There were articles here!
…and they are still here, just need to be rewritten. So, what happened?
Things have changed. I no longer have the Sena motorcycle headset (opted for a separate camera setup plus a much simple Sena bluetooth-only headset), the weather station is dying and occasionally falling off the network (I mean, it runs Windows CE, of all things! and more professional-tier stations exist, albeit at a steeper price). Proton now offers a SMTP endpoint for sending mail from your local devices (e.g. notifications), although you might still run a port 25 SMTP relay on your restricted LAN for devices which do not support TLS/STARTTLS. And, with things like Tailscale and CloudFlare tunnel, it’s much easier to implement a reverse proxy than ever before (“automagically”) instead of trying to build your own. Although, the skills trying to do it all manually are still valuable, and ultimately worthwhile to pursue.
Finally, life got busy. As of writing this text (ca. February 2024), I have been completely overwhelmed by remodelling a house that had originally been built in 1910. The house still had original cast iron and galvanized steel plumbing (actively rotting), and knob and tube wiring (actively rotting, sometimes rather violently), all of which had to be replaced in a quick succession meanwhile following modern building code and standards (e.g. NEC). There’s simply no time to maintain a website and continue to write articles.
That is not to say that interesting things in IT and information security have been neglected. Notes have been taken and eagerly await sorting out and putting them into a coherent structure…