Matthias Liffers

[mətiːəs] he/him. Uninvited child of Whadjuk Noongar boodja. Gaming. Underwater photography. Sustainability. Self-hosted software. Occasionally knitting. FAIR research data. Metadata. Running from nothing.

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Cake day: November 18th, 2022

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  • As a card-carrying librarian, I recommend using Zotero as a client with a WebDAV backend (I use Nextcloud).

    If you’re studying or writing anything in which you need to cite your sources, Zotero is excellent and has integrations with many word processors. I’m pretty sure it can output your references as BibTeX if you’re in one of the disciplines that uses LaTeX.






  • I’m using Autorestic, a wrapper for Restic that lets you specify everything in a config file. It can fire hooks before/after backups so I’ve added it to my healthchecks instance to know if backups were completed successfully.

    One caveat with Restic: it relies on hostnames to work optimally (for incremental backups) so if you’re using Autorestic in a container, set the host: option in the config file. My backups took a few hours each night until I fixed this - now they’re less than 30 minutes.