MyTechXperiments &mdash; maxvel's markups https://maxvel.writeas.com/tag:MyTechXperiments My little corner of the internet! Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:24:02 +0000 Tags đź”– https://maxvel.writeas.com/tags?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[This page lists all the tags being used in the blog so that the posts can be easily navigated. In other words, this page satisfies my perpetual need to look back at my past and laugh at my stupidity! !--more-- Categories Each post will be categorised under one of the catgories MyTechXperiments - Related to all the Tech Experiments I have done SelfHostedExperiments - Related to my experiments in my selfhosted setup HowTo - Some Tricks I have figured out when experimenting (Tutorials) SliceOfLife - Excerpt from my own life Opinions - Opinions on some topic (Tech/Books/Life) Tags Each tag relates to a related post in the blog. #Hugo #WriteAs #PersonalWebsite #Blog #Nextcloud #Ecosystem #Files #Photos #Lessons4Life #Photoprism #Seafile #Videos #Minetest #Game Timestamps Click on a timestamp to jump right in to a specific timeframe. June2021]]> This page lists all the tags being used in the blog so that the posts can be easily navigated. In other words, this page satisfies my perpetual need to look back at my past and laugh at my stupidity!

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Each post will be categorised under one of the catgories

#MyTechXperiments – Related to all the Tech Experiments I have done

#SelfHostedExperiments – Related to my experiments in my selfhosted setup

#HowTo – Some Tricks I have figured out when experimenting (Tutorials)

#SliceOfLife – Excerpt from my own life

#Opinions – Opinions on some topic (Tech/Books/Life)

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Each tag relates to a related post in the blog.

#Hugo #WriteAs #PersonalWebsite #Blog #Nextcloud #Ecosystem #Files #Photos #Lessons4Life #Photoprism #Seafile #Videos #Minetest #Game

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]]> https://maxvel.writeas.com/tags Wed, 23 Jun 2021 05:42:42 +0000 Moving out of Nextcloud ⛅️ https://maxvel.writeas.com/moving-out-of-nextcloud?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[I loved Nextcloud. Still do.. But there are certain things that concerns me being somebody who likes to self-host almost every service under my own nest. This month I was thinking seriously about usability and convenience, asking myself questions like, “The efforts that I’m putting into self hosting and maintaining xyz service on my RaspberryPi really worth it? Or should I move to some other service or create an account in somebody else’s self hosted setup?” After this self-introspection, it occurred to me that there are a few changes I had to make in my self hosted setup, and this is a result of a lot of brainstorming related to it. !--more-- Why not Nextcloud? Yes exactly, Why not Nextcloud? It’s amazing. It has a lot of add ons, plugins, custom css and many more. Just make sure you install it properly and you don’t need to worry about installing another service for news/podcasts/calendar/contacts and much more. Yes, I get that. That’s what anyone would tell. But the flipside of the coin is that, you are using one service to be a base for every other type of service you use. So even when one of the service starts being janky, you are deemed to stay with it. Since I use a RaspberryPi to self host most of my services, Nextcloud would take up almost all the memory not to leave any space for any other service I would like to deploy. I used nextcloud as a drop-in replacement for Google drive and Google photos all in one. Eventually I started to make it as my ecosystem keeping my calendar and contacts in sync with it. It’s a really good service but not good enough to be self hosted on a raspberry pi and low-memory chips. What next? I’m planning to move to a diversified ecosystem than putting all my eggs in one basket. I’ll focus on services that does one thing and does it well. (I briefly spoke about it in this toot) And have different services to host files (?seafile) and host photos/videos (?photoprism). So that when they become unusable for my use-case, they can be easily replaced. Hopefully when I upgrade my setup to use machines with better memory, maybe I’ll come back to Nextcloud. Until then, Bye Nextcloud :( Categorized Under #MyTechXperiments Tags : #nextcloud #ecosystem #files #photos #selfhosted Timestamp : #June2021]]> I loved Nextcloud. Still do.. But there are certain things that concerns me being somebody who likes to self-host almost every service under my own nest. This month I was thinking seriously about usability and convenience, asking myself questions like,

“The efforts that I’m putting into self hosting and maintaining xyz service on my RaspberryPi really worth it? Or should I move to some other service or create an account in somebody else’s self hosted setup?”

