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Latest Post Jan 22, 2026

TYPO3 Crawler with TYPO3 14 Support

Earlier this week, TYPO3 14.1 was released, I'm happy to announce that the TYPO3 Crawler (dev-main branch), now supports TYPO3 14 and PHP 8.5. There is no release yet of the TYPO3 Crawler, but one can you dev-main if you want to. The changes happened...
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Laptop with editor and oh my zsh open

January 18, 2026

Oh My Zsh

I have for as long as I can remember been using ZSH as shell for my Linux installations. I haven't found anything that I like more till this date. I have never come across a Linux or BSD distribution...
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Pair of Bose Quite Comfort Noise Cancellation Headphones

January 17, 2026

Bluetooth sound quality on Linux

I have owned a pair of Bose QuietComfort headphones for years, but I recently upgraded from the wired version to a Bluetooth model. While they have worked flawlessly on my Lenovo Carbon X1 laptop...
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Sparkle Intel Arc A380 ELF GPU

January 14, 2026

Sparkle Intel Arc A380 ELF on Linux

I recently finished a new build, and the performance gains over my last setup are impressive. I'm not a gamer, so I didn't have many requirements for a GPU other than having 2-3 DisplayPorts and...
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January 13, 2026

OpenVPN Specific Version

From time to time, VPN servers use older software, requiring an older OpenVPN version that isn't always available in the repositories of your chosen Linux distribution. This post shows you how to...
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Harbor with Container Ships

December 29, 2025

Multiple Docker images, One Dockerfile

Docker is already loved by many people, so every step to make it a little easier to maintain I find more than welcome. Often I have Docker images where the only difference is a version constrain...
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December 22, 2025

TYPO3 Crawler - 20 Years in the TYPO3 Ecosystem

On December 22nd, 2025, the TYPO3 Crawler officially turned 20 years old. On that day back in 2005, the TYPO3 Crawler was uploaded publicly for the very first time. Since then, it has quietly but...
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Ubuntu Terminal

December 8, 2025

Ubuntu on 2013 MacBook Pro

I have an old MacBook Pro from 2013, which my girlfriend is using for yoga only. This has not become any updates for a long time. So now I have decided to "renew" it, with a fresh installation of...
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Server racks with multiple servers

November 25, 2025

Debian - Update Bookworm to Trixie

Like many other you might have choosen to run your servers on Debian, me included. To update to the latest Debian 13 (Trixie), the following steps is required. Disclaimer: Always take backups...
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November 24, 2025

Hetzner (affiliated)

It's no secret that I host my services on Hetzner and I have done for many years now. I have set up multiple services at the servers ranging from simple webservers to kubernetes clusters. So far I...
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Picture of a store front with SALE written in red

November 21, 2025

Black Friday Donations

Instead of buying stuff you don't need anyway on Black Friday one should donate a little something to some of all the cool Open Source projects they use on regular basic. I will personally donate...
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October 24, 2025

Who am I?

I know the articles are a little old, but I wanted to share them to give you a little perspective to who I am. Some years ago there was some written and podcast interview with me, and these are the...
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GitHub Logo Figure in standing on a laptop

October 11, 2025

GitHub Profile README

GitHub have for quite some time given you the possibility to add a nice profile on github, by creating a repository with the same name as your GitHub username, in my case...
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Mechanical Harddisk

August 22, 2025

Resize harddisk in Proxmox VM

From time to time one would want/need to resize the disk size of a Proxmox VM. This can be done fairly easy with some few steps. Log into your proxmox Log into the VM with ssh Now you have...
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Snow covered mountains

July 16, 2025

Switch to alpinejs for mobile menu toggle

I'm not really a frontend developer kind of person, so I try to keep it as simple as possible, Alpine.js helps me with that. Below you can see the diff, or directly on GitHub if you prefer. Now I...
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Spiderweb with waterdrops on it

July 14, 2025

TYPO3 Crawler - 10 Years of contributions

Somewhen in 1998, I didn't have the money for buying my Licenses for my Windows, and I started to look for other legal alternatives. I was then introduced to Linux and Open Source. It took me some...
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The corner of a blue shipping container with a clear blue sky in the background

