My October ‘26 in Review
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And another month has flown by. Only two months left this year.
Festival of Lights Brunswick
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Please get me the invoices 🤖
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AI and vibe coding is nothing new to me, but today I finally gave vibe reverse engineering (or better said, reverse vibing?) a try. To scratch an itch I had for a long time: downloading invoices from o2 Business.
Lost in the rythm 🎶
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I only now understand what I missed about music in all the years I let algorithms decide on what I listen to.
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PHP reminds me of Log4Shell in 2021. Back then the CVE even had a 10/10 rating.
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Inspired by Matthias Pfefferle, I also just implemented JS-based rendering for the sitemap.xml, which was using XLST until recently. XLST broke when I made the Content-Security-Policy in GoBlog more restrictive. Given XLST is deprecated anyway, I switched to CSS, but that’s more limited. JS-based rendering works great, though. I didn’t know using JavaScript on XML-based documents was even possible.
I also applied it to the blogroll.opml while I was at it. With the new DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 and my critical questions, it was done fast and cheap, and probably better than I would have done it myself. 😄
Selfhosting my AI chats: more privacy and sovereignty
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I have a lot of fun with self-hosting lately. It got much easier with the help of AI. After tackling and improving music self-hosting, it was finally time to find an adequate solution for my AI chats. Previously I mainly used Gemini, then Mistral Vibe (Le Chat). But I’m not happy with having just another subscription, given I also use OpenCode with Cortecs.ai or OpenRouter for my private programming projects.
A visit to the wildlife park 🦌
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The last vacation made me want a better camera than the one in my phone. Especially one with a telephoto lens, so I could take pictures of animals from a safe distance. Today we were at a wildlife park and I was able to take some portraits of some residents with the camera I bought. Here are my favorites, all unedited.
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New music-related services on my home server
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Two new additions to my self-hosted music setup today:
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For no apparent reason, I wasn’t in the best mood for the last few days, but today I planned to do a bike ride, and it paid off, as it often does. Riding while the sun is already setting is nice.
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