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This post is mostly so that future me can find my Debian package without having to ferret around on various laptop and other disks :) I just set up (yet) another machine.

On building a mocking library for Apache Kafka.

When I got a 3D printer I swore I would not be one of those people who spent all their time printing upgrades for their 3D printer.

Ugh, this drives me absolutely mental!

Well, this is one of those 21st Century problems.

Alright, all the cool kids are doing cool things with LLMs.

Another one from the “I never can remember this damn thing” file … putting it here so I know where to look it up next time.

Putting together a homelab Kubernetes cluster in my own stubborn way.

With one thing and another I’ve recently been feeling quite nostalgic for the technology landscape of my early university days (around 1990) and so I wanted to write a little bit about that.

Putting together a homelab Kubernetes cluster in my own stubborn way.

You remember NetBooks, right?

Putting together a homelab Kubernetes cluster in my own stubborn way.

Putting together a homelab Kubernetes cluster in my own stubborn way.

Putting together a homelab Kubernetes cluster in my own stubborn way.

Putting together a homelab Kubernetes cluster in my own stubborn way.

This article got some traction on Hacker News and spent most of a day on the front page; see bottom of this page for some related footnotes.

This one’s just a little aide memoire for the (many) times I’m fiddling around with the tramming and/or calibration of the 3D printer.

Checking a newly created DynamoDB table I wanted to use the AWS CLI tool to quickly check that a record looked right.

After getting stuck in PostNord limbo for a week or two my Ender Extender 400 kit has finally arrived.

This is a memory-jogger for me when making changes to my 3D printer’s firmware.

After a day spent cursing the EATX standards gods, offering up a few skinned-knuckle blood sacrifices, and the other appropriate motions in getting the second hand desktop computer with a GPU back up and running, I was able to spend this morning trying out

TL;DR Disable i915 graphics module to stop freezes in Ubuntu on a Latitude 7490 I recently swapped out my day-to-day personal Dell XPS laptop for a similarly specced Dell Latitude, the 7490 with an i7-8650 CPU and “Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2)”.

That’s the word that drives me nuts when I see it in print.

This could be told as an epic tale of consultancy derring do in the Tolkien style, only with less bad verse, fewer elves, and a minimum of talking trees.

I recently noticed an odd feature when scrolling the page on Hacker News.

As a teenager I read an unholy quantity of sci fi of variable quality.

Well, I’ve wrapped up with Diabol AB and from next month I’ll be looking for something new.

At any given time I seem to have about a dozen ridiculous pipe-dream projects kicking around my head.

My current work from home setup is pretty good, but with two very different sized monitors, and my spare mouse that turns itself off to save power, I have a tendency to mislay the mouse cursor.

Things I learned (so far) trying to draw 3D stuff in the browser to view on my Oculus Quest VR headset: WebVR is now WebXR You must have a “secure host” for the site to enable WebXR, which basically means https protocol or http to localhost.

Explaining and demonstrating the use of template parameters in wiremocked responses within a Spring Boot based integration test.

When I moved to Sweden I discarded the majority of the physical books I’d accumulated over the years.

TL;DR: I may be about to break my email - so if it seems like I’m not replying to you you might want to poke me via another channel (Facebook, Phone, Post, Elaborate Steganographic Cat Pictures and so forth).

Just today I was piffling about with Rust to do some very simple AWS commands (nothing you can’t already do with the AWS command line tools).

I’ve just put an article on using Testcontainers from Java up on Github, complete with example code in the same repository: Integration testing against real services with JUnit and Testcontainers I think it’s pretty good, so go read it if integration test…

On Sunday 7th July 2019 I got married to Hanna.

An earlier post about some niggles with Ubuntu packages reminded me of just how smooth things are in general.

Update: I amended the implementation to use Lambdas instead of requiring you to derive from the Continuations class.

Abstract: Ubuntu 18.04 astonishingly installs Open JDK 10 instead of Open JDK 11 for package openjdk-11-jdk.

To take my mind off The Rigamarole 2018 planning frenzy I’ve recently been reading “Farthest North” by Fridtjof Nansen.

Update: See foot of page if you’re on Ubuntu 18.04 From time to time I pretend to be a swing DJ of sorts.

Radio Sweden in simple language Visual aids for Swedish Good (I think?)

A while ago I fell in love with Hanna, a wonderful Swedish lady.

This is where I give things a whirl for blogging with the Hugo static site generator.