Writing

Things I figured out
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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.

Jun 20267 min read

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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

Installing ARK-5 CFW 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

SaaS

Building a Multi-tenant SaaS with Supabase RLS and Stripe Connect

How we built DriveFlow, a mobile-first SaaS for driving schools, using Supabase Row Level Security, Stripe Connect, and Next.js. Everything we learned about multi-tenancy, team architecture, and PWA from day one.

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Mar 2026

7 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

PS VitaHomebrewSelf-HostedHENkakuRetroGamingRustPlexSonarrRadarrDockerProxmoxUsenetSelf-hostedPSPCFWARK-5React NativeSupabaseExpoSwissGamificationpg_cronNext.jsStripePWAMulti-tenantTypeScriptMapLibreMobileHome AssistantLinux

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Things I figured outworth writing down.

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

Installing ARK-5 CFW on a PSP 1000 | Why I Traded TikTok for Retro Gaming

DailyBite — a social snack app built Swiss-first

Building a Multi-tenant SaaS with Supabase RLS and Stripe Connect

Building BeThere

The Ultimate Home Server

Things I figured out
worth writing down.