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Leaving iCloud, without self-hosting: Syncthing for files, notes, and passwords

On: 2026-04-12 - Reading Time: 3 Minutes

I have been using iCloud to synchronize files for more than I can remember. Recently, I became a little annoyed by the political and privacy situation in the united states of america, and I decided to move away from Apple’s iCloud.

Instead of deploying more tools on my homelab like NextCloud or WebDAV, I went with a decentralized solution that surprisingly removed the need to self-host servers for other use cases too!

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Switching to Helix: My Experience and Tips

On: 2022-12-27 - Reading Time: 4 Minutes

I recently switched from Visual Studio Code (VS Code) to Helix as my primary text editor. I wanted a more efficient and powerful modal editor for working with Go, Terraform, YAML, and other languages and tools. I also appreciated the lightweight and efficient design of Helix. In this post, I will discuss my experience with the switch and the adjustments I made to make Helix a better fit for my daily work.

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Docker + aliases: I don't install tools on my Mac

On: 2015-04-03 - Reading Time: 1 Minutes

I really care about keeping the OS clean and untouched. Sometimes, when I have to develop using specific softwares and tools, I have to modify core and important sections of the system on my Mac or PC, and this can create some problems with package managers (like homebrew for Mac OS X; or like APT, pacman or yum for GNU/Linux)…

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