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Closing down VitalFrog: 3 mistakes and 3 learnings

By Simon Frey Last updated: 2022-09-282022-12-19

TLDR; I am closing down my SEO/Website performance tool vitalfrog.com. Sadly I never managed to build it into a business with a working business model. Thanks for everyone supporting it! While writing this post I…

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Posted in Startup Tagged startup

Why is WhatsApp not taking affiliate money?

By Simon Frey Last updated: 2022-01-212022-01-22

First and foremost: This post is not about WhatsApp vs anything else, yes it is Facebook/Meta/EvilCorp, yes Signal is better 😉 This is just a short thought I have: Why is WhatsApp not doing affiliate…

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Posted in Fun Tagged Facebook, Privacy, WhatsApp

Privacy friendly website analytics also will be blocked by default

By Simon Frey Last updated: 2020-07-132021-02-03

First things first: I love the movement to use more privacy-friendly website analytics tools. More and more small startups are popping up and help you to move away from Google Analytics. And each and every…

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Posted in Webdev Tagged matomo, Privacy, website, wordpress

Borg+Vorta is finally a usable backup solution for Linux desktop

By Simon Frey Last updated: 2020-06-082022-06-29

TLDR; After years of searching around I finally found a Linux backup setup that fits my needs: Borg + Vorta + BorgBase As long as I can think back, backing up my Linux system always…

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Posted in Linux Tagged backup, borg, cheating, go, linux, parents, Privacy, security, source code, time

k-anonymity

By Simon Frey Last updated: 2020-03-122022-10-10

As you might already have recognized I am in favor of strong privacy technology to counter the surveillance in our current age. One pillar to archive this is to get developers thinking about this and…

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Posted in Privacy Tagged Anonymity, GDPR, Privacy, time

Manual flush golang http.ResponseWriter

By Simon Frey Last updated: 2020-01-152022-06-29

Flush the http.ResponseWrite within your code

Posted in Golang Tagged go, golang, http

WIFIonICE not working on Linux

By Simon Frey Last updated: 2019-11-162022-06-29

Fix problems with the Free WIFIonICE and the Docker Bridges

Posted in Linux Tagged docker, linux, startup, website

tor.js – Minimal JavaScript library to check if your visitors are TOR users

By Simon Frey Last updated: 2019-11-142021-01-06

Show custom content to visitors of your page using TOR

Posted in Project Tagged go, Privacy, website

Local WordPress plugin development with docker-compose

By Simon Frey Last updated: 2019-09-252021-01-06

Supercharge your development flow with installing your development environment in Docker

Posted in Webdev Tagged docker, docker-compose, wordpress

Digitale Schutzmaßnahmen für die Teilnahme an einer Demo / Digital Security for Protesters

By Simon Frey Last updated: 2019-09-172021-01-06

Protect your digital life while attending a protest

Posted in Privacy Tagged backup, Demonstration, german, protest, security

Known length slice initialization speed – Golang Benchmark Wednesday

By Simon Frey Last updated: 2019-08-072022-06-29

Use the right method to initialization your slices to improve performance

Posted in Golang Tagged Benchmark, database, go, golang

How switching my parents over to Linux saved me a lot of headache and support calls

By Simon Frey Last updated: 2019-02-202022-06-29

My approach for switching my parents to Linux

Posted in Linux Tagged backup, borg, go, linux, parents, Privacy, security

Standard net/http config will break your production environment

By Simon Frey Last updated: 2019-02-042021-01-06

Updated information about how to use the net/http package in production

Posted in Golang Tagged german, go, golang, http, webdevelopment, webserver

Schrödingers website: How to close your blog the right way!

By Simon Frey Last updated: 2019-01-142022-06-29

Archive your website into the wayback machine before closing it

Posted in Webdev Tagged GDPR, go, http, Privacy, website

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