A techie's hideout — apps, infrastructure, and everything in between.
Drum and Bytes is the personal GitHub organization of Māris Popēns — a data engineer based in Tallinn, Estonia. It's where side projects, homelab experiments, and small tools graduate from "works on my machine" into something other people can run. Most of it is open source under the MIT licence.
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- What I am using to host this blog · Dec 2025
- Why I decided to make a self-hosted blog · Nov 2025
More at drumandbytes.com.
Teesilm — a mobile-first PWA for Estonian road and
weather conditions. Offline-capable, self-hosted vector maps, and precise location-based hazard
alerts (a radius around a saved point, not a coarse region subscription). Closed-source; bugs and
feature requests go through the public feedback tracker.
f1-walk — fan-made walking guides to F1 street
circuits (Monaco, Baku, Singapore, Las Vegas, Melbourne) with GPS tracking, corner-by-corner
history, and offline support.
paddock-api — custom F1 data
API for Glance dashboards: session
times in your own timezone, live standings, track maps, and tyre-stint data,
cached around the race calendar instead of a fixed TTL.
eraser — free, open-source data-broker removal.
Sends GDPR/CCPA opt-out requests to 700+ brokers automatically; a maintained continuation of
digisamroc/eraser with EU-specific handling.
opentofu-updater-action — keeps
OpenTofu / Terraform providers, modules, Helm charts and container images current by opening
pull requests.
argocd-gitops-updater-action —
Helm chart and image version bumps for GitOps repos. ArgoCD / Kustomize aware, with
Slack / Teams / Discord / Telegram notifications.
github-actions-runner-exporter —
Prometheus exporter for GitHub Actions self-hosted runner status (online/busy), polling the org
runners API.
pve-metrics-exporter — Proxmox VE
exporter for Prometheus and Glance, including the CPU / GPU / NVMe hardware temperatures
most Proxmox exporters skip.
momentarr — caching, serialising proxy in front
of FlareSolverr-compatible Cloudflare solvers (Byparr, FlareSolverr). Reuses cf_clearance over
plain HTTP (~100ms instead of a ~14s browser solve) and runs one solve at a time, so Prowlarr
never stacks browsers.
nordvpn — minimal, distroless NordVPN + Meshnet
container image (no shell, no package manager), rebuilt weekly against the upstream stable
channel.
dotfiles — macOS dotfiles managed with chezmoi; shell, Homebrew and app config, reproducible on a fresh machine.
razer-pod-bridge — nRF52840 firmware that
turns a Razer Wireless Control Pod into a plug-and-play USB media controller for macOS, no Razer
Synapse required.
music-router — menu-bar
utility that stops Music.app auto-launching and routes media keys to the
right app.
Built and maintained by @JustMaris — browse all repositories →
Projects here are built with the help of an AI coding assistant (Claude); I review and test what gets published.
