The cost is minimal, and the advantages are significant.

Configuring an old iMac to run pihole, homebridge, and ipfs, using Siri to turn the brightness on/off and using it as a... "LED panel" light.

I recently purchased my first NFC tags. Here are my first impressions and my first experiments.

το απλό redesign που οδήγησε ως συνήθως σε διάφορες περιπέτειες...

What an amazing project!

You can use two iPhones (one can be a quite old one) and carry only one with you.

iCloud Photo Sharing allows you to create a small, private "Instagram". Here's how to do it.

How I set it up, how I use it and my overall impressions after a bit more than a year with it.

Creating a kill switch that will wipe sensitive data from my computer if asked to unlock it.

If you miss the freedom RSS used to give us before we started relying on Facebook, read on.

Step by step instructions to create a ASN.1 parser using asn1c.

How I'm using a github repo as a notebook, and the first steps towards hosting my blog on github.

First impressions of the keybase.io filesystem, and a small bash script to implement a secure, encrypted chat service over it.

Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere with ifttt.com

Why not take a backup of all your tweets every now and then?

Why not make a tradition out of archiving your Gmail at the end of the year? See how easy it is.

The results of a small experiment at getting new subscribers to my newsletter using Twitter lead generation ads and MailChimp form integrations.

Why your startup's blog (at least the first one) should be on Medium.

For the last couple of years, I've been increasingly relying on social networking services to curate, share, discover and even publish content. Looking back, it think they have failed me and that's why I'm looking for ways to reconnect with my web 2.0 "roots".

How I created a very simple email template for Mailchimp that resembles a lot plain text emails, to send my daily digest.

jekyll-post-via-web is a simple HTML page that lets you update your GitHub-hosted Jekyll blog using your browser.

This is a test post to try my own webmentions endpoint at www.listnr.net.

How I used CloudFlare's (free) Universal SSL to enable HTTPS for my S3-hosted static-HTML blog, and a few extra notes.

Intercom.io is full of nice little features and "social profiles" is one of them. Not part of the core product, but at Deepfreeze.io we've found it to be extremely valuable.

DVD is a dying medium, at least for me. Here's how I deal with it.

Browser-based push notifications is an exciting feature for web publishers. Use Roost to easily enable it in your website.

I will describe here how we integrated Intercom with our invitation and registration workflow at deepfreeze.io to send user notifications, and how this helps us deliver better services.

It's nice to say that you are customer-centric, customer-first, etc, but what really matters is how much of this you are willing to put down on paper. Your Terms of Service are the actual contract between you and your clients, not your keynote presentations, or your posts on Facebook and twitter.

A cool idea that allows us to link directly to any text fragmet inside web pages.

How to remotely SSH to your Macs by taking advantage of Back to My Mac.

vcsh is a version control system for $HOME. This is how I've set it up.

How to use OS X Finder color labels from the command line.

One of the tools we use most at longaccess is HipChat. Here is why.

Weekend project: How to show under each static blog engine post the tweets that mentioned it.

Our experience with BitTorrent Sync at longaccess has been great.

It's not as complicated as you think.

How I moved from feature rich iPhoto to future proof Dropbox.