As I mentioned in my previous post - the vps is going down. I wanted to use tailscale and it’s funnel feature for hosting stuff, mainly I wanted to keep activitypub instance I was running, but after spending a lot of time with it - i figured out that you cannot run the funnel with a custom domain, only tailscale’s .ts domain. I spend some late evenings trying to work around it - but I was not able to, so I decided to skip activitypub.

The VPS I’ve been using for many years is shutting down. This means that acitivitypub.stigatle.no , yarn.stigatle.no is going down. I selfhosted these on the VPS. I am looking into replacing things, I wanted to host things on my own domain using my own servers at home, I then looked into tailscale’s ‘funnel’ feature, that lets you expose a local machine to the internet, but as it turns out it’s not easy to get it to work with your own subdomain, this causes ssl issues (since tailscale makes ssl for the custom .

I wanted to post a bit about what I’m doing currently. It’s been a while since I’ve updated my blog. Not sure if anyone reads it anyways, but I like to sit down and write a bit every once in a while.. First - I’ve been wanting to replace Twitter\X with something else, so I looked around for activitypub software that I could host by my self, and I then found Snac2 - https://codeberg.

Some days ago I wanted to try to build Yarn Desktop Client on NixOS. I installed the latest version, got some basic things set up, I then cloned my repo and instantly regretted installing NixOS, because I did not get it to work as easy as I thought. I then put my laptop away for the rest of the evening. I picked it up again the next day, determined to give it another try.

I felt that I needed a new ‘home’ for social media when I shut down gnusocial \ diaspora instances I was running. I spent some time looking around. I have to admit I do not like the whole ‘web3’ stuff (nostr for example) and others, mostly because it attracts so many cryptobro’s, and I get tired of the constant shilling they do. I do not mind crypto - I use it a lot my self, but I do not need to be reminded about it on almost every post I see on social media.

Decided to write a bit about how things are going, I have not written much lately, so it’s time to change that. Over Christmas my VPS provider had some hardware issues - that caused the VM to become unrecoverable. I honestly did not mind - since I had backup of everything I needed, and the current VPS I had was running a really old debian version. Also it was a pain to keep things updated, since it was set up a long time ago, so after the VPS provider installed a new fresh VM for me - I then sat down to think about how I wanted to have things in the future.

One bigger thing that happened last year in April was that we got a new dog! A alaskan husky, he was 8 weeks when we got him, broght our kids to get him, we drove about 4 hours one way to pick him up. The lady we got him from lived in a cabin in the woods, down a ski trail, her whole place was fenced in, and we walked up there, opened the gate, and got greated by about 5-6 huge huskys, and the puppies in the pen.

Decided to reboot my website, start fresh. I wanted to get rid of wordpress - and now I’ve switched to Hugo.