I’ve recently set up a Discourse forum on DigitalOcean, and was wondering how to implement automatic backups. Turns out Discourse supports both automatic backups and uploading them to S3. Couldn’t be easier!

To save money, you might want to create a lifecycle rule on S3 to archive the backups to Glacier, which is a slower, but cost-efficient, alternative to S3.

For some months now I have been developing MuzHack, a platform for makers of music hardware to publish their designs. I’m pleased to say it’s finally in production! The project is in collaboration with the Norwegian music sound research center Notam. My hope is it will spark inspiration between independent hardware developers, similar to how I and so many other software developers have benefitted from GitHub.

Stay tuned for more news!