Simple: Install Linux! Okay, that might sound too blunt, Tomas, but it’s true: The last bare-metal Windows installation in the household, my dedicated “gaming machine”, has recently been reinstalled with GNU/Linux Debian. Microsoft’s passive-aggressive Windows 10 EOL threat doesn’t work on me, or at least not in intended way. Read more

Today on public holiday (in Germany) I polished my Nautilus script collection and uploaded it to Codeberg. For everyone who enjoys automating recurring tasks such as OCR on PDFs, creating animated WebP images from a selection of pictures, or encoding videos in h.. The script collection will be updated from time to time. Read more

Next Friday and Saturday (September, 19th + 20th 2025) you find me at the Kiel Open Source and Linux Days, also known as Kielux. As guest, I’ll be attending a few talks and workshops. Looking forward, Yours, Tomas Jakobs https://www.kielux.de/ ↩︎ Read more

A Bash script I’ve used for many years got some love recently and I’ve uploaded it to Codeberg. The HTTP Limiter is my answer to the bots, scrapers, and pentest tools that constantly hammer on my public facing hosts. Though “hammer” might actually be an understatement. Read more