Starting Again with Technology After my stroke, a lot changed in my life. Things that used to come naturally suddenly required more energy and patience. During my recovery, I rediscovered how much enjoyment I get from technology. Working with computers…
If you look around my place, there is a good chance you will come across an old server, PC or box of spare parts. Servers, hard drives, memory, power supplies, cables, network cards and even batteries for UPS systems. And…
My homelab is becoming more extensive. Where I initially focused mainly on separate systems, I have increasingly started looking at how everything works together. Two components that have become important in this process are Proxmox and Sophos. Proxmox runs on…
Sometimes you have a plan in your head and expect everything to go smoothly. You get started, take a few steps and feel good about having made progress. Until you discover that something along the way has turned out differently…
If I make progress by just one step today, that is progress too. Yesterday was simply a difficult day. I did not want to take on too much at once, but in the end, that is exactly what I did.…
There are moments in life when your plans suddenly change. Not because you chose them to, but because life takes a different direction. For me, that happened because of a stroke. Since then, I have been rebuilding my life. Sometimes…
The third month of my recovery has come to an end. Looking back, I realise that this month has asked quite a lot of me. There were moments when I thought things were getting better and better. But there were…
Sometimes something that worked perfectly yesterday suddenly stops working. You try again. You check everything. Maybe you change something and try once more. And yet the problem remains. That’s what happened to me recently with my firewall. At first, it…
Moving forward step by step, even when things don’t go the way I want. Recovering after a stroke means more to me than working on my physical recovery. It also means learning to deal with the fact that things sometimes…
