I Was Targeted by Two Sophisticated LinkedIn Pig Butchering Scams in the Same Week

• Marc Lewis
• Date : June 28, 2025
• Categories : news
• Tags : linkedin ,scams ,pig butchering ,remote work ,security

Over the past few months, I’ve been increasing my visibility — more blogging, more conversation on LinkedIn, and generally showing up again after some time off. It was paying off: more profile views, more engagement, more conversations.

With additional visibility to actual people, that same visibility increased for scammers. They’ve always been part of life, but this time they showed up looking polished, professional, and perhaps even dangerously convincing.

Replacing Todoist with a Self-Hosted CalDAV Setup

• Marc Lewis
• Date : June 15, 2025
• Categories : self-hosting ,homelab
• Tags : self-hosting ,todoist ,tasks.org ,caldav ,synology ,docker ,caddy

I’ve been gradually replacing various commercial and/or closed source cloud services with self-hosted alternatives. I’ll start posting about more of them in the very near future, but the one I decided to replace this weekend was Todoist.

A Self-Hosted Contact Form for Static Sites

• Marc Lewis
• Date : May 22, 2025
• Categories : homelab ,projects
• Tags : self-hosting ,golang ,contact form ,hugo ,smtp ,docker

Static sites are great. They’re fast, secure, easy to deploy, and scale better than just about anything else. What they don’t do well, though, is anything dynamic that requires a web service. The most ubiquitous example of this is the contact form.

Why I Moved from Enpass to Bitwarden (via Vaultwarden)

• Marc Lewis
• Date : May 22, 2025
• Categories : self-hosting ,homelab
• Tags : self-hosting ,vaultwarden ,password manager ,bitwarden ,enpass ,docker ,caddy

For years, I was a satisfied paid user of Enpass. It was simple, reliable, offered a one-time purchase model that respected the idea of software ownership, and best of all, worked everywhere that I worked – Linux, MacOS, Android, and iOS all synced with WebDAV.

Choosing the Wrong Tool Isn't the Tool's Fault

• Marc Lewis
• Date : May 13, 2025
• Categories :
• Tags : golang ,startups

I originally wrote a version of this for Caffeinated Softworks, but the topic struck close enough to home that I wanted to share an edited version of it here too.

A recent piece titled “Why Developers are Quietly Quitting Golang” has been making the rounds. It references a Medium post where a startup founder says that choosing Go (Golang) was “the biggest mistake of [their] life.”

EmberJS, VueJS, React, Angular, etc. Which one to choose?

• Marc Lewis
• Date : June 4, 2019
• Categories :
• Tags : angular ,emberjs ,javascript ,programming ,react ,vuejs

For the last couple of years, I’ve been dabbling with a few side/hobby projects. Several of these have been in the form of a Single Page App (SPA). There is a lot of appeal to that with the modern web. The question always comes up, though, which framework should I use to create my new app?