JDHeyburn

I finished off my previous post on journalling in Obsidian with a couple of wish lists: I do have some improvements I wish to make such as moving notes away from their respective flat directories. i.e.: Daily notes move from planner/daily to be grouped by…

In this blog post I talk about how I host aria2 on a NixOS server.

I was lucky enough to win a DragonflyDB competition for a free ticket to KubeCon Europe 2024 in Paris!

tl;dr My Caddy configs before were bloody awfully complicated I scrapped that way of doing it and made it simpler in this pull request A gentle reminder I’ve written before about how I use Caddy to reverse proxy my internal services.

Edits 2025-03-26 Periodic Notes are now grouped in directories by their year (and if applicable, month) See blog post: Reorganising Obsidian Journal Notes 2025-01-26 Updated moment locale from gb to en-gb Sundays were incorrectly being templated as the fi…

In my last post I mentioned that I use a “service catalog” as a source of truth for what is deployed where and how it should be configured.

The world of Nix has a bit of a steep learning curve.

I’ve written in the past about some services I host at home which were running on a Raspberry Pi 3 with Raspbian.

UPDATE 2021-06-06 A few days after publishing this I came across a bug where agent jobs would be stuck in pending state.

Over the last UK lockdown I spent some time making sure I had backups of my music collection after I had organised them using beets.

Welcome to the last post in this series where we’ve been exploring SSM Documents, so far we’ve covered: How Command Documents can help to execute commands on EC2 Instances Automating these Command Documents through Maintenance Windows Safely chaining Comm…

UPDATE 2021-12-15 The minify config was incorrect at time of publication, and so it’s been corrected so that minification does happen while not impacting XML files.

In part two of this series we looked at how we can automate SSM command documents using SSM Maintenance Windows.

Last time we looked at writing our own SSM Command Document for the purpose of executing a healthcheck script on a set of EC2 instances across multiple platforms.

It’s been a while since my last post… which could be down to me trying to salvage something out of summer!

I’ve been doing some programming in Go for a side project again, and I’m back using gotests to generate unit tests for functions.

If you’re new to AWS and patching principles then continue reading, else you can skip to juicy stuff below.

During lockdown, I’ve spent a bit of time improving our home network.

I “fixed” the default RSS template used by Hugo to show the full article content, along with images, and also talk about how to have social media cards appear in the RSS items too.

In this article we’re going to continue making some improvements to our Hugo website.

So far in this series we’ve been looking at the infrastructure behind the Hugo website, but I haven’t looked into improving the content layout of the site.

From TravisCI to GitHub Actions In the previous post we looked at moving to a CI/CD model by moving from the deploy.sh script to TravisCI.

Recap Since part 1, we have been using a simple bash script called deploy.sh to build our Hugo website and upload it to our GitHub Pages repo.

This is going to be a relatively shorter post that’ll be in two parts since it’s more of a self-promotion… But as of this Friday just gone, I finally had a pull request approved to be merged to terraform–provider-aws!

In the previous post, we got ourselves up and running with a website generated by Hugo, deployed to GitHub, and hosted by GitHub Pages.

I’ve done a lot of talking about how this website is currently, but let’s talk about how you can get set up with the same as I have done here.

Applying Cartography With my academic background focused in infrastructure, I love seeing diagrams of topologies - they’re a pretty damn useful way of understanding architecture of an application flow amongst other things.

Spice Up Your Life Python 🐍 I’m currently working on a side project that I’ve written in Python.

UPDATE 2020-07-17 I wrote a follow up post to this one using the assert package instead.

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