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Restarting this blog

This was my personal blog that I abandoned ~10 years ago in favor of a corporate blog.  I am reviving it and continue where I left off. This blog has focused a lot on technology and syslog-ng particular and that is something I don't want to change. I work a lot on home automation these days so I expect that to creep in. It's difficult to explain a decade in a blog post but a few items follow that I consider noteworthy: * syslog-ng became pretty successful as a commercial offering while still keeping the open source version in shape. In this 10 years the project produced 23 major syslog-ng releases with lots of new stuff open source first. * Balabit a company has grown to 250+ employees EUR 20m+ revenue and was eventually sold to a US company called Quest/One Identity in 2018 * I left Balabit a year and a half later in 2019, the company behind syslog-ng, the one I was a founder of. syslog-ng is still thriving and is gaining momentum. This is true for both the open so