Articles and Publications

Only my articles and publications in English can be found on this page. Contents that I wrote in German can be found here.

Check if your web server supports keep-alive for HTTP/1.1 connections

This guide describes how to check if your web server supports keep-alive for HTTP/1.1 connections.

Script to validate XML sitemaps against the XML schema

This guide describes how to validate XML sitemap files and XML sitemap index files against their XML schema using xmllint.

Setup and run a Sia host on a Raspberry Pi 3/4

This guide describes all the steps to setup and maintain a Sia host using Ubuntu, Docker and a Raspberry Pi 3 or 4.

Solar Powered Sensor with Supercapacitors and ESP32

This page documents my idea of building a solar powered sensor with supercapacitors and a WLAN enabled ESP32 microcontroller.

Extract titles and meta descriptions using a shell script

I created a small shell script that helps to extract titles and meta descriptions from all URLs of a website.

Static Website with Hugo, Cloudflare and Automated Builds using Google Cloud

This guide shows howto setup a static website using a Google Cloud Space bucket and Cloudflare as a CDN. In addition the setup utilizes a git repository and build triggers from the Google Cloud for an automated build system.

Compile and install OpenTTD on a Raspberry Pi and run a dedicated server

This post covers the installation of OpenTTD under raspbian from source. It also covers installing 32bit graphics, universal rail type, the config setup and the setup of a startscript.

Fix Encoding Issues in Putty - Set Translation and Terminal-type

I had encoding problems with Putty and learned how to fix them. This is a small guide.