Sasja's Blog

2026 rework of my blog

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Another rework of my website, because I can.

The Web You Want - Part 2

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

As part of my yearly goals at work, I'm visiting a couple of events and conventions to keep my mind fresh and stay up to date with the latest developments in tech and design.

Switching from Windows 11 to Linux Fedora KDE Plasma

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

My experience switching from Windows 11 to Linux Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop

Finding out about the birds in our garden using BirdNET-Pi

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Using a Raspberry Pi 4B, USB microphone and BirdNET-Pi to learn about the birds in our garden.

Exploring the federated web

Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Exploring the federated web, decentralisation, the Fediverse and Mastodon.

New website rework

Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

I reworked my website to have a clearer structure, be more accessible and performant and generally nicer.

The Web You Want - My visit to a web-focused event

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

As part of my yearly goals at work, I'm visiting a couple of events and conventions to keep my mind fresh and stay up to date with the latest developments in tech and design.

Using an old tablet as a Home Assistant dashboard

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Using a motion sensor and Lenovo Tab to display my Home Assistant dashboard

Installing OpenClaw on my Raspberry Pi 4

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Installing the quite dangerous tool OpenClaw onto my Raspberry Pi 4 for fun.

Piracy is on the rise and I have thoughts

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Piracy is on the rise and I have thoughts

Saving recordings of my Foscam camera stream to my home server using RTSP and FFMPEG.

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A tutorial of sorts on how to save RTSP camera streams as MP4's to your home server and display them using Home Assistant.

Trying out new tools

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I've been trying out new tools such as Obsidian, Raycast, Dia, Perplexity Comet and Kiro. In this post I share my experiences and recommendations.

Building a Secure Home Server with Jellyfin, HA, Docker & Tailscale

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

My journey from Plex to building a robust & secure home server. How I set up Jellyfin, Home Assistant, Zigbee2MQTT, Docker, and Tailscale on Ubuntu.

Building a Chrome extension for my website

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I built a Chrome extension in which I use the Storyblok Management API to add the link of the current active tab to my links page on my website.

How Google's new AI Overview is messing up the SEO landscape

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Google's new AI Overview is impacting SEO which in turn is impacting website reliant on organic traffic.

Adding RSS to my website

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

After being mildly interested in RSS feeds for several months now, I finally decided to create my own, and add RSS to sasjakoning.com.

Messing around with Cursor's BugBot

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Cursor recently released BugBot; an AI bot that can check your Pull Requests for bugs. (Image from https://docs.cursor.com/bugbot)

Setting up Home Assistant in my house

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

My experience switching from several smart devices and apps to one central system.

Vue Conference 2025

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I've gone to the Vue.js Conference 2025 in Amsterdam for a day; here are some interesting insights from the various talks I've attended.

How Instagram's ad breaks cured my addiction

Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A while ago, Instagram pushed a new update to their app in which they introduced ad breaks, which helped me stop scrolling.

Dealing with multi-line component designs sucks.

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Ever since I started working full time at a company that works according to the common structure of having the design and development departments separate, I’ve ran into a specific code issue multiple times.

Revisiting my past projects and general progress

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Looking back at my progress when it comes to development

Cialdini's 7 principles of persuasion

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Design + Psychology combined with Cialdini's 7 principles of persuasion. How can you convince your user to buy and/or commit to something?

Technology is hijacking your mind, Tristan said so.

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT

I find psychology and the internet quite the interesting topic. In this blog I talk about how technology is hijacking your mind, according to Tristan Harris.