Haewyr's Blog

This summer I had a new garden office installed so I could get my home office out of the house, improve my wife's mood and allow me some peace during the school holidays.

In my 2nd ever post on this blog - 2 years ago!

As mentioned in my last post I have not had working RSS syndication to the Fedi since February.

Since I started getting back into RSS and blogs I have been reading them every day through my RSS reader app on Android.

I was already in the midst of writing a similar post when I saw this pop up on Kev Q's blog so thought I'd save some effort the old-fashioned way and steal it. 1.

I've always been quite fascinated by people who seem maintain a deep interest in a subject over the long term.

Like how I worked on improving my coffee process a while back, I have for the past 6 months or so been working on my porridge recipe to the point now it has become my go-to breakfast and is possibly reached a peak in terms of taste, texture and fuss becau…

I was first exposed to Linux mania in 2000 after downloading a floppy image of Debian 2.2 (Potato) over dial-up, which gave me my first noobie steps into the world of Linux and UNIX-likes in general.

This is a bit of a rambling post where I'm mostly just trying to articulate some thoughts I've had for the past few weeks in the hope that I can eventually put it to rest and move on but feel free to chip in your thoughts on Mastodon or better, your own b…

Following on from my previous post, I had a working central heating set up using home assistant as my thermostat but it was early days and I still wasn't fully confident in my hastily jury-rigged solution so I wanted to see how I can make the old Hive sys…

Soon after moving into my home in 2018, the old boiler packed in, and I needed to order a replacement.

Parenting in the 21st century comes with some new challenges.

This year I promoted by habit of fixing things into a recognised hobby.

I deleted my Facebook account in 2017 which in hindsight was relatively early as it became a popular choice for many in the years that followed.

In the last episode I had resolved to rebuilding my 2nd generation system based on the AthlonXP 2000+ CPU and Asus A7V-133C motherboard that I still owned.

After my last post I managed to find some reasonable deals on a graphics card, a Nvidia Riva TNT2 Pro 32MB and a SB Live Value!

After watching a few too many Unreal Tournament (UT99) music mixes online I made the probably ill-thought-out decision to rebuild the first PC I built using my own money and hands.

For most of the old computer challenge week I mostly used it to hang out on IRC for a couple of days, I stuggled running many applications, even finding apparently 32 bit windows binaries they usually resulted in a "Not a valid win32 application" which I…

For readers unfamiliar, the Old Computer Challenge is an annual week-long event where participants are invited to return to using outdated hardware or software for a week in a demonstration of what you can still achieve without the luxuries of modern comp…

I have used Kindle eReaders for 12 years or so.

I always enjoy a good link dump, while I don't have plans to start my own (yet?)

About 4 years ago we bought a pair of new appliances for the house, a matching HotPoint washing machine and dryer set.

In the last post I installed FreeBSD and wrestled with drivers and got the GPU up and running.

I've been fond of FreeBSD since I first used it around version 9, when it was the base of FreeNAS 9.x back in 2012, and my wild customisations of that software taught me how FreeBSD worked and I liked how it stayed closed to the UNIX philosophy and was a…

The end of December was also the year end of my first year with my plaintext accounting system.

I have been interested in 3D printing for quite a few years but I've put off diving into it due to the time constraints of raising a young family.

Tags: #meshtastic #radio I have a long-standing interest in radio technology, I am a card-carrying radio amateur, although I have been "QRT" (off-air) since shortly after completing my full license exam, due to child care vacuuming up all my free time for…

tags: #coffee #aeropress #frenchpress Coffee is one of my few remaining vices, I don't drink vast amounts, only one or two cups a day before my anxiety kicks in, but it is a comforting habit when there is a lot to freak out about.

It looks fucking great actually - yeah, really nice.

I was recently handed Dell Optiplex GX620 by a family member in exchange for some minor data recovery under the assumption I would then dispose of it (yeh right).

I heard ripgrep was fast but I haven't yet trained my fingers to switch to it as it rarely comes in necessary, but then I needed to throw 6275 patterns at grep to perform an inverse match against a 79MB csv file with almost 350k records.

Inspired by one of 82Mhz recent link-dumps, I dropped Navidrome onto my home server and gave it access to my vestigial music downloads collection.

In May this year, I picked up a Dell Optiplex 3070 SFF at a work charity sale for £50, which is a bargain for this model.