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Simson Mopeds.

Over the course of the last summer, I took it upon myself to rebuild an old Simson S51 moped, which - according to Wikipedia - is the most built german moped. I mostly did so because these things are allowed to go 60 kilometers per hour legally, however over the

Why iPods are still awesome in 2022

Why iPods are still awesome in 2022

A couple of months ago, a video by DankPods was sent to my list of recommended videos on YouTube. Since then, I have been enthralled by them and the amount of modifications you could do to them. When I was then gifted a broken 160gb iPod Classic if I promised

Refurbishing a 2012 MacBook Air

Refurbishing a 2012 MacBook Air

A couple of days ago, I was sent a link to an advertisement on Facebook Marketplace for a defective Macbook Air in the city I live in. It was dirt cheap (40€) and only listed one error: "internal memory defective". Exactly the sort of cheap shenanigans I'm always up for.

How I made Plex and Nextcloud interoperate

I have a fairly big library of photos, videos and music. Most of it I am now hosting on this server. However, I've been facing two big issues: 1. The Nextcloud gallery is terrible at displaying photos. Load times can be unbearably long, thumbnail generation can take forever and I've

Hello World!

Hi, my name is Bas and I'm a software developer and computer science student. Welcome to my blog. This blog is for me to post my little ramblings about whatever I feel like. It will likely be mostly about technology, but there might be some other posts about different topics.