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Woltlab Suite configuration with Caddy

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 19:33:26 +0200

It’s hardly a secret that I’ve been using Woltlab Suite Forum for many years on Guild Wars Legacy. And it looks like I set a trend with going with Woltlab, since a lot of other Guild Wars forums these days also use Woltlab (like GW2Community.de)!

But next to Woltlab Suite, I also love using Caddy - it’s a great webserver that requires minimal configuration and it enforces secure defaults. And it also completely handles certificate management and renewal, combined with great performance.

Retrospective: May 2024

Thu, 30 May 2024 16:46:17 +0200

I always sell myself short. I think it has to do with ADHD, which I was diagnosed with as a young child. It has always been a part of me and made things much more complicated for me than they should actually be. But that is another story.

In order to help myself - and to actually help myself realize that I actually did do quite a lot - I decided to start sharing retrospectives that explain how my last month went. I’ve been a fan of Michael Lynch his retrospectives and while my life isn’t nearly as exciting as his, I have no doubt that this will help me. So, let’s get to it!

On redesigning my website and frameworks

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 12:46:16 +0200

It’s been something that I should have done quite a long time ago: freshen up my personal website. I’ve been holding off on it, mainly due to mental headspace not being available to focus on this. But, it became time to get thinking about it once again.

So, I can say that I’ve started working on a new version of my website, but it will take a while before it is actually online.

Sending an attachment using the Postal API

Fri, 08 Jul 2022 22:49:50 +0200

Hi there!

For the last few days, I’ve been hard at work on getting my N8N.io installation up and running and letting it do a lot of the things I have been doing manually.

One of those things is setting up a system to pick up any invoice I create and send it over to my accountant. Until now, I did that manually. But starting now, it’ll simply mail a copy of an invoice the second it is created.

Analyzing malware

Mon, 02 Aug 2021 19:07:57 +0200

A few weeks ago, I got a few notifications about messages that were posted on my website, Guild Wars Legacy, which is the biggest Guild Wars 1 fansite. Those messages were spread in various posts, all in what it seemed random locations, and all talked about an old private server (which is a tool used to run a private, local server to run the game with).
To understand this, you have to know that Guild Wars 1 never had a working private server and no real attempts to accomplish this have succeeded. So naturally, this was something that caught my attention.

Minifying the Guild Wars Guru archive

Tue, 13 Apr 2021 10:42:03 +0200

Years ago, I started Guild Wars Legacy after it was announced that Guild Wars Guru, the biggest Guild Wars 1 fansite at that moment, was going to shut down. Guru was the biggest source of information, a true treasure trove for the Guild Wars community and we felt that we had to do everything in our possibility to preserve a copy. The owners of Guru, Curse, had promised to keep an archive of the website up and running, but in reality this lasted only a few months before it was permanently shut down.

A complete overview of securing Wordpress

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 18:27:12 +0100

As a Linux system engineer who works in the webhosting business, I’ve had my fair share of WordPress websites that got attacked, hacked, defaced and so on. While WordPress is a very dependable system, it has it’s flaws - just like anything else. The biggest issue lies in the fact that it is one of the most used systems on the internet, which leads to it being a prime target for hacking.

UPDATED: Retrospective: Theme park season 2020

Tue, 02 Jun 2020 22:14:45 +0200

Updated on the 16th of September 2020, it’s now at least 99% less negative!

Earlier this year, I had lost hope for theme parks this year. I have only visited a single park since, only a few days ago, but that’s enough reason for me to update this post.

My last experience in a park was completely different - one that was more about enjoying the rides itself and the experience of being away for a day - and hopefully, that’s something that I’ll be carrying around with me for the rest of my life.

Moving Over to Ubuntu 20.04

Fri, 01 May 2020 17:13:40 +0200

It’s April and ever since 2005, that means that a new release of Ubuntu awaits us!
I generally like to use the last LTS version for my servers and with that, I upgrade my servers about every 2 years. It keeps me on edge and fresh about setting up servers - at my work, we automate almost everything so it’s good to keep these things “in my fingers”.

So, time to get started!

ChatFilter: a GuildWars Tool

Mon, 27 Apr 2020 16:21:18 +0200

Everybody has that one game, that one memory when they were growing up that formed part of who we are, who we became.

