If you host apps on your Umbrel and want to reach them from anywhere using your own domain, there is one problem you will run into sooner or later: the IP address of your home internet connection changes. When it does, your domain keeps pointing at the old address, and your apps can no longer be reached from outside your home.

Cloudflare DDNS for Umbrel fixes that. It keeps an eye on your public IP address and updates your Cloudflare DNS records whenever it changes, so a name like home.yourdomain.com always points at your home. It takes a couple of minutes to set up and is free to install from my saltedlolly App Store for Umbrel.

Having been upgraded to Business class on my flight back to the UK two weeks ago, I felt that my years of flying back and forth from China to the UK were at last being rewarded with some perks. This made yesterdays events even more satisfactory – I arrived at the airport where they told me that since they were overbooked, if I would fly tomorrow, they would give me a free flight  and a 650 quid BA voucher or 350 pounds in cash. At firest I dismissed it but suddenly began to think that it might be worth doing – it was not absolutely vital that I arrived back in Beijing today  anyway. Also, the money meant a free return flight home at a future date. It really seemed too good to be true so i took them up on it. The only downside was that I then had to get home again having been dropped at the airport.

A few on friday, a few more on sunday, one last night. I see it is very much an organic process. I’m chiselling away at those irresistible urges one day at a time….