Tech, life and everything else
Why spend 80 € on a simple cap? Because it fits my big head perfectly, is very comfortable, offers good sun protection, is high-quality, and also keeps me from being blinded by the sun. With this cap and my hat, my collection of summer headwear should now be complete.
🖼️ View
I am currently in the process of migrating to a new mailserver setup that is integrated into my normal hosting setup on a new VPS at netcup. This time, the setup is based on the Docker images and configuration from a project called docker-mailserver (I previously used the other more popular docker-mailserver). It’s less monolithic and more flexible to adjust configuration etc. It also has a web UI to configure users, domains and aliases.
We recently had a test photo shooting with our wedding photographer. The photos that came out of this session are beautiful. I took the chance to finally update my profile picture (the last one was from 2022) with a cropped version of one of the new photos. My appearance has actually changed quite a bit, especially over the past year. I have new glasses, a beard now, and shorter hair.
🖼️ View
For the regular planning workshop at work (my second since I started), I have to be in Schwäbisch Hall from Monday to Wednesday. As train tickets are cheaper on Saturday than on Sunday and I was eager to explore the city anyway, I decided to already arrive yesterday (Saturday). Today (Sunday) I did my planned city discovery.
🖼️ View
As I told you, I recently switched to mainly using NetBird instead of Tailscale. NetBird released their “Bring your own proxy” functionality on the cloud-hosted version today. That gave me the perfect reason to finally try a VPS at netcup. I ordered the smallest one with just one core and one gigabyte of memory, but all it has to do is the reverse proxy work.
I have a couple of restic backup containers running across my servers, all based on the resticker image. It’s a basic part of every server configuration I use. Backups are executed on cron schedules. But until today, I had no visibility into whether they actually succeeded. So I had no idea one of my backups didn’t run for some weeks due to some “locks” in the repository.
I took my bike out for a short ride again yesterday. The last days it was rainy and stormy, but yesterday, there was a bit of sun again. Also wind, but I took it relaxed. Nature also really calmed me down. I haven’t really realized sunset is so late, and I can still easily start a short ride in the evening.
🖼️ View
Many news sites, including a few German ones, are now trying to get you to add them as a preferred source on Google. This can be annoying. Why should I do this? And why do you try to remind me on every visit? And why do you even assume I am using Google News? Are the sites so desperate because AI is reducing the number of people visiting them?
And just like that, another month has flown by. Time for my usual look back.
Regarding my last post: While I spent plenty of thoughts on the whole implementation, most of the coding work was actually done by DeepSeek V4 Flash and Pro, and I just supervised and criticized it.