After this self-introspection, it occurred to me that there are a few changes I had to make in my self hosted setup, and this is a result of a lot of brainstorming related to it.

Why not Nextcloud?

Yes exactly, Why not Nextcloud? It’s amazing. It has a lot of add ons, plugins, custom css and many more. Just make sure you install it properly and you don’t need to worry about installing another service for news/podcasts/calendar/contacts and much more.

Yes, I get that. That’s what anyone would tell. But the flipside of the coin is that, you are using one service to be a base for every other type of service you use. So even when one of the service starts being janky, you are deemed to stay with it. Since I use a RaspberryPi to self host most of my services, Nextcloud would take up almost all the memory not to leave any space for any other service I would like to deploy.

I used nextcloud as a drop-in replacement for Google drive and Google photos all in one. Eventually I started to make it as my ecosystem keeping my calendar and contacts in sync with it. It’s a really good service but not good enough to be self hosted on a raspberry pi and low-memory chips.

What next?

I’m planning to move to a diversified ecosystem than putting all my eggs in one basket. I’ll focus on services that does one thing and does it well. (I briefly spoke about it in this toot) And have different services to host files (?seafile) and host photos/videos (?photoprism). So that when they become unusable for my use-case, they can be easily replaced. Hopefully when I upgrade my setup to use machines with better memory, maybe I’ll come back to Nextcloud. Until then, Bye Nextcloud :(

Categorized Under #MyTechXperiments

Tags : #nextcloud #ecosystem #files #photos #selfhosted

Timestamp : #June2021

]]> https://maxvel.writeas.com/moving-out-of-nextcloud Tue, 15 Jun 2021 08:59:44 +0000 Moving from Hugo to Write.as ✍🏻 https://maxvel.writeas.com/moving-from-hugo-to-write-as-p8d4?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[I never initially thought that I would do this. Maintaining a static generated website using Hugo seemed so customisable and simple then, I didn’t even care to look for other options. But now that I have built my website in write.as, I really hate myself for not trying it sooner. !--more-- What went wrong with hugo? Don’t get me wrong, I really like Hugo. I really love the way it is customisable to its core. You can create new pages from the existing template, or write a new layout altogether. And boy oh boy! there are tons of themes available. All you gotta do is just run a command and the theme is live. I loved this idea so much that I had made my own Theme for Hugo which then was used to theme my own website. However, that’s about where the advantages end. Eventually things started to crumble down when I started putting more efforts in setting up the layout and theme for my website when I should be spending more time writing my articles. In the end of the day I would spend so much time just fixing the layout, I would have no more patience to write an article on top of that. As exciting as building a brand new statically generated fully customisable website sounds, it sure comes with its qualms. …And, Write.as? Yes. So I decided to move to write.as since I believe it offers me a proper balance between customisability and usability. It lacks some features that I enjoyed having in Hugo (separate tags and categories to organize my content well). But I think I’ll find my way around it as I go. Write.as has theming support that lets you add Custom CSS and JS to your site. So yeah! I don’t regret moving to write.as for my personal website and blog. I’ve really missed how I can just jump in, write my mind and publish! ✌🏻 Categorized Under #MyTechXperiments Tags : #Hugo #WriteAs #PersonalWebsite #Blog Timestamp : #June2021]]> I never initially thought that I would do this. Maintaining a static generated website using Hugo seemed so customisable and simple then, I didn’t even care to look for other options. But now that I have built my website in write.as, I really hate myself for not trying it sooner.

What went wrong with hugo?

Don’t get me wrong, I really like Hugo. I really love the way it is customisable to its core. You can create new pages from the existing template, or write a new layout altogether. And boy oh boy! there are tons of themes available. All you gotta do is just run a command and the theme is live. I loved this idea so much that I had made my own Theme for Hugo which then was used to theme my own website.

However, that’s about where the advantages end. Eventually things started to crumble down when I started putting more efforts in setting up the layout and theme for my website when I should be spending more time writing my articles. In the end of the day I would spend so much time just fixing the layout, I would have no more patience to write an article on top of that. As exciting as building a brand new statically generated fully customisable website sounds, it sure comes with its qualms.

…And, Write.as?

