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I recently bought a house with an Ideal boiler and a wireless thermostat called a “Halo”.

It’s been about eight years since I started running network services in my home.

Currently, “AI agents” like Claude Code are all the rage for software development.

The SQL standard includes a boolean type which, unsurprisingly, represents a Boolean value.

If you are thinking about using an LLM to communicate with me, you will be glad to hear I’ve just developed an exciting new technique which will save us both time.

Metabase is a really nice free software business intelligence tool.

One of the most tried and tested techniques in programming is to build components that map closely to the real-world problems you are trying to solve.

Talos Linux is a minimal Linux distribution designed purely for running Kubernetes nodes.

In a previous article I wrote about adding maps to my blog, which is a static site.

The West Highland Way is a waymarked, long-distance path in Scotland.

I’ve been using Kubernetes successfully for a while, but I felt like I still didn’t fully understand the difference between an Ingress and a LoadBalancer.

Habits are really important.

I ran into a weird problem where I couldn’t access the OPNsense web UI using an OPT1 interface.

The title of this post isn’t supposed to be provocative.

The Norfolk Coast Path (NCP) is a waymarked, long-distance footpath and National Trail in England.

At first glance, undo seems like a simple thing expected of most software these days and hardly worth writing about.

When you work a lot on the command line, history can be invaluable.

For as long as I’ve been a Firefox user—almost 20 years at this point—it has featured a “quick find” bound to the venerable / (forward slash) key.

Org mode supports icons in its agenda views.

This blog is a static site built with Hugo.

Docker Compose is a brilliant tool for bringing up local development environments for web projects.

I use the Unbound DNS resolver built in to pfSense.

Even after using Emacs for 15 years there’s still so much I can learn.

This is a little trick I just applied and thought was cool enough to write down.

I’ve been using Emacs for almost 15 years now.

On Linux, software should generally be installed with your system package manager (apt, yum, portage etc.)

In which I compare cooking food with building software

If you want to start Arduino programming you’ll notice a lot of the documentation and tutorials are centred around the Arduino IDE.

I love going to the cinema, but I’ve always been disappointed that I can’t see older films and I can’t see them when it’s convenient for me.

I’ve always thought I should write a blog, but I just never got around to setting it up.