The hiatus is real – There were so many articles piled up in the stack that I decided to restart from scratch and just pick a few that I ran into the past few weeks. From bash-scripts to AWS EC2 Spot instances to the usual surveillance topics. Enjoy

A lot has been written in the past about static websites but the past few weeks showed this pretty clearly – the web needs to adapt and change. Dynamic websites can only hold up to so much traffic and in then end – ask yourself – Does the website really need to be dynamic.

Rushing this one out somehow – A few links assorted. Makes me think if WhatsApp should be abandoned completely even though it is still a very strong ecosystem. But the need of trying to convince people to move to another messenger is just another pain in the behind.

The past weeks I played around with ESPHome and started to get all my sensors updated to it. There was too much “works on just this device” code sitting around. And there’s the Winterkongress coming up soon so a few venue walkthroughs happened also during the week – let’s say there will be Internet!

Happy 2020 folks – A few links that found their ways into my bookmarks lately: