Closing one chapter
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Today marked my last full working day (tomorrow I will just hand back in the equipment) at my current employer in the automotive industry. Next Monday, I will start a new job in another domain.
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GoBlog not only has a new README file on the repository (replacing the old, cluttered, incomplete documentation) but also has a new share button implementation. No more relying on third-party services for that basic functionality!
The final ride of the year?
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Today I did another bike tour, following several I’ve taken recently. I didn’t blog about those, although they were quite nice and I truly enjoyed them, now more appropriately dressed.1
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Recursive DNS
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I think I did not blog about it, but I switched back to a self-hosted AdGuard Home instance quite some time ago from NextDNS. To reduce my number of subscriptions, but also to increase my control over important infrastructure I use.
As upstreams in AdGuard Home, I used DNS4EU, Mullvad, and Quad9.
However, today, I switched to a self-hosted instance of PowerDNS Recursor. So no more reliance on third-party DNS resolvers, except the root and authoritative nameservers.
I try it with AdGuard Home first, as I later also want to set up a second PowerDNS Recursor instance on my mail server to make use of some more spam protection features.
Let’s see if any problems appear. When yes, “it was DNS”! 😅
TIL on my bike
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Today, with the weather at a nice 19 °C, I took the chance for another bike tour. I had tried out my new, warmer cycling clothes yesterday during a long break from work, but since the weather will be much colder soon, I really wanted to get this second ride in.
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I finally have the Internet Phone Book as well. Ordered from Hyper Hypo in Greece because that was the only place with stock. Lots to explore for quiet moments!
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My October ‘25 in Review
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After September, now October is gone too, one more month, and not so long anymore until the next year. Even if it is already the third day in November, I still quickly want to fulfill my chronist duty.
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Today, eight years ago, our time together came to an end, and the void you left behind is still immense.
But your values, your curiosity, the way you approached things, all of that shaped me and remains deeply rooted within me.
I miss you endlessly, Dad.
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Ten pointless facts about me
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I saw a few people in my newsreader do these posts (Henrique, Kev, Manu), and as I have nothing better to say but feel the urge to blog something, here’s my entry to this little blog challenge. 😄
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I finally took a closer look at OpenRouter today, added some credits, and used it with the Kilo Code VS Code extension to vibe code (or at least guide the LLM to code) a bit on the wedding website I’m building for next year. I used the Grok Code Fast 1 model most of the time. Furthermore, I also switched this blog’s AI plugins to use Mistral Small 3.2 for summary generation and image caption generation.
I wish there would be a European alternative that is as simple and supports as many models as OpenRouter. Ideally, it would even support the audio transcription endpoint with models besides Whisper.
And I need to experiment with some other models for coding, as I don’t like it being from one of Elon’s companies. At work, I use GitHub Copilot with Claude Sonnet 4 or 4.5 most of the time.
But the AI world is moving fast; I guess it’s just a matter of time.