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For the past few weeks i’ve been frustrated by a minor issue I couldn’t track down.

I’ve started using NixOS heavily in my homelab in the last few months, inspired by some limited experience a year ago and my love of Terraform I decided to take the plunge with one system in the lab, eventually it finished with the decommissioning of my V…

Tiling window managers have interested me for some time, but being a avid macOS user i’ve not had much oppertunity to use them, my last attempt was using GlazeVM on a Windows system at my previous job.

Threads is a protcol under the Matter ecosystem, and at its core it is a dressed up version of Zigbee made to handle IPv6 over the air rather than the odd device protocol.

Me, very happy to be standing in front of some Luxo Jr. artwork.

This was our first meetup after UK Games Expo in June, and it seems that Oink Games has a little bit of a stranglehold on the group.

vCluster is a great tool for anyone managing larger Kubernetes clusters which may contain multiple users, environments, a need for larger isolation between workloads.

They say that life always throws the curve-balls at the most inopportune moments, and needless to say 2024 has been the very definition of that.

I’m currently in the process of improving the build process for some VMware templates, and as part of that, I have to make sure that a sizeable list of security requirements gets ticked off.

I don’t like sharing a lot of details of my personal life, but from time to time I feel the need to ‘shout out into the ether’, not to be heard, but almost as a way of personally processing what i’m experiencing.

During the first weekend in June, I made my yearly pilgrimage to the UK Games Expo at the Birmingham NEC.

We’re an Apple household, phones, watches, laptops, iPads, TVs, everything.

I really love my Doxie scanner, a little portable device that can run off AA batteries and also write out straight JPEG files to an SD card without much hassle.

Since my heart attack I’ve been scheduled for a confirmation MRI scan of my heart.

It is going to be a short one this week.

Oh boy, it’s been a while since I promised this type of post.

The Netatalk logo.

On the 30th of December, I sat on the sofa finishing a few bits of coding on the Hackspace API for Leigh Hackspace.

In October 2003, I made my first leap into using an Apple device.

Sometimes I come across interesting content, but usually it’s read, and then forgotten within a few hours.

This is a bit of a vent, I may be wrong, I may be a little caught up in the moment, but a simple task should not be this difficult.

The Trust WB-1200P, a webcam from the early days of USB devices.

The USW Mini is a tiny, 5 port, PoE or USB-C powered switch from Ubiquiti.

Losing your cached media folder on Mastodon can be a pain.

No, really, that’s all of it.

Mastodon has a storage problem.

Over the bank holiday weekend I had the sad job of closing my workshop.

Recently i’ve spotted quite an up-tick in discussions about blogging and content generation in this quickly evolving federated and user hosted future.

The Promise In my previous post I discussed switching over to Obsidian for my “PKM” with a plan to create a set of tooling around migrating from LogSeq.

dimension.sh is nearly 2 years old.

I’ve operated a relatively simple Home Assistant installation for the past 3 or so years, for the longest time it comprised of a few Hue bulbs, a hub, and a very slow Optiplex FX160 running Home Assistant and a few other services.

I’ve hosted my Home Assistant install on Kubernetes for quite a while, using a basic network setup of Kube Router, MetalLB, and Traefik.

For some time i’ve been using LogSeq as my primary note taking tool, essentially an open source version of Roam Research it quick became a prime choice due to its offline first design.

I need to re-live my youth through the purchase of expensive old technology.

I’m a semi-active participant in the #gemini IRC channel on Tilde.chat, and today I noticed that ew0k had announced Antenna.

Setting up Kiln for this site has been quite the adventure, i’ve been using Hugo for a few years and have grown accustomed to the way of working, ideally I would of continued using it for this site but getting Hugo to support Gemini markup is difficult at…

For some time, I’ve been using a Zig-a-zig-ah and Zigbee2MQTT on a spare Raspberry Pi 2.

TASK [www : Enable httpd_read_user_content] ************************************ 04:03:45 459 fatal: [s1.dimension.sh]: FAILED!

When I switched back to an M1 MacBook Air, I picked a CalDigit TS3+ as my desk dock.

Sometime around 2015 I purchased an MX Master mouse, and I had a gift certificate for PC World (an electronics shop in the UK) which reduced the price to about £40.

This morning I decided to look at my sites, and I counted seven domains where I create some form of written output.

I have an idea of how I want to work.

Well, it’s not strictly one month later, more a month and a bit.

Admitting something isn’t working for you is the first step, next is deciding on what to do next.

I migrated over to Notion (archive.org) within a few hours of opening an account, my discovery of it coincided with my attempt to re-implement my Getting Things Done workflow with P.A.R.A.

bing… bing… Everyone knows that sound.

I walked away from Apple, my Macbook Pro, and OSX about a year ago.

My first reading of Getting Things Done (archive.org) (GTD) by David Allen was back around 2007.

I’ve been a half invested Getting Things Done (archive.org) (GTD) practitioner for the better part of ten years, probably even longer.

It is not unusual to find many people jaded at best about the value of goal-setting, given the stress created by what are often perceived as artificial expectations decreed from on high. - David Allen (archive.org) Nothing sums up my experiences with goals