Writing

Things I figured out
worth writing down.

I Automated Our TikTok Carousels. Posting Was the Easy Part.

A friend and I just started a software studio and neither of us had time to post every day. So I built a pipeline that turns tech news into source-checked TikTok carousels twice a day. The automation works. The views are another story.

Sep 20268 min read

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SaaS

DriveFlow: The Swiss Driving School Platform I Built to Kill Paper

DriveFlow replaces paper, spreadsheets, and WhatsApp for Swiss driving schools. One app with three dashboards for students, instructors, and school owners. Built by Aeternum Software, entering pilot phase.

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Aug 2026

5 min

Hardware

The PS Vita Never Had Cloud Saves. So I Built One.

The PS Vita never got PS Plus cloud saves. Transferring progress between a Fat, Slim, and PS TV meant VitaShell FTP every time. I forked a Chinese homebrew app and made a self-hosted save sync tool for all three devices.

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Jun 2026

7 min

Homelab

How to Set Up a Self-Hosted Media Server with Plex, Sonarr, and Radarr

How to replace streaming subscriptions with a self-hosted Plex, Sonarr, and Radarr stack on Proxmox and Docker. Full pipeline walkthrough, real costs, and what daily use looks like compared to Netflix.

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Jun 2026

7 min

Hardware

ARK-5 on a PSP 1000: Why I Traded TikTok for Retro Gaming

ARK-5 is the most actively maintained PSP custom firmware in 2026. Here's how I installed it on a PSP 1000, what it unlocks, and what I found after a month of gaming on the commute instead of doomscrolling.

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May 2026

7 min

Social

DailyBite — a social snack app built Swiss-first

The Znüni is a Swiss daily ritual. No app had ever treated it as a product. Here's how I built one — real supermarket data from five chains, a gamification layer that works, and a product designed for young Swiss people from the first migration.

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May 2026

6 min

App Dev

Building BeThere

A privacy-first event app built for Switzerland. Real plans, not group chats. This project is discontinued.

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Dec 2025

5 min

Homelab

The Ultimate Home Server

A self-hosted media and automation powerhouse running on Proxmox VE — Plex with 18TB of storage, a full Usenet automation stack, Home Assistant, and more.

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Nov 2025

8 min

Topics

TikTokAutomationAICodexDeepSeekNode.jsSocial MediaAeternumNext.jsSupabaseStripePWASwissSaaSFahrschulePS VitaHomebrewSelf-HostedHENkakuRetroGamingRustPlexSonarrRadarrDockerProxmoxUsenetSelf-hostedPSPCFWARK-5React NativeExpoGamificationpg_cronMapLibreMobileHome AssistantLinux

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Things I figured outworth writing down.

I Automated Our TikTok Carousels. Posting Was the Easy Part.

DriveFlow: The Swiss Driving School Platform I Built to Kill Paper

The PS Vita Never Had Cloud Saves. So I Built One.

How to Set Up a Self-Hosted Media Server with Plex, Sonarr, and Radarr

ARK-5 on a PSP 1000: Why I Traded TikTok for Retro Gaming

DailyBite — a social snack app built Swiss-first

Building BeThere

The Ultimate Home Server

Things I figured out
worth writing down.