Jan van den Berg’s site is a long-running personal blog that functions as a chronological archive of published posts, grouped by year from 2025 through 2026. Rather than a themed magazine, it reads like a working notebook: short, dated entries documenting whatever the author was solving or testing at the time.
The content clusters around self-hosted publishing and system administration. Several posts track the author’s own Pure Blog project, including hooks, permalinks, RSS menu icons, and comment migration away from WordPress. Others cover Apache log noise, wp-content auditing, FreshRSS image resizing, and tuning a LAMP stack, alongside tool notes on gdu and a static photo gallery generator called Janbum.
Hardware and everyday computing also appear regularly, from a post on what the author likes about Macs to preparing a vacation laptop and diagnosing a machine that reboots randomly. A piece dissecting a too-cheap 1TB memory card shows the same practical, skeptical tone applied to consumer scams.
Developers, homelab hobbyists, and anyone maintaining a small self-hosted site are the natural audience, especially those curious about lightweight blogging alternatives to WordPress. Use the year headings and search to locate specific fixes; posts are dated and often assume familiarity with the command line.
Overall it is a compact, technically grounded journal worth browsing for specific problems rather than reading start to finish.
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