Mailvelope in Nextcloud Mail, refined
Nextcloud Mail has offered PGP encryption via a third-party browser extension Mailvelope for a while. Recently we discovered that there were some issues due ...
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Rock Me Amadeus: Escaping the php Dependency Hell
Similar to some other programming language and environments, php is subject a form of the dependency hell. That means only one version of a class can be load...
A Shared Browserslist Configuration for Nextcloud Apps
In times where most JavaScript is not written for the browser directly but runs through one (or many) tools that transform the syntax and APIs used, it has b...
The Problem of Using Nextcloud’s Globally Loaded Dependencies
Many Nextcloud apps that serve a front-end component have been rewritten in Vue.js recently. With this change to a more modern framework and concept for buil...
dotnet
Installing .NET Core 1.1.1 SDK on Travis CI
Yesterday I wanted to enable Travis CI for an university project where we’re using .NET Core. Although Travis travis currently supports .NET Core builds, it ...
Mail v1.7.0, 1.6.1 & v1.5.3
It’s been just a week since I announced Mail v1.6.1 here on this blog and yet there is a new release – v1.7.0.
Mail v1.6.0 & v1.5.2
I’m happy to announce that we’ve released a new version of Nextcloud Mail today. The most notable changes are the ability to move messages via a brand new ma...
firefox
State of U2F in Firefox
Users of the Nextcloud U2F app may have noticed that the app warns that only Chrome natively supports U2F and an addon is necessary for Firefox:
foss
Uploading Wahoo workouts to intervals.icu
The Wahoo Elemnt companion app pulls workout files off my bike computer in the .fit file format. The workout can then be viewed, uploaded to a number of seri...
Mail v1.7.0, 1.6.1 & v1.5.3
It’s been just a week since I announced Mail v1.6.1 here on this blog and yet there is a new release – v1.7.0.
Mail v1.6.0 & v1.5.2
I’m happy to announce that we’ve released a new version of Nextcloud Mail today. The most notable changes are the ability to move messages via a brand new ma...
Rock Me Amadeus: Escaping the php Dependency Hell
Similar to some other programming language and environments, php is subject a form of the dependency hell. That means only one version of a class can be load...
A Shared Browserslist Configuration for Nextcloud Apps
In times where most JavaScript is not written for the browser directly but runs through one (or many) tools that transform the syntax and APIs used, it has b...
The Problem of Using Nextcloud’s Globally Loaded Dependencies
Many Nextcloud apps that serve a front-end component have been rewritten in Vue.js recently. With this change to a more modern framework and concept for buil...
Detecting Suspicious Nextcloud Logins
With Nextcloud 16 we release a new security app: Suspicious Login. This app can detect anomalies in IP addresses logging into a user’s Nextcloud account usin...
Using Nextcloud Logs as Sentry Breadcrumbs
The Sentry integration for Nextcloud has been available for more than a year now. During this year, we gradually improved the data that is reported and the e...
Mixing Nextcloud Globals into Vue
Nextcloud apps use global functions to access server APIs like the t function to translate a given string. Within a Vue template, you can use this function l...
Working with Vue and Nextcloud’s strict CSP
Nextcloud 15 applies a stricter default content security policy (CSP) which requires special treatment for JavaScript frameworks and libraries that use unsa...
Unlocking Nextcloud Accounts Locked by Two-Factor Authentication
I’m happy to announce a new two-factor provider for Nextcloud: the Admin Support Provider. In contrast to the existing providers like TOTP and U2F, this prov...
Minimal Travis CI Config for Nextcloud Apps
Travis CI offers free continuous integration services for open source projects on GitHub, so it’s a natural fit for Nextcloud apps. In this blog post, I’d li...
Nextcloud App Release Process
Over the course of the last week, I released a handful of Nextcloud app updates. This process is similar for all my maintained apps, so I have developed a wo...
Gaining Disk Space with cargo clean
I just got the Gnome notification that my SSD once again runs out of free disk space. This has happened before. Ususally I just clean up my pacman/pacaur cac...
JavaScript Error Reporting in Nextcloud
A couple of months ago, I created a Sentry integration for Nextcloud. Back then, I focussed on integrating the PHP SDK to automatically report all logged PHP...
Automated project setup with krankerl up
With the release of Krankerl 0.7.0, I’ve added a new up command that detects composer and npm availability and automatically installs all Nextcloud app depen...
