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Previously I installed immich on my home server on a VM, run by OpenBSD’s VMD.

I’m attempting Advent of Code again this year, this time in common lisp.

I recently read Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

I recently read both Strata and The Dark Side of the Sun by Terry Pratchett.

Previously I started investigating the possibility of running Immich natively on my OpenBSD home server.

Immich has been on my radar for a while.

I’ve been reading through The Expanse series by James S.A Corey (actually a pseudonym), at the recommendation of a colleague.

I recently read Flowers for Algernon after a friend brought it up twice in conversation about mental health.

Having got a new server, this time running OpenBSD; I’ve been slowly moving stuff over from the old raspberry pi.

I have replaced my old server with a new one.

I’m doing Advent of Code again, in Scala this year.

I didn’t understand how git really worked, and I was curious.

I recently read Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It, by Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik.

I recently purchased a Tern GSD electric cargo bike.

I wrote a tool to download and manage Zig versions … in zig.

I’ve read The Stranger Times series by Caimh McDonnell.

I converted my blog from hugo to zine.

I recently read The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S Raymond.

I believe that in software development, being open and working in the open are crucial to wellbeing and efficiency; even moreso when working remotely.

I bought a fairphone 4 just under 2 years ago.

I had a go at the One Billion Row Challenge, but in Zig rather than Java.

I recently read Data Oriented Design by Richard Fabian.

I recently upgraded my home broadband, however in the process I lost my static IP address.

I’m doing Advent of Code again this year, this time in Zig.

I’ve been skating indoors at LS-ten skatepark recently, as the poor weather over the last few weeks has made outdoor skating… not fun.

I had a go at writing some code in the Roc programming language.

I wrote a small program for downloading individual files from a remote ZIP file on a http server that supports Range requests.

By Octavia E Butler.

I wrote a minecraft launcher in zig as a learning exercise.

Previously I added a basic comment system to my website using a separate web server which served only the comment HTML.

The four-eyes principle (also known as two-man rule or no-lone-zone) stipulates that for certain very critical operations like the launch of a nuclear weapon or the handling of very sensitive cryptographic key material, at least two qualified persons must…

I haven’t posted about my bike for a while; there have been a couple of changes.

Link to the book.

A while ago I read Enterprise Integration Patterns.

I’ve read Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) from Google/O’Reilly.

Background: at work I help to build a SAAS web application for healthcare.

In a previous post I switched back from fossil to git.

I’ve added an extremely basic, probably insecure, comments form to my blog site.

I recently discovered spotifyd, an open source alternative to the deprecated libspotify.

I’ve been stuck inside with the cold weather recently.

I’m having a go at Advent Of Code this year, this time writing solutions in Rust.

I made another small experiment source to do my blog yet another way; rather than using hugo static site generation, I can leverage Caddy server’s built-in template rendering and markdown support to serve markdown files ‘directly’ without a pre-build step.

I was thinking about this blog and how it’s set up.

I switched to caddy from nginx.

Following my previous post on longboarding, I took a few more trips to the skate park.

A quine is a program that takes no input, and it’s output is it’s own source code.

I recently revisited the idea of installing pi-hole in my local network to help remove ads from miscellaneous devices on my network.

I moved back to git from fossil SCM, after previously migrating the other way.

At work, our main product is a web application.

I tidied up my github and archived a bunch of old repositories.