# goroot

> Notes between engineering and leadership.

Leads developer teams by day, runs a homelab by night — the harder one to debug has no logs.
Writes about both, plus AI and self-hosting.

Jeder Beitrag ist zusätzlich als Rohfassung unter <beitrags-url>/llms.txt abrufbar.

## Beiträge

- [Automated tasmota backups](https://blog.goroot.de/post/automated-tasmota-backup/llms.txt): 2021-12-04 — A smart home consists of dozens of smart devices — and backing them up is essential to restore them quickly in case of failure.
- [How to use Visual Studio Code on your iPad](https://blog.goroot.de/post/How-to-use-Visual-Studio-Code-on-your-iPad/llms.txt): 2021-07-29 — Using an iPad as a replacement for a computer is easy for non-development tasks — but what about coding? Here's a fully portable VSCode setup that works even offline.
- [Presence detection: Bee in a box](https://blog.goroot.de/post/presence-detection-bee-in-a-box/llms.txt): 2021-07-22 — Presence detection in a smart home can be realized quite easily — without tracking GPS positions or installing motion sensors.
- [ESP32 as BLE Gateway for Xiaomi Mijia BLE Temperature & Humidity Sensor](https://blog.goroot.de/post/esp32-ble-gateway/llms.txt): 2021-07-01 — The Xiaomi LYWSD03MMC humidity sensor is one of the most popular BLE sensors on the market — cheap, battery-powered, and easy to integrate with an ESP32 as BLE gateway.
- [Monitor the pH of your reef tank with Tasmota](https://blog.goroot.de/post/tasmota-homeassistant-pH-measurement/llms.txt): 2021-03-01 — Monitoring the water values is essential, especially for owners of reef tanks. I didn't want to do my drop-test by hand anymore, so I connected my tank to Homeassistant instead.
- [Network segregation: IoT vs NoT networks](https://blog.goroot.de/post/network-segregation-IoT-vs-NoT/llms.txt): 2021-02-18 — Having dozens of IoT devices in your private network is a security flaw — devices that phone home can quietly open a route from the internet into your local network.
- [Unattended docker container updates](https://blog.goroot.de/post/unattended-container-updates/llms.txt): 2019-07-13 — Running your services in containers is convenient — but keeping them updated is a different story, and there are more comfortable ways than doing it by hand.
- [Using the cloud as panic room](https://blog.goroot.de/post/automated-cloud-backup/llms.txt): 2018-02-03 — You come home, the front-door is wide open, and you start to realise that your digital life has been stolen. Your computer is gone, and so are your backup disks. Horrible scenario, …
- [Docker Image Review: jwilder/nginx-proxy](https://blog.goroot.de/post/docker-image-review-jwilder-nginx-proxy/llms.txt): 2018-01-29 — Ever wondered whether there is a good alternative for scenarios where a full featured ingress proxy would be overkill? Here it comes — and you already know how to configure it, …
- [Docker containers are insecure](https://blog.goroot.de/post/docker-containers-are-insecure/llms.txt): 2018-01-14 — Containerization provides isolation, so if you are running containers on a fully patched host, there should be no security holes at all. Not even close.
- [Starting on a blank page](https://blog.goroot.de/post/starting-on-a-blank-page/llms.txt): 2018-01-11 — The old blog ran from 2014 to 2016 and focused on Ham Radio and IoT. Here's what changes now that the blog is back.

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