Updating a Thinkpad BIOS on Arch Linux
Lenovo released BIOS updates to fix security issues for CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre), so I figures that it would be a good time to update mine. I’ve once bricked ...
State of U2F in Firefox
Users of the Nextcloud U2F app may have noticed that the app warns that only Chrome natively supports U2F and an addon is necessary for Firefox:
Validate Nextcloud’s info.xml on CI
The Nextcloud app metadata is declared in an XML document, located at appinfo/info.xml. The structure of this document is defined by a XML schema that can be...
Testing Nextcloud Apps
I like having my Nextcloud apps tested automatically both locally and on continuous interation build services like Travis CI. While those automated tests wil...
Nextcloud 2018
Similar to what the Rust community is doing with #Rust2018 right now, I’d like to write down my personal Nextcloud goals for 2018.
howto
Updating a Thinkpad BIOS on Arch Linux
Lenovo released BIOS updates to fix security issues for CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre), so I figures that it would be a good time to update mine. I’ve once bricked ...
intervals.icu
Uploading Wahoo workouts to intervals.icu
The Wahoo Elemnt companion app pulls workout files off my bike computer in the .fit file format. The workout can then be viewed, uploaded to a number of seri...
javascript
A Shared Browserslist Configuration for Nextcloud Apps
In times where most JavaScript is not written for the browser directly but runs through one (or many) tools that transform the syntax and APIs used, it has b...
The Problem of Using Nextcloud’s Globally Loaded Dependencies
Many Nextcloud apps that serve a front-end component have been rewritten in Vue.js recently. With this change to a more modern framework and concept for buil...
Mixing Nextcloud Globals into Vue
Nextcloud apps use global functions to access server APIs like the t function to translate a given string. Within a Vue template, you can use this function l...
Working with Vue and Nextcloud’s strict CSP
Nextcloud 15 applies a stricter default content security policy (CSP) which requires special treatment for JavaScript frameworks and libraries that use unsa...
JavaScript Error Reporting in Nextcloud
A couple of months ago, I created a Sentry integration for Nextcloud. Back then, I focussed on integrating the PHP SDK to automatically report all logged PHP...
l10n
Mixing Nextcloud Globals into Vue
Nextcloud apps use global functions to access server APIs like the t function to translate a given string. Within a Vue template, you can use this function l...
machine learning
Detecting Suspicious Nextcloud Logins
With Nextcloud 16 we release a new security app: Suspicious Login. This app can detect anomalies in IP addresses logging into a user’s Nextcloud account usin...
Mailvelope in Nextcloud Mail, refined
Nextcloud Mail has offered PGP encryption via a third-party browser extension Mailvelope for a while. Recently we discovered that there were some issues due ...
nextcloud
Uploading Wahoo workouts to intervals.icu
The Wahoo Elemnt companion app pulls workout files off my bike computer in the .fit file format. The workout can then be viewed, uploaded to a number of seri...
Mail v1.7.0, 1.6.1 & v1.5.3
It’s been just a week since I announced Mail v1.6.1 here on this blog and yet there is a new release – v1.7.0.
Mail v1.6.0 & v1.5.2
I’m happy to announce that we’ve released a new version of Nextcloud Mail today. The most notable changes are the ability to move messages via a brand new ma...
Mailvelope in Nextcloud Mail, refined
Nextcloud Mail has offered PGP encryption via a third-party browser extension Mailvelope for a while. Recently we discovered that there were some issues due ...
Rock Me Amadeus: Escaping the php Dependency Hell
Similar to some other programming language and environments, php is subject a form of the dependency hell. That means only one version of a class can be load...
A Shared Browserslist Configuration for Nextcloud Apps
In times where most JavaScript is not written for the browser directly but runs through one (or many) tools that transform the syntax and APIs used, it has b...
The Problem of Using Nextcloud’s Globally Loaded Dependencies
Many Nextcloud apps that serve a front-end component have been rewritten in Vue.js recently. With this change to a more modern framework and concept for buil...
Detecting Suspicious Nextcloud Logins
With Nextcloud 16 we release a new security app: Suspicious Login. This app can detect anomalies in IP addresses logging into a user’s Nextcloud account usin...
Using Nextcloud Logs as Sentry Breadcrumbs
The Sentry integration for Nextcloud has been available for more than a year now. During this year, we gradually improved the data that is reported and the e...
