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Cutting back on social media

Posted on za 03 september 2022 in social media

Just before my summer break I figured it was a good time to cut back on the social media addiction. So I disabled my Instagram and Twitter accounts at the end of july, giving me a 30 day grace period to change my mind.

August has by now come and …


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Homelab egress

Posted on za 16 juli 2022 in homelab

Part of rebuilding my home lab is putting prober Internet filtering in place. The gateway for my home lab is a APU2 running OpnSense. After some initial bootstrapping, I changed the firewall rules in such a way that http/https traffic is only allowed from a particular host, the vm …


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May Contain Hackers is aan

Posted on vr 15 juli 2022 in conference

Dat je in je hoofd hebt dat je niet naar May Contain Hackers kan omdat je dan op vakantie bent. En dat je er dan twee weken voor het evenement achter komt dat dat vorig jaar inderdaad zo was, maar dat je dit jaar wel kunt .... arrrggghhh nog net op …


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Rebuilding my homelab

Posted on za 18 juni 2022 in hardware

At this time I have no homelab to speak off. I have lots of parts/stuff, but nothing setup that is ready for use.

Last year I prepped a 1U server to be racked at some hosting facility. But due to unforeseen circumstances that hosting agreement lasted only for some …


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Personal wordpress site rebuild using Hugo

Posted on wo 08 juni 2022 in personal

The last couple of weeks I took the time to convert our personal webspace to Hugo. Over the last ten years or so we relied in php based solution like Joomla and Wordpress, which worked fine. But I wanted to move to something generated so the content will be available …


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