Killing the "Internet of shiT" 23 mar 2019
The only IoT device in my LAN is the inverter (ca. 400V DC to 230V@50Hz AC) for my solar panels. I don't like devices that do not/can not update in my network. Now that the website I used to pull the measurement data from is changed (and thus broken) I decided to reverse what the device does and build my own service.
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Improving my mail server setup 27 may 2018 | Last updated: 27 may 2018 00:00
After switching from SpamAssassin to rspamd for spam classification I wasn't completely happy yet with the separation I had achieved. More and more I find myself splitting off functions on my server into jails and I wanted to achieve more separation of unauthenticated content processing with storage of data.
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The simplest LetsEncrypt for Apache 10 sep 2017
mod_md is by far the simplest way to add LetsEncrypt signed certificates to your Apache httpd server. Just add one line of configuration and you're done!
Adding DynDNS to Gandi.net 17 feb 2017
Gandi.net doesn't support DynDNS but does have a DNS API. Surely there must be a way to create a dyndns-like capability to my Gandi.net domain using the API?!? This also inluded an opportunity to learn a bit more about Python.
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