Every now and then I need to expose a service running on a local machine to the internet, usually just temporarily. Rather than opening ports on a router or mucking about with firewall rules, a reverse tunnel does the job nicely.

There are a number of providers offering this kind of reverse tunnel, including:

• Cloudflare Tunnel
• ngrok
• localtunnel
• bore
• Tailscale Funnel

This blog has existed in one form or another since April 2010, when I registered my first blogging domain.

Unfortunately, after multiple domain migrations and several tech stack changes (WordPress → Hugo → Zola), a number of my older posts were lost.

I've been busily working away at adding a few more features to the site since creating my own new theme for it yesterday.