Pi-Hole is, in my opinion, a great tool for blocking ads, tracking and malware. But sometimes it seems to be blocking a bit too much. One case I identified were sites that would come up as small ads in my Google searches. I still wanted those links to work. My analysis showed that the needed target URL was nicely encoded in the advertisement URL. So I thought of nginx for a solution.

Using Linux on various machines, I wanted to have something that helped me to identify on which machine I am currently working. The usual bash prompt settings in PS1 indicate this, but I needed to read the text. I wanted something more intuitive. Searching for a solution I found that modern bash is capable of using unicode. So I found my solution.

I wanted to build FreeCAD on Windows to be able to do some local development. FreeCAD is already documented for this in the FreeCAD wiki. The steps are very clear, but I found some inconsistencies regarding paths and order of mentioned information. Maybe I have the option to change them in the wiki later. For now, I wanted a complete but very compact step-by-step file to go from “nothing” to “FreeCAD is built”.

This is a private website, where I document my hobbies. The reason why I started this website is that I often find hints, tips or clues, but I rarely find “complete information”. And of course, I also want to later find that info myself again.

So in case you have similar interests you could find something here!