect the keyboard to the computer and another cable to connect the two halves of the keyboard. I wanted to eliminate these cables and switch to a wireless keyboard.

An attempt to use Neovim and tmux

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

An attempt to use Neovim and tmux

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been relying on VS Code and PHPStorm as my trusty code editors. These tools have served me well over the years, becoming like my old reliable pair of shoes. Recently, though, I’ve been aware that my mental gears aren’t running quite as smoothly as they once did. Not surprising, as aging tends to have that effect on people.

Simple solution for a valid HTTPS certificate for Home Assistant

Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Simple solution for a valid HTTPS certificate for Home Assistant

You probably know the pain. You want to be smart and try to run all the different services locally in your home network to secure yourself against any possible attacks from the outside. But still, there is this one annoying thing:

While, in my opinion, it’s not too much of a security issue (since the whole traffic is contained to your home network), it’s still bothering me to always have to add an exception for every local site I visit.

Display a motionEye stream in Home Assistant (Lovelace)

Tue, 12 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Display a motionEye stream in Home Assistant (Lovelace)

I’m going to assume you already have a Home Assistant setup running and the motionEye server is working properly. For this example, we’re going to use the mjpeg stream from motionEye.

Get the stream URL

The first thing we need to do is getting the URL we need for the integration. You’ll find it in the “Video Stream” tab in the settings on your motionEye server. I’m using the Fast Network Cam option, but you can use the normal mode as well. If you’re using the normal mode, note down the Snapshot URL too, it can be used for the still_image_url property in the camera integration.

GraphQL File Uploading (Without Apollo…)

Mon, 10 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

GraphQL File Uploading (Without Apollo…)

This quick tutorial explains how to upload files with GraphQL using only plain JavaScript and no frameworks or libraries. It’s not meant as a complete tutorial as I won’t be covering the backend side of the implementation.

The specs

A general specification for file uploads through GraphQL can be found on Github.

The idea is to send a multi-part form request to the server which enables you to easily upload multiple files in one request.