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The Seestar S50 with its solar filter staring at the sun 2025 was my year of starting a new hobby: astrophotography.

Time for some easy blog content.

I have always been interested in electronics and enjoyed experimenting with Arduinos and various sensors.

tl;dr Well, playing video games was one part.

This is my updated version of my early 2024 default apps post.

Every map of China is wrong (archive.ph mirror) I was aware of the fact, that satellite maps and Google’s map view don’t align with each other on purpose.

Every dunder method in Python Trey Hunner wrote a helpful article about special methods built into Python.

How I keep myself Alive using Golang Matt Boyle writes about how he keeps track of his blood glucose levels utilizing his engineering skills writing some monitoring code and a Telegram bot to bundle everything in a neat Grafana dashboard.

A few months ago, I experienced internet issues and encountered random server freezes.

Last month I had some issues finding enough links simply because I didn’t write them down.

Back in May 2023, I wanted to reduce the number of VPS and root servers I had.

Another approach to force myself ensure that I consistently fill this blog with interesting content is by following Arne Bahlo’s Weekly approach.

While looking through a bunch of different blogs by clicking through some webrings, I found a nice trend.

A few months ago, I had an issue with my Unraid server crashing randomly for no apparent reason.

I’m not even sure what started it, but I think I was looking through random Github repositories for things to self-host.

In my very first post on this blog I mentioned that my blog is running / built by Hugo hosted on Github Pages.

Cloudflare provides an absurdly large arsenal of tools and services for free.

Since part 1 became quite long I thought splitting the post in two would make it easier to simply link it to people who are interested in either the Tailscale or the Cloudflare way.

I have been running several different websites or web services for like 15-20 years now.

As mentioned in my Valid TLS cert for local services with Traefik post, I run local services with a valid domain.

I run an Unraid server locally.

Just yesterday, Markus and I were talking about home automation and my homelab setup.