Tim Hårek

https://timharek.no

Personal blog of a Norwegian technologist writing about privacy-focused technology, web development, and monthly recaps.

Tim Hårek

Entries

  • Vertical tabs turned me into a hoarder

    I used to make jokes about them, pointing out that having too many tabs open would take up as much space in your head...

  • October 2026

    I’m tired. Most things feel like they have to happen fast to not be left out, or fall behind. And I think October has...

  • What I learned after 5 years without social media

    Five years ago I deleted all of my social media accounts, and I wrote about it. Since then I have continued to write ...

  • Switching from Dokloy to Komodo

    Holy shit, I didn’t know what I was missing out on. The other day I was setting up a new home-server for a friend, th...

  • September 2026

    Time flies 🪰 or is it ✈️, I don’t know, and I don’t have a proper intro this month, so let’s not get hung up on unnec...

  • Kaizen #5: Backups (and a lot more)!

    After Kaizen #4, I knew I had to act quickly to force myself to set up the actual backups, and do it properly. And th...

  • Goodbye SourceHut

    Back in August, SourceHut wrote about their terms of service regarding LLMs. I was behind on my RSS-reading, so I did...

  • August 2026

    Back to work, back to kindergarten, back to routine, and back to writing my monthly recently post! 🍀 Life Going back ...

  • July 2026

    It’s now just two more days until I go back to work after a fantastic three-week summer vacation. I want at least thr...

  • Kaizen #4: Overhauled homelab

    I started this “blog-series” to force myself to write more about my set up, and my continuous iterations. But it didn...

  • June 2026

    2026 is officially 50% done. My goal for this month’s post was to have a proper tagline for the lead, but I can’t thi...

  • May 2026

    We’re half way through the year, time flies, and I have procrastinated writing this blogpost. 🍀 Life I’m adjusting to...

  • April 2026

    Summer is approaching, my family is getting bigger, and life keeps on giving! From the blog since my last recently po...

  • Subscribe via RSS

    Last year I wrote Subscribe via e-mail. I made it possible for people to subscribe to the blog with an e-mail instead...

  • March 2026

    I must be getting older, because it feels like I just wrote my previous recently-update. I must’ve kept busy this mon...

  • Hudd review

    Lately, there has been a lot of talk about moving away from US-based services, and social media platforms in general....

  • February 2026

    The year’s shortest month is finally over, and I’m three days late to posting this because I’ve been too busy to sit ...

  • January 2026

    1/12 of 2026 is almost at an end, and I’m certain that I won’t be able to write this post at any date later in Januar...

  • 2025 Year in review

    This is my fourth year in review. Looking back at those four years, a lot of things has happened. 2025 feels like a l...

  • December 2025

    December is the slowest, fastest, and shortest month of the year. Everything has to happen this month. But I survived...