Mixing Nextcloud Globals into Vue
Nextcloud apps use global functions to access server APIs like the t function to translate a given string. Within a Vue template, you can use this function l...
Working with Vue and Nextcloud’s strict CSP
Nextcloud 15 applies a stricter default content security policy (CSP) which requires special treatment for JavaScript frameworks and libraries that use unsa...
Unlocking Nextcloud Accounts Locked by Two-Factor Authentication
I’m happy to announce a new two-factor provider for Nextcloud: the Admin Support Provider. In contrast to the existing providers like TOTP and U2F, this prov...
Photos of the Nextcloud Conf 2018
Some impressions of the Nextcloud Conference 2018 in Berlin.
Minimal Travis CI Config for Nextcloud Apps
Travis CI offers free continuous integration services for open source projects on GitHub, so it’s a natural fit for Nextcloud apps. In this blog post, I’d li...
Nextcloud App Release Process
Over the course of the last week, I released a handful of Nextcloud app updates. This process is similar for all my maintained apps, so I have developed a wo...
JavaScript Error Reporting in Nextcloud
A couple of months ago, I created a Sentry integration for Nextcloud. Back then, I focussed on integrating the PHP SDK to automatically report all logged PHP...
Automated project setup with krankerl up
With the release of Krankerl 0.7.0, I’ve added a new up command that detects composer and npm availability and automatically installs all Nextcloud app depen...
State of U2F in Firefox
Users of the Nextcloud U2F app may have noticed that the app warns that only Chrome natively supports U2F and an addon is necessary for Firefox:
Validate Nextcloud’s info.xml on CI
The Nextcloud app metadata is declared in an XML document, located at appinfo/info.xml. The structure of this document is defined by a XML schema that can be...
Testing Nextcloud Apps
I like having my Nextcloud apps tested automatically both locally and on continuous interation build services like Travis CI. While those automated tests wil...
Nextcloud 2018
Similar to what the Rust community is doing with #Rust2018 right now, I’d like to write down my personal Nextcloud goals for 2018.
Introducing a new way of managing, packaging and publishing Nextcloud apps
I’ve been writing a lot of Rust code this year, partly because I used it for some university projects and also because I’ll start writing a master thesis abo...
Integrating Sentry crash reporting into Nextcloud
Sentry is an application crash reporting tool that collects and aggregates application crashes from various frameworks and programming languages. I’ve been u...
Adding service providers to Nextcloud
Nextcloud apps need some level of bootstrapping code to be run when a request reaches the Nextcloud server. This code wires up interfaces and classes for the...
Automated Nextcloud public API compatibility analysis
Most Nextcloud apps I contribute to seem to be using Scrutinizer as code quality analysis tool for their pull requests on GitHub. I really like how they anal...
Photos of the Nextcloud Conf 2017
Here are some snapshots I took at the Nextcloud conf in Berlin.
Keep your Nextcloud app secure
Nextcloud 11 will be released soon and this will be the first version of the Nextcloud server that uses the new app store at apps.nextcloud.com. All apps upl...
Secure your Nextcloud with TOTP two-factor auth
Starting with Nextcloud 10, it is possible to plug custom two-factor auth apps into Nextcloud’s authentication system. One of the most popular second factors...
Adding two-factor auth to ownCloud
You are reading an old post. I’m working on the Nextcloud TOTP and U2F apps now.
ownCloud Mail 0.5 released
Following the release early, release often philosophy when working on ownCloud Mail, we do releases quite often. The most important enhancement of this relea...
ownCloud Contributor Conference 2015
I have become a regular contributor of the ownCloud mail app in the last few months and have therefore been invited to the ownCloud conference in Berlin. Fro...
photography
Photos of the Nextcloud Conf 2018
Some impressions of the Nextcloud Conference 2018 in Berlin.
Fotos der Feuerwehrübung vom 28. April 2018
Am 28. April wurde in Schrattenthal eine Feuerwehrübung mit mehreren Fahrzeugen und eingeklemmten Personen durchgeführt.
Photos of the Nextcloud Conf 2017
Here are some snapshots I took at the Nextcloud conf in Berlin.
