I figured out how I can run Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat (LTS) on an Apple Silicon Mac for free with UTM Virtual Machines while also having hardware accelerated graphics.

While opening a pull request to fix a minor issue in the localization process of the Nextcloud Notes app for iOS I learned why de localizations must be overwritten with de_DE.

Frequently I need a clean throwaway deployment of Nextcloud to quickly reproduce bugs or have an isolated back end for client development and automated testing. This is the next level.

How to quickly and easily spin up a Docker container with Nextcloud for testing core features quickly.

Verifying one feature I had to implement requires two Nextcloud development instances talking to each other. This is how I figured it out.

I was on parental leave for the last three months and in regard to the main topic of this blog they went differently than I expected.

I bought an iPad Pro with a 11-inch display and the latest M4 chip and was surprised and pleased.

No big thing worth mentioning for me - except one.

Small but useful improvements in the name of convergence. Nothing amazing, though.

During WWDC24, Apple finally introduced a “swifty” test framework to replace XCTest.