Do you still need a password manager?
Why a password manager is worth it, even if passwords are supposedly dying out, and which European alternatives there are.
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A blog about European software
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As of today, the blog sits inside a whole website. What is behind it, and what it means for the blog.
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Baserow: a multi-purpose tool
Baserow out of Amsterdam is an open-source alternative to Airtable. What the tool can do, where it hits its limits, and who is actually behind it.
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Matrix instead of Slack or Teams?
Matrix is an open protocol for messengers, and European public administrations already run on it. How it holds up day to day, and who pays for the work.
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European alternatives to AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
Which European cloud providers exist, how European they really are, what services they offer and what they cost. An overview in tables.
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Does a good product need outside funding? Tally says no.
Out of Ghent, Tally builds a mature form tool with no outside funding and a radical focus on its own users. What makes the product special.
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European cloud storage providers
Proton, mailbox.org, Filen and a few more: European cloud storage beyond Nextcloud, what they are worth, and where I stay sceptical.
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Cloud storage or platform? What Nextcloud actually is
Nextcloud is more than a place to put files. What the platform does, what I use it for every day, and the bits that annoy me.
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How and why I settled on Nextcloud
The long way I took to self-hosted Nextcloud: hard drives, OneDrive, and the moment I decided to host my own storage.
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Namedropping: my home setup
A short overview of the European and open-source tools I use at home day to day: where my data lives, how I communicate, what I work with.
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