#weeklyreview 38/2026

Week started with ripping out the old wallpapers in #project25. That was fortunately pretty easy as I “just” had to soak with water properly and then it came off almost on itself. Soaking took the longest though as I had to spray it 3 times. On the saturday after the week, I started to rip out the concrete in the living room. That should give us enough room to put insulation and floor heating in.

Panoramic view of an empty room under renovation with bare plastered walls and dark, unfinished flooring. A metal stepladder stands in the center, an open door leads to an adjacent room on the left, and a window on the right looks out onto a deck with a table.
A room under renovation with an aluminum A-frame ladder on the left and a partially removed floor exposing concrete subflooring and debris, with a hammer, coiled blue cable, and weathered walls scattered throughout.
A white flatbed truck loaded with a pile of broken concrete and stone rubble, lined with a worn canvas covering, parked on a paved driveway in front of a house with a wooden upper story.
A room under renovation with bare concrete flooring marked by a grid pattern, peeling walls, a chandelier, large windows facing greenery, and tools including a ladder and a red broom. The space is empty of furniture with construction materials near the windowsill.

That Sunday afternoon it was slightly rainy and I visited the Lehmann-Garden in Templin for the first time up close. There was a little gathering of the Förderverein des Joachimthalschen Gymnasiums over there. The garden is really beautiful and very well maintained.

A garden bed filled with rows of orange marigolds and taller yellow coneflowers, each section marked with small black plant identification labels, set beside a pale building and surrounded by trees under an overcast sky.
A garden path winds between rows of blooming flowers including yellow coneflowers, orange marigolds, and purple blossoms, with small plant identification markers placed in the soil. In the background, a yellow building with scaffolding and a white tent stands behind greenery where a few
A botanical garden scene featuring beds of orange and yellow marigolds in the foreground, with a green metal railing enclosing a leafy tree, a wooden bench, and a green trash
A sloped botanical garden bed planted with diverse ground covers, broad-leafed succulents, and pink-flowering plants, set among scattered rocks and marked with small black identification labels, with a chain-link fence and trees in the background.
A small, still pond edged with grasses, reeds, and moss sits beneath the branches of a large tree in a garden
A garden plot features a tall, bushy climbing plant with dense green leaves surrounded at its base by clusters of orange and red marigold flowers, set on dark soil with a dirt path in the foreground. In

Tuesday evening I met with friends of beer and pork knuckle at Lemkes. Very delicious 😀

A roasted meat dish with a knife stuck into it sits on a white rectangular plate alongside roasted potatoes and sauerkraut, served on a dark wooden table. Two glasses of beer and a beer bottle are placed behind the plate, with seated diners visible in the background.

On Saturday our little village community had the annual gathering of the Heimatverein. Elections were due and a new head of the board was elected together with the rest of the board. Unanimous vote like it’s GDR times 😉 But I’m actually very proud of our small village that the Heimatverein unites and represents almost all inhabitants of the village. It’s a really good and lively community where we help each other and take care of our village as a community. That’s no small feat in these times of growing division and individualism.

And to proof the point we had almost a second Dorffest naturally after the official part. People brought cakes and salads, there was beer and other beverages and of course a barbecue. Everyone stayed late even after the official part to enjoy the company and chatter.

Vaultwarden Restore

Since I’m switching from 1Password to Vaultwarden/Bitwarden as password manager, I had to seriously test the restore from my backup. Turns out there are quite some hurdles to overcome. First I’m double encrypting the backup. First with a GPG key and then the Restic backup. Restic backup goes to an offsite backup storage.

In order to restore, I had to first find the credentials to pull the Restic backup from the offsite storage and have the Restic encryption key to open the Restic vault in the first place.

Now having the vault warden data locally on a different machine, I had to figure out how to bring the service up again. There is a little bit of manual clean up of the SQLite DB needed before the container can be started.

To connect a Bitwarden client to the running Vaultwarden one needs an SSL endpoint. So just bringing up the container doesn’t necessarily help. I ended up using Caddy as a reverse proxy as that creates self-signed certificates locally. With that I was able to login to my restored vault on a different machine and get to my password. That’s a good start. I’ll write up a dedicated article on the restore with the technical details.

Have to research some more stuff around it as I’ve heard rumours that some stuff might not work if the domain name doesn’t match the original vault.

I had also confirmed that the macOS and Linux Desktop clients of Bitwarden continue to work if the server is offline. Also did the Firefox Extension of Bitwarden continue to work for me on Linux and macOS.

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