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Couldn’t prevent myself from implementing support for socialspec.org as a plugin in GoBlog, given it already supports most of the pieces like automatic blogroll and feeds, and I must have just had to add redirects and some CORS handling. As I’m not an iOS user and can’t use the HyperTexting app, I don’t really have any use out of it, but initiatives supporting the open web are nice anyway. You can see my profile at sodir.org.

Yesterday, I had the feeling I needed to do just another bike ride this year. It was just a bit over zero degrees outside and quite foggy, but thinking I have warm clothes, I tried it anyway. The clothes also kept me warm, but what I underestimated was how cold my feet would get, as I used the same shoes and socks as I use when it’s 30 degrees outside. With cold feet and also a bit of cold hands at the end (even though I had warm gloves, apparently not warm enough), the last 10 kilometers were quite exhausting, but I’m glad I did it. Next time, I should only go if it’s a bit warmer, or I need to buy warmer socks or shoes.

On the last evening of my work trip, I finally figured out how to set up a WireGuard VPN container and port forwarding for my home server to use my travel router (GL-MT3000) to connect to home and have a WiFi network giving me my home IP address (including IPv6). But I guess now it’s a solid and secure setup for future travels. wg-easy is pretty simple to setup.

Theoretically, I could use NetBird with an exit node on all my devices, but I prefer something that doesn’t need an extra app running all the time. Also, I might share the WiFi with my wife on future travels.

For a few nights, 12 places in Braunschweig (Brunswick) are specially illuminated in the evening.

PHP reminds me of Log4Shell in 2021. Back then the CVE even had a 10/10 rating.

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. 😄

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.

This bench doesn’t make any sense. Or does it?

There’s no way to deny it’s already autumn, even though it’s still 20 degrees.

Just another addition to my ever-growing collection of headphones: the new Anker (soundcore) Liberty Buds 2. Just available for a few days, but just in time, the battery of the charging case of my Liberty 3 Pro starts to show its age and doesn’t want to charge fully anymore. I’m not yet 100% sure if I will keep them. But I heard so many good things about the noise canceling (finally on a level or above other premium in-ears) with Anker’s new Thus chip that I just need to try them. I mean, I am quite sensitive to noise during traveling. Just on my trip last weekend, I wished I had a way to better isolate myself from the environment in the noisy train. So maybe it’s my compact new travel companion?