My parents complained about the WiFi in their house. They had a router in the basement, an access point in the first floor and a mesh-repeater in the ground floor. However, the WiFi performance in the ground floor was abysmal. So they asked me to do something.

Devices

I had two old devices around, a FritzBox 4040 and a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND v2. The latter was already set up with OpenWRT. The Fritzbox however was bricked by past me. After reading the Debricking Guide I nearly lost hope, but then I found AVM provides a recovery tool (Windows only). Without any sarcasm: Fritzboxes are a pleasure to work with.

The fediverse instance gay-pirate-assassins.de was down for a couple of days. This postmortem will outline what went wrong and what I did to prevent things from going that wrong in the future.

Timeline

• 2025-10-05 17:26: Update announcement
• 2025-10-05 ~17:45: Update started
• 2025-10-05 ~18:00: Services restart
• 2025-10-05 ~18:00: GoToSocial doesn’t come up
• 2025-10-12 ~10:00: Issue is found
• 2025-10-12 10:30: Issue is fixed
• 2025-10-12 10:31: GoToSocial is started, migrations start
• 2025-10-12 15:38: Migrations finished successfully
• 2025-10-12 15:38: Service available again
• 2025-10-12 18:36:Announcement sent

All times are given in CEST.

Lately I worked on notification e-mails for notfellchen.org. Initially I just sent text notifications without links to the site. Terrible idea! An E-Mail notification I send always has Call-to-Action or at minimum a link to more information.

I left the system like this for half a year because it kinda worked for me (didn’t suck enough for me to care), and I was the main receiver of these notifications. However, as the platform is developed further and more users join I need to think about more user-centric notifications.

Einführung

KI ist überall. Große Teile des Internets werden gerade durch KI-generierten Inhalten überschwemmt. Teilweise zeigen KI-generierte Artikel auch gefälschte Daten (vor 2022) an um so den Anschein zu erwecken nicht KI-generiert zu sein. Verlässliche und authentische Informationen zu finden ist daher um so schwerer.

Deshalb beginnt das Zeitalter der Schriftgelehrten, denn Informationen zu sammeln und aufzubereiten, das ist, was sie tun. Schriftgelehrte*r verwende ich hier als Übersetzung des englischen Wortes “Librarian”. Und so maße auch ich mir an mich (nur) dafür Schriftgelehrte*r zu nennen und versuche auf diesem Blog immer wieder Informationen zu sammeln und zu teilen (ironischerweise in dem Wissen, dass dieser Blog von KI-Unternehmen gescrapt wird).

Introduction

In the previous post I outlined how to set up a Nominatim server that allows us to find a geolocation for any address on the planet. Now let’s use our newfound power in Django. Again, all code snippets are CC0 so make free use of them. But I’d be very happy if you tell me if you use them for something cool!

Prerquisites

• You have a working geocoding server or use a public one
• You have a working django app

If you want to do geocoding in a different environment you will still be able to use a lot of the the following examples, just skip the Django-specifics and configure the GEOCODING_API_URL according to your needs.