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

I'm taking a little time off to travel, relax, and enjoy a change of pace. Hoping to share updates as I go, time permitting.

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

Ever since I rebuilt this site on Zola, one thing has been conspicuously missing: comments.

I've generally been unconcerned with their absence, and - being a static site - wasn't sure if it was practically achievable either.

After a small blogging hiatus, it seemed time to check up on my sites to see how they were doing.

First question: do they still build?

Turns out the answer was no.

If you are using firewalld to protect your system, you may at times need to open local ports to let traffic into your machine.

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.