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I spend a lot of time at my desk, whether it's actually doing my job, sitting in meetings or doing something else interesting.

Swap (or the Page file in Windows) is a way of taking unused disk space and turning it into RAM.

If you're reading this post through an RSS aggregator, or were directed here from one, you may have already seen the issue I'm about to describe, and already swore my name.

Computers exist for doing work, usually useful, often not.

GitHub, my public code hosting platform of choice (I have my own Gitea server, too), has GitHub Pages, a free static file hosting platform.

If you look at any software project, its codebase is rarely just the application itself.

Using an ORM adds a handy layer between you and the database tables.

I've never been a huge fan of cameras inside my house.

This is the 101st post on my website.

BeautifulSoup is a very popular HTML parsing library for Python.

Today is a special day for me, professionally anyway.

Today is world backup day, a day to highlight the importance of backups, protecting data, and keeping systems secure (at least that's what Wikipedia says).

It was recently announced that Twitter was going to begin hiding two-factor authentication (2FA) behind a paywall, or at least that's what a lot of people saw.

Over the past few months, I've been watching a lot more content on the TV, sat on the sofa, than at my desk like I used to.

It's that time of year again, time to steal some of Cortex's search rankings to talk about my own "State of the Apps" - the applications and setups I use to make my life what it is.

For a few years now, I've tried as hard as I can to run everything on servers I control, ideally servers I physically control.

Prometheus is a crazy powerful metrics and monitoring tool.

Power bills in the UK are starting to skyrocket, and the costs of self-hosting are going up as a result.

It happened again....

I love RSS, and I love that it exists.

Last night, the sky was filled with thunderstorms.

It's something no one wants to see: You open up an important file, and are met with very different content to what you're expecting.

Internet Explorer was, in its prime, the most popular internet browser in the world.

Lots of applications use databases to store data.

It's a new year, so it's time to reflect back on the tools I used last year, how they'll change this year, and how they might change in future.

The cloud is just someone else's computer.

For the last 7 years or so, I've had some form of server sitting in my house.

For me, every Monday is updates day.

I've used Ansible for a number of years for the provisioning of both my servers and desktops.

It was a normal (for 2021) Sunday evening back in July, I was minding my own business, obviously doing something super cool, when I spotted a message from a certain badger-y fellow in the Self Hosted show's Discord.

It's no secret that GitLab is a beast of an application.

Both LXC and Docker are great containerization technologies, brought to you by the powers of the Linux kernel.

The internet is a pretty big place - a huge amount of data (approximately 131TB per second) is transferred over it every second of every day.

Docker containers (like onions) have layers.

Docker is a great containerization technology for running applications.

For anyone who's spoken to me, they'll know I'm very quick to link people to posts I've written.

I have a bunch of VMs and LXCs on my proxmox server.

My website is built with Hugo, a great static site generator with a bunch of features.

Static sites, ie those which are just files on disk rather than requiring a custom application or database to run, are incredibly simple to write.

As a developer I do basically everything in git and for fun I run my own git server on my home server.

Backups are critical to any systems longevity and reliability.

This process is now out of date, since I rewrote my website.

Back in December, I fully rebuilt my home server from the ground up based on Proxmox.

YouTube is the largest video hosting platform on the planet, serving well over 1 billion videos a day to its over 30 million daily active users.

It's that time again, time for another Django LTS release.

ZFS is a great filesystem, especially for any kind of data storage, but the fact it's not integrated into the Linux kernel makes it a risky choice for the root OS.

At some point, servers need to be put on the public internet.

Nebula is a great mesh network I recently deployed into my stack.

Yesterday, I moved my Git server from GitLab to Gitea.

WireGuard has been the "hot new thing" when it comes to VPNs, but it's not always the best suited for every workload.