It could be so many different games in my case, as I played a lot of them. I remember playing GTA: Vice City, being too young to really get what it was all about.
Or RuneScape, which I played for many moons - or even Tibia, which was the first MMORPG that I ever played (and yes, it’s still online). Or what about Knight Online, that crappy free to play MMORPG that is still around today - and it hasn’t changed one little bit.

Retrospective: Theme park season 2019

Sun, 10 Nov 2019 11:37:42 +0100

I haven’t posted about this here, but one of my major interests is theme parks - my girlfriend describes it (I hope lovingly) as an obsession and as such you could find me often in theme parks around my area.

This year was the first year I started collecting metrics (more metrics coming next year, since I started collecting most of the metrics near the end of the season).

Fixing high internal network latency on Mac OS

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 11:09:50 +0100

Over the last few months, I have been experiencing some strange issues on my work Mac OS (I use Windows as my daily driver at home, combined with OpenSuSE Tumbleweed).
While my WiFi worked perfectly on every other device at home, I was having serious issues on my Macbook. It had high internal latency in my network, which led me at first to issues with my ISP - however, this seemed not to be the case.

Progression

Sun, 13 Oct 2019 20:58:35 +0200

I have never been a sportive type of guy. Far from it, because the last time I did any serious sports dates back from when I was in school - and I was the worst kid in my class. I didn’t like sport and sport didn’t like me.

So, as the years went by, I started gaining weight, slowly. At first, it came really slow - I had quite a lot of activity because my first jobs were requiring quite a bit of physical activity - not that much, but enough to avoid me gaining too much weight.
That changed when I quit the last of those jobs, with the idea of getting started with IT. Fast forward some years and now I work in IT, but other things changed as well.

Layout Updates

Fri, 19 Jul 2019 01:44:15 +0100

Hey everybody,

Just a little notice that I refined the layout of the website, in preparation of another website that I’m going to use this theme on.

It requires just a little bit more work, some more refinements, but it’ll look very nice.

And today, a few months later, I’ve done some further work, making sure that the navigation is improved and giving some love to the blog overview and blog post overviews. The theme has been made by myself, so it requires some more maintenance :).

Versio gaat als een speer

Sun, 02 Dec 2018 21:18:33 +0100

Warning, this post is in Dutch. You might not understand it.

It’s been a long while. En dat zeg ik niet om een of andere reden (en zeker niet omdat ik een GLaDOS referentie wou maken), maar het is weer een tijd geleden sinds ik hier iets neergepend heb. Maar nu lopen de frustraties zo hoog op, dat ik wel iets moet neerpennen ;).

Een paar dagen geleden, op 30 november, kreeg ik deze mail - en ja, ik zet hem volledig neer. En sorry voor de wall of text die volgt:

Beste klant,

Why Guild Wars Legacy is switching over to Woltlab Suite (coming from MyBB)

Fri, 15 Dec 2017 23:45:23 +0100

For those who do not know me yet, I’m Kevin and the administrator of Guild Wars Legacy which is the biggest Guild Wars 1 fansite on the internet. We launched with the site in May 2016 after it was announced that the previously biggest fansite, Guild Wars Guru, was to shut down.

The community jumped into the hole that this closure caused and Legacy was born. We launched quite quickly, only days after the shutdown was announced. It all had to go quite fast and I had very good experiences with MyBB, software that I previously used on another website of mine which had really impressed me.

En nu Nederlands

Fri, 15 Dec 2017 23:33:23 +0100

Warning, this post is in Dutch. You might not understand it.

Van harte welkom op mijn website en mijn blog!

Ik ga alvast beginnen met een kleine waarschuwing, het is namelijk niet echt de bedoeling dat ik hier (veel) ga posten in het Nederlands - deze blog is hoofdzakelijk Engelstalig gericht.

Ik kan echter niet uitsluiten dat ik ooit een paar Nederlandse blogs ga plaatsen, vandaar dat ik even deze post/waarschuwing plaats (met extra waarschuwing vanboven).

The first blog

Fri, 15 Dec 2017 16:43:58 +0100

The first ramblings of a madman.