Brayd’s Blog 🌱

A blog about all things IT, Linux, veganism, martial arts and more!

A screenshot of the Immich website with the headline Self-hosted photo and video management solution, above a preview of the Immich photo timeline.

Why I maintain a privacy fork of Immich

Immich is a great self-hosted alternative to Google Photos and I really like it. But there is one bug that bothered me enough to fix it myself. The fix did not get merged, so I now maintain a small fork with its own Docker image. This post explains what the bug is, why the fix is not in Immich itself and how you can use the fork if the bug bothers you too. ...

November 6, 2026 · 6 min · 1108 words · Brayd
A picture of two phones laying on a wooden desk. Both showing the official Mastodon app.

A curation of some nice tools for Mastodon

As some of you know I run a Mastodon instance based on glitch-soc. While using Mastodon I discovered a few cool tools that make Mastodon more interesting to use. This post here is a curated list. I’ll try to update it from time to time if I discover new stuff. Browser There are some nice Browser add-ons or web tools. Most of them are available on Chromium based browsers, too. However since I am using Firefox based browsers, I will link the Firefox add-on here. ...

May 29, 2025 · 2 min · 288 words · Brayd
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Welcome to Brayd’s Blog

Welcome to my blog. I already had a blog previously but decided to start from scratch on a new domain. The reason for this was, that my old blog used the same domain as the services that I host use. It was reachable via https://braydmedia.de. I thought this is kinda confusing for people that for example use one of my services, when they visit the root domain. In the future https://braydmedia.de will contain meta information regarding the services I run as a hobby. This blog is my personal blog and is therefore separate. ...

May 16, 2025 · 2 min · 249 words · Brayd