June 29, 2025

Kamal Deploy

After I have been using a total overkill setup for my private hosting a k3s cluster, for more than two years, I decided to cut some costs and complexity. I have now switched to a Kamal Deploy setup...
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Blue jigsaw puzzle, with a missing piece in the center

June 6, 2025

Jigsaw - replace vue with Alpine.js

After updating to version 1.8.0 of tightenco/jigsaw, I saw that their blog-repository had been updated to use Alpine.js instead of vue for the search. So I decided to update my blog, to be a little...
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Internet led sign beside building near buildings

May 20, 2025

Freelancer

I'm excited to share a new chapter in my life — I have started working as a freelancer! My focus areas include TYPO3, general PHP development, DevOps, and automation. If you're looking for support...
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Person click on large touchscreen

April 25, 2025

Disable touchscreen on Wayland

I'm not a fan ouf touchscreen on my laptop, so I was looking for a way to disable it. Now you can disabled it too. First we need to identify the VID (Vendor ID) and PID (Product ID), this can be...
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Laptop with Arch Linux sticker

March 15, 2025

Wifi on Arch Linux

This is a short intro on how to set up Wi-Fi on Arch Linux. In your cli you need to run the iwctl The prompt will now look like this. Now type the following commands You are...
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Screenshot of a gitlog

February 3, 2025

Git Alias

Git is an amazing tool, I personally use a git wip alias all the time, which gives a nice overview of which branches have been worked on lately. You can add following to your...
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Ballons released into the air

January 29, 2025

TYPO3 Crawler with TYPO3 13 LTS Support

The "latest" version of the TYPO3 Crawler 12.0.6 comes with TYPO3 13 LTS support. It's been overdue for too long, but now it's out. Only four days later, a new release was created...
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Elephpant on MacBook

December 27, 2024

PHP 8.4 on Ubuntu 24.10

As of December 2024, the Ondřej Surý PPA does not provide support for Ubuntu 24.10. This limitation affects the installation of PHP versions, including PHP 8.4, on this Ubuntu release. To install...
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Squid swimming

November 15, 2024

Squid proxy for apt packages and more

Do you have multiple computers on the same network fetching the same packages or content from the internet? Then a proxy server might be right for you. I'll show you have to set it up. Prerequisite...
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A computer keyboard with RGB backlight

October 29, 2024

My blog is public

I don't know if you are aware, but my blog is fully public at https://github.com/tomasnorre/dk-tomasnorre-blog, you can have a peak, get inspired on how to setup your own blog. You can copy/paste...
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Overview of a harbour with a lot of containers

February 2, 2022

Any docker images to be updated?

Keeping docker images up to date, can be a challenge, I'm not talking about the images you maintain yourself, but the public ones that you're relying on. These needs to be updated from time to time...
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Green Robot in focus

October 24, 2021

Robots.txt with Jigsaw

Setting up a robots.txt can be helpful to help search engines what to crawl on your website and what not. Setting it up within Jigsaw is fairly simple. This is how I did...
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Office desk with iMac

October 21, 2021

Set default headers with Nginx

Working with web-development, one need to take HTTP Headers into consideration to. Not every web-application sets the headers that could help on security. One of the headers is...
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Library shelf with a lot of books.

October 16, 2021

Reading Productivity

I have always wanted to read more! You know that feeling? I do very well. I have some "problems" that "keeps" me from reading more. This little post is about how I have tackled them. First off,...
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A tray of cookies

October 15, 2021

Tracking, but no Cookies

I know I stated in my post No Tracking, No Cookies, that I didn't want to have any tracking. But I decided to test plausible.io to see if I generate any traffic at all on my site. This is cheaper...
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Painted jigsaw

July 28, 2021

Setting up a blog with Jigsaw

With the blog post you will learn how to set up you own blog with Jigsaw. open your terminal, and type in And that's it for now. Now you can watch you blog Now go to...
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Some cookies on a plate, with bowl and a baking equipment on the side

July 12, 2021

No tracking, no cookies

As I want this blog to be as simple as possible, and I want to have it compliant with GDPR, I have decided to not have any tracking nor cookies. The blog is a collection of static generated HTML...
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A wall with a counter, flower, lamp and a clock hanging on the wall

July 11, 2021

Honey I'm home

I have been quiet, regarding blogging, for quite some time now. I have always wanted to write more even though I'm not great at it. Someone ones said: Practice makes perfect The last year I...
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