Fotos der Feuerwehrübung vom 7. September 2017
Am 7. September fand im Schloss Schrattenthal eine Feuerwehrübung statt, bei der ich ein paar Schnappschüsse aufnehmen durfte.
php
Rock Me Amadeus: Escaping the php Dependency Hell
Similar to some other programming language and environments, php is subject a form of the dependency hell. That means only one version of a class can be load...
programming
Validate Nextcloud’s info.xml on CI
The Nextcloud app metadata is declared in an XML document, located at appinfo/info.xml. The structure of this document is defined by a XML schema that can be...
Testing Nextcloud Apps
I like having my Nextcloud apps tested automatically both locally and on continuous interation build services like Travis CI. While those automated tests wil...
Nextcloud 2018
Similar to what the Rust community is doing with #Rust2018 right now, I’d like to write down my personal Nextcloud goals for 2018.
rust
Gaining Disk Space with cargo clean
I just got the Gnome notification that my SSD once again runs out of free disk space. This has happened before. Ususally I just clean up my pacman/pacaur cac...
Automated project setup with krankerl up
With the release of Krankerl 0.7.0, I’ve added a new up command that detects composer and npm availability and automatically installs all Nextcloud app depen...
Introducing a new way of managing, packaging and publishing Nextcloud apps
I’ve been writing a lot of Rust code this year, partly because I used it for some university projects and also because I’ll start writing a master thesis abo...
security
Detecting Suspicious Nextcloud Logins
With Nextcloud 16 we release a new security app: Suspicious Login. This app can detect anomalies in IP addresses logging into a user’s Nextcloud account usin...
Updating a Thinkpad BIOS on Arch Linux
Lenovo released BIOS updates to fix security issues for CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre), so I figures that it would be a good time to update mine. I’ve once bricked ...
State of U2F in Firefox
Users of the Nextcloud U2F app may have noticed that the app warns that only Chrome natively supports U2F and an addon is necessary for Firefox:
sentry
Using Nextcloud Logs as Sentry Breadcrumbs
The Sentry integration for Nextcloud has been available for more than a year now. During this year, we gradually improved the data that is reported and the e...
JavaScript Error Reporting in Nextcloud
A couple of months ago, I created a Sentry integration for Nextcloud. Back then, I focussed on integrating the PHP SDK to automatically report all logged PHP...
Integrating Sentry crash reporting into Nextcloud
Sentry is an application crash reporting tool that collects and aggregates application crashes from various frameworks and programming languages. I’ve been u...
software-architecture
Adding service providers to Nextcloud
Nextcloud apps need some level of bootstrapping code to be run when a request reaches the Nextcloud server. This code wires up interfaces and classes for the...
software-design
Adding service providers to Nextcloud
Nextcloud apps need some level of bootstrapping code to be run when a request reaches the Nextcloud server. This code wires up interfaces and classes for the...
sports
Uploading Wahoo workouts to intervals.icu
The Wahoo Elemnt companion app pulls workout files off my bike computer in the .fit file format. The workout can then be viewed, uploaded to a number of seri...
testing
Minimal Travis CI Config for Nextcloud Apps
Travis CI offers free continuous integration services for open source projects on GitHub, so it’s a natural fit for Nextcloud apps. In this blog post, I’d li...
Validate Nextcloud’s info.xml on CI
The Nextcloud app metadata is declared in an XML document, located at appinfo/info.xml. The structure of this document is defined by a XML schema that can be...
Testing Nextcloud Apps
I like having my Nextcloud apps tested automatically both locally and on continuous interation build services like Travis CI. While those automated tests wil...
travis
Minimal Travis CI Config for Nextcloud Apps
Travis CI offers free continuous integration services for open source projects on GitHub, so it’s a natural fit for Nextcloud apps. In this blog post, I’d li...
two-factor auth
Unlocking Nextcloud Accounts Locked by Two-Factor Authentication
I’m happy to announce a new two-factor provider for Nextcloud: the Admin Support Provider. In contrast to the existing providers like TOTP and U2F, this prov...
u2f
State of U2F in Firefox
Users of the Nextcloud U2F app may have noticed that the app warns that only Chrome natively supports U2F and an addon is necessary for Firefox:
vue
Mixing Nextcloud Globals into Vue
Nextcloud apps use global functions to access server APIs like the t function to translate a given string. Within a Vue template, you can use this function l...
Working with Vue and Nextcloud’s strict CSP
Nextcloud 15 applies a stricter default content security policy (CSP) which requires special treatment for JavaScript frameworks and libraries that use unsa...