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.
- On admitting and accepting failure · Mar 2026
- How Ghost helped me build a self-hosted blog · Jan 2026
- 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.
road-conditions-ee — 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).
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.
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.
pve-metrics-exporter — Proxmox VE
exporter for Prometheus and Glance, including the CPU / GPU / NVMe hardware temperatures
most Proxmox exporters skip.
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.
Built and maintained by @JustMaris — browse all repositories →
