In Munich, where I live, there’s a regulation called the Mietspiegel. It’s meant to protect tenants from skyrocketing rental prices by setting reference rents for different neighborhoods and property types. Sounds fair. But understanding how it works? That’s another story. Even native German speakers struggle with the complexity of it—tons of clauses, exceptions, and cryptic wording.
Over the past few years, I’ve been playing with AI tools—ChatGPT, local LLMs, Python scripts, you name it. But recently, I started a course focused on using AI for everyday tasks—especially around finance, health, and nutrition—and I have to say: I’m impressed by how far these tools have come.
Recently, I finished reading Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte, and it really struck a chord with me. Below are some of the ideas that resonated the most and how I plan to integrate them into my own systems.
Reading The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel has been a transformative experience—not just in how I think about money, but in how I perceive luck, effort, expectations, and what really matters.
After reading Investing Demystified: How to Invest Without Speculation and Sleepless Nights, I wanted to summarize the most impactful lessons I’ve found worth applying. This isn’t a how-to on picking the next Tesla, but rather a framework to think clearly about wealth and risk.
I saw in this Twitter thread . It is about SSH Port fordwarding which I found interesting and I have needed it a couple of times, so here is a copy and short explanation of it:
I saw in this Twitter post how to download scientific papers and I find it intersting to document as sometims it can be usefull to have a look at it.
In this post I will gather some tricks an things to do when installing Ubuntu Fresh, since recently I had to do it a couple of times
As part of the Labdoo project, I need to print and attach device tags to laptops. Initially, I was printing them on regular paper and covering them with tape — a frustrating and time-consuming process.
I sometimes need to use a virtual machine to run some test or having linux in a Windows PC (which I cannot change). I have tried it several time but there was alaways something which was not working and that’s why I gave up.
I have a WD My Cloud disk as a Network Storage at home. WD My Cloud come with a customize Linux version which can do all kind of fancy stuff which is mainly not usefull and it just keep the drive working all day.
Pandas is the go-to library in Python for data manipulation and analysis. In this guide, we’ll walk through some of the most useful methods that help you inspect, filter, aggregate, and transform DataFrames.
I bought some time ago 5 chips of the popular ESP8266-12E to try to make some of my home sensors more cost effective. These chips were in the drawer from some time but today was time to take them out and start the first design.
I will document the process of installing HomeAssistant Raspberry Pi from the zero
After looking a lot how to create a VPN Server for my home I accidentally found this great tutorial in german: link
I was running python scripts on the raspberry pi quite complicating everything.
This post is a copy of: Source Link In case it get deleted
Installing opencv in raspberry pi was a bit tricky When importing I got the error
Trying to make the script to automatically print the tags from labdoo I run into the problem that from python script I did not have permissions to access the printer.
Source of the process Link
It looks like installing numpy and pandas in the raspberry is not as straight forward as we though… I think this problem was already solved…
This was not as easy as I expected at the beginning…
Mounting net drives, creating backups is always a recurring topic I treat different in my different machines.
Source: Link
Good page with Linux command for sysadmins: helpful cheat sheet
Wemos Mega+WiFi
General Links Wemos d1_Mini https://wiki.wemos.cc/products:d1:d1_mini MQTT ESP8266 and Raspberry Pi https://www.hackster.io/ruchir1674/raspberry-pi-talking-to-esp8266-using-mqtt-ed9037 Connect Raspberry Pi to ESP8266 https://openhomeautomation.net/connect-esp8266-raspberry-pi Websocket Communication ESP8266 and Raspberry Pi https://diyprojects.io/websocket-communication-esp8266-arduino-python-test-ws4py-library-raspberry-pi/#.XEtdhFVKipr SIM808 GPRS and GPS Tutorial: Not directly related with this project but could be useful https://www.prometec.net/sim808/https://www.prometec.net/gprs-llamar-enviar-sms/ Arduino MEGA Overview https://www.arrow.com/en/research-and-events/articles/arduino-mega-2560-overview ADAFruit Motor Shield https://playground.arduino.cc/Main/AdafruitMotorShield
ESP8266 there are many in the market.
The main information about the proyect is here
Source: https://thepi.io/how-to-use-your-raspberry-pi-as-a-wireless-access-point/
In this entry I would document some interesting linux commands to use in the raspberry pi
Source 1: https://thepihut.com/blogs/raspberry-pi-tutorials/17789160-backing-up-and-restoring-your-raspberry-pis-sd-card
This blog is the last try to document all the knowledge I gather from different places and at the end I struggle to find again.