Danny

Every so often I hit some small, specific annoyance, and instead of living with it I spend an afternoon vibe coding my way to a fix.

For the last year or so I’ve been running three eSIMs on my iPhone: personal, work, and a data-only travel SIM that swaps in whenever I’m abroad. iOS only lets two eSIMs be active at any one time, which meant a small but constant dance of enabling and dis…

I’ve been using VeraCrypt for encrypted vaults for a while now.

Before I get into this: there are probably a hundred ways to achieve what I’m about to describe, and most of them are equally valid.

Fair warning: this post contains spoilers for both Daemon and Freedom™.

A Fortune survey doing the rounds this week has thousands of CEOs admitting that AI has had no measurable impact on employment or productivity.

About a year ago I moved my personal messaging to Signal as part of a broader push to take ownership of my digital life.

If you’ve read much of this blog, you’ll know I have a thing for privacy.

One of the frustrations with traditional network-wide ad blocking is that it only works when you’re at home.

I wanted to make this blog available as a Tor hidden service.

If you manage dotfiles in a public Git repository, you’ve probably faced the dilemma of how to handle secrets.

One of the small joys of running a static blog is scheduling posts in advance.

I’ve been a Spotify subscriber for years.

A few weeks ago, I came across A Word on Omarchy which highlighted some security gaps in Omarchy’s default configuration.

I’ve been exploring ZeroNet recently, a peer-to-peer web platform that’s been around since 2015 but still feels like a glimpse of what the internet could be.

I recently passed my advanced motorcycle test with the IAM.

I’ve been chasing the perfect productivity setup for longer than I care to admit.

Six months ago, I wrote about my privacy reboot — a gradual shift toward tools that take both privacy and security seriously.

We’ve all seen them: those productivity YouTubers with perfectly lit home offices explaining how they maintain “deep work” for 12+ hours a day.

We like to believe we’re in control.

Tucked away in a parenting book I read nearly two decades ago — title and author long lost to time — was a metaphor that lodged itself in my brain and never left.

Is there some magic in writing every day for 100 days?

Six Month Update Curious how this privacy reboot actually worked out?

I have, for a long time, been looking for a better alternative to Google Photos.

It is the time of year again where I decide to update my local computer configuration, as well as any remote linux server(s) that I am maintaining.

When running a powershell script, I often find I need to run the script in an elevated prompt.

More and more I find myself quickly spinning up a new Windows VM on my unraid server.

When accessing remote servers that I am responsible for, I always initiate a tmux session along with the SSH session.

I finally had chance to get a dedicated server at Hetzner for my own projects and use.

The latest version of Ubuntu has recently been released (20.04 LTS) and along with it comes the latest version of tmux.

I recently purchased another Raspberry Pi 4 but this time I wanted to use Ubuntu 20.04 and I wanted to use a USB 3 1TB external hard drive as the boot disk.

I recently noted in a blog post that I use a short snippet to either connect to an existing tmux session when I start a new SSH connection, or create a new tmux session if an existing one doesn’t exist.

I have been using Teckin smart plugs around the house for quite some time now.

When using RemoteApp on Microsoft Server 2016 I noticed that whenever you add the RemoteApp workspace feed to iOS or iPadOS devices, the resources are listed under ‘Work Resources’.

Over the years I have used many different methods of failover for primary to secondary, sometime tietary, wan links on Mikrotik devices.

I have been using tmux as an alternative to screen for a couple of years so far.

I have used PiVPN for many projects over the past few years.

After a lot of trial and error getting a test Cisco 7906G handset working with an Asterisk PBX I thought it would be useful to make a note of the configuration options I used and the files that finally worked.

I recently needed to receive .txt files from a laboratory analyser, convert it to PDF and then transfer it to a local SMB share - but - the analyser results text file has to be over 30 minutes old before the whole process begins.

This is the first post of this new blog.