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Like most people in tech in the year of our lord 2026 I have opinions about AI.

Blogs have gone through various styles over the years; static hand-crafted posts, forum-based, CMS's (Drupal, Wordpress), and back to static sites.

On starting a new job recently (well, last year when I started this entry), I have been reminded yet again just how long it takes an Operations person (Sysadmin, SRE, whatever you want to call us this year; I'm going to use 'Ops' for this post) up to spee…

Since /random/bread we have moved cities, and I'm continuing to make bread.

Or, how I lost my mind

System Administration, or more accurately the Operations side of IT, is at its heart a technically complex job.

For a holiday project I'm enhancing Cookiemaster to be able to force cookies for your choice of domains to be Session (transient, go away when you close the browser) rather than persistent.

AWS Elastic File System (EFS) is an NFS compatible network-accessible shared storage system.

I recently read this excellent article https://www.producttalk.org/2018/02/co-creating/ which, amongst other things, talks about avoiding a commitment and confirmation bias.

Or: a little clue as to how the sausage is made.

I inherited an LTO-4 SCSI-attached tape drive recently (yes, old-school, I know, it's mostly just for fun), and have been fiddling with it to do some tape-based offsite backups (to complement my other offsite backups).

I had reason to re-build a custom grafana Debian package a few weeks back.

I finally completed my first WebExtension today.

Despite being in IT and doing things in and around web-development for 20 years, my focus has been on System Administration for a long time.

I love performance graphs and monitoring software; graphs are pretty, and there's nothing quite like the feeling of using a graph to identify precisely the cause of a technical problem.