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An interesting challenge came up an work recently about how to do TLS Client Authentication from Kubernetes pods with short lived certificates.

For a recent project I needed to provision a new PLC on a dedicated network.

I have been writing about how to configure a Raspberry Pi 4, 5 and Pi Zero to act as a USB Ethernet device for a while now.

As part of development and testing FlowFuse I need to run a bunch of supporting services Postgres (database) EMQX (MQTT broker) Valkey (Key/Value data store) Verdaccio (NPM package registry) Stripe simulator (Online Payment provider) The first 3 of these…

In recent posts I’ve talked about setting up an S3 server so my Dad can back up his photos from his Synology NAS to one at my house.

I recently upgraded the storage in my main NAS (as apposed to my all NVME mini NAS) which I use for more longer term “cold” storage.

I’ve been running my HTTP server logs though a tool called goaccess for a while, this tool generates a bunch of charts showing traffic volume and how it breaks down by the different hostnames/services that NGINX proxies for.

I recently had a VM that failed to boot after applying some updates.

For those of you who have been following along on Mastodon for a while you may have noticed the saga of getting FTTP installed at home.

Shell history is a service offered by the shell, usually accessed by pressing the up arrow to retrieve the last executed command (and subsequent presses scrolling further back.

I have recently run into a couple of services that are insistent that my home broadband IP address is not located in the United Kingdom.