Yes. So I decided to move to write.as since I believe it offers me a proper balance between customisability and usability. It lacks some features that I enjoyed having in Hugo (separate tags and categories to organize my content well). But I think I’ll find my way around it as I go. Write.as has theming support that lets you add Custom CSS and JS to your site. So yeah! I don’t regret moving to write.as for my personal website and blog.

I’ve really missed how I can just jump in, write my mind and publish! ✌🏻

Categorized Under #MyTechXperiments

Tags : #Hugo #WriteAs #PersonalWebsite #Blog

Timestamp : #June2021

]]> https://maxvel.writeas.com/moving-from-hugo-to-write-as-p8d4 Sun, 13 Jun 2021 12:27:54 +0000 New Beginning https://maxvel.writeas.com/new-beginning?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[ Originally Posted on Apr 2, 2021 Categorised under #MyTechXperiments I had always been interested in writing about the things that were of interest to me. Especially, when I started coding with technologies that were unknown to me, everyday was a new beginning and everything was something that I can tweak around with and come up with something entirely new to me. The whole process was so exhilarating that I wanted to document it in it’s entirety and write about things that pick my interest. !--more-- Therefore I took the path that was obvious to anybody who would want to write articles on the internet, Medium. To be very honest, I don’t have a problem with Medium. Nor that I had any in the past. But, I always wanted to post my articles in my own domain where I have more control over my infrastructure and my content. Where I TRULY own my content. It was not possible in the past since I wasn’t so technically sound to build an infrastructure for web hosting, and renting one was a far cry. 8 months ago, I bought my first raspberrypi microcontroller to learn networking and self hosting. And I was also fascinated by the infinite possibilities of building things with this credit-card sized computer. Hosting my own website was definitely not a priority to me then. I just wanted to acquire knowledge, so much that, I don’t panic when things go wrong with my setup (which happens all the time). And it definitely took me a lot of making-and-breaking to get things setup properly and finally to be able to host my own website and post my articles in my domain. (Of which this is a first one) Currently I self host Nextcloud (A self hosted cloud), Jellyfin (A self hosted media center) and Gitea (A self hosted git service) On my raspberrypi microcontroller and access these services outside of my home network. And I’m amazed by how modular and convenient the setup could be when combined with docker to manage the containers running on top of the host. Self hosting has given me a new dimension to think about the tools that I could use to make my digital life more convenient and more user friendly. It has also been an amazing place for me to learn things that I have never thought I would ever come across. I have learned more about things that would not work than things that would. All in all it was a fun journey. And cheers to many more to come. :)]]>

Originally Posted on Apr 2, 2021

Categorised under #MyTechXperiments

I had always been interested in writing about the things that were of interest to me. Especially, when I started coding with technologies that were unknown to me, everyday was a new beginning and everything was something that I can tweak around with and come up with something entirely new to me. The whole process was so exhilarating that I wanted to document it in it’s entirety and write about things that pick my interest.

Therefore I took the path that was obvious to anybody who would want to write articles on the internet, Medium. To be very honest, I don’t have a problem with Medium. Nor that I had any in the past. But, I always wanted to post my articles in my own domain where I have more control over my infrastructure and my content. Where I TRULY own my content. It was not possible in the past since I wasn’t so technically sound to build an infrastructure for web hosting, and renting one was a far cry.

8 months ago, I bought my first raspberrypi microcontroller to learn networking and self hosting. And I was also fascinated by the infinite possibilities of building things with this credit-card sized computer. Hosting my own website was definitely not a priority to me then. I just wanted to acquire knowledge, so much that, I don’t panic when things go wrong with my setup (which happens all the time). And it definitely took me a lot of making-and-breaking to get things setup properly and finally to be able to host my own website and post my articles in my domain. (Of which this is a first one)

Currently I self host Nextcloud (A self hosted cloud), Jellyfin (A self hosted media center) and Gitea (A self hosted git service) On my raspberrypi microcontroller and access these services outside of my home network. And I’m amazed by how modular and convenient the setup could be when combined with docker to manage the containers running on top of the host. Self hosting has given me a new dimension to think about the tools that I could use to make my digital life more convenient and more user friendly. It has also been an amazing place for me to learn things that I have never thought I would ever come across. I have learned more about things that would not work than things that would. All in all it was a fun journey. And cheers to many more to come. :)

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