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"Closed" (/2026/06/25/shutters2.jpg) I'm moving to an "SQLite-style open-source but not open-contribution" (https://sqlite.org/copyright.html) model for development.

It's that time of year again.

NAS You want a "NAS" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage) device that is "repairable" (#repairability), "non-proprietary" (#non-proprietary), "reliable" (#reliability), "energy efficient" (#energy-efficiency), "cost efficient" (#cost-e…

Having run "FreeBSD" (https://freebsd.org) for nearly two decades, I eventually got frustrated with it for various reasons and moved my workloads from "a lot of virtual machines on a FreeBSD "bhyve" (https://bhyve.org/) host" to "a lot of "OCI containers"…

After a lot more back and forth with "Bosch support" (/2025/03/27/bosch-serial-numbers.xhtml), I finally got an actual answer.

I'm in the process of migrating "io7m.com" (https://www.io7m.com) to "Hetzner" (https://www.hetzner.com/).

"Years ago" (/2017/10/13/ipv6-and-mtu-woes.xhtml), I had to deal with some aggravation around "IPv6" (/glossary.xhtml#ipv6).

Like any good obsessive, I keep an "inventory" (https://github.com/io7m-com/cardant) of computer parts, tools, and so on.

I'm planning to move hosting from "Vultr" (https://www.vultr.com/) to "Hetzner" (https://www.hetzner.com/).

I did end up buying "6 × 8TB drives" (/2024/11/01/nas-hdd-price.xhtml).

It's that time of year again.

I recently decided to publish a paid-but-open-source "application" (https://www.io7m.com/software/exfilac/) for getting data off of Android devices and into S3 buckets.

Note: Prices aren't static, and everything written here will likely be invalid inside a year.

There's a lot of literature on "filtering pixel art" (https://jorenjoestar.github.io/post/pixel_art_filtering/) in modern rendering engines.

The traditional starting point for monitoring is to install "Prometheus" (https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/) and have it scrape metrics from each machine being monitored.

I was using "Vultr DNS" (https://docs.vultr.com/introduction-to-vultr-dns) to serve DNS records for my various VPS instances up until the point where I wrote and deployed "certusine" (https://io7m.com/software/certusine/) to manage ACME-issued certificate…

Following on from a "previous episode" (/2024/04/28/becoming-organized.xhtml), I've migrated any actively-maintained software projects to the new "organization" (https://github.com/io7m-com), and archived a lot of projects that weren't maintained and were…

In a "previous episode" (/2024/04/22/seasonic-ss-600H2U.xhtml), I moved the contents of a server into a new "SC-316" (https://www.servercase.co.uk/shop/server-cases/rackmount/3u-chassis/3u-server-case-w-16x-35-hot-swappable-satasas-drive-bays-12gbs-hd-min…

I have an idiotic number of GitHub repositories.

I recently moved the components of an existing server into a new "SC-316" (https://www.servercase.co.uk/shop/server-cases/rackmount/3u-chassis/3u-server-case-w-16x-35-hot-swappable-satasas-drive-bays-12gbs-hd-minisas-sc-316/) case.

Edit: "https://github.com/io7m/com.io7m.visual.comfyui.wideoutpaint" (https://github.com/io7m/com.io7m.visual.comfyui.wideoutpaint) One of the acknowledged limitations with "Stable Diffusion" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_Diffusion) is that the un…

Mostly a post just to remind my future self.

I've been working with "Stable Diffusion" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_Diffusion) lately.

It's that time of year again.

A "while ago" (/2023/11/10/batch-files-are-your-only-option.xhtml) I got into a fight with "jpackage" (https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/21/docs/specs/man/jpackage.html).

I've recently been looking into the allocation of device memory in "Vulkan" (https://vulkan.org/).

I'm shutting down my mail server and moving to "fastmail" (https://www.fastmail.com).

Edit: This is "wrong" (/2023/11/27/batch-files-are-not-your-only-option.xhtml).

Like many people, I've been waiting for "JDK 21" (https://jdk.java.net/21/) for a long time.

I bought a "Yamaha Pacifica PAC120H" (https://uk.yamaha.com/en/products/musical_instruments/guitars_basses/el_guitars/pacifica/pac_100.html) a while back.

It's that time of year again.

Did a pile of server updates today, and for some reason one specific VPS refused to boot with this error: "Boot error" (/2022/01/31/booterror.png) It turned out I hadn't updated the boot code to handle the latest zpool version.

It's that time of year again.

I'm attempting to print a part like this: ""Part" (/2021/10/18/thumb_part0.png)" (/2021/10/18/part0.png) The part must be printed in the orientation shown due to the anisotropic properties of 3D printed parts: The part needs to be printed such that the p.…

Installation All of this is in the "documentation" (https://www.io7m.com/software/changelog/documentation/d2e49.xhtml), but here's a friendly version.

It's that time of year again.

Been thinking about protocol versioning recently, and this post is more or less an attempt to organize my own thoughts on the matter.

Ordered and received some "eSun ABS" (http://esun3d.net/products/382.html).

See "Part 1" (/2020/10/30/eryone-petg.xhtml), and "Part 2" (/2020/10/31/eryone-petg-2.xhtml) first!

See "Part 1" (/2020/10/30/eryone-petg.xhtml) first!

I'm relatively new to 3D printing, so I don't have an intuitive understanding of what to expect from various materials.

For 3D printing, I want to print with more challenging materials than the standard "PLA" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polylactic_acid) filament.

Recently decided to start learning about 3D printing.

""Heavy Water Station" (/2020/09/11/heavywater.jpg)" (https://github.com/io7m/com.io7m.visual.heavywater) "Source" (https://github.com/io7m/com.io7m.visual.heavywater)

Gave a presentation at the "Sonatype User Conference" (https://www.sonatype.com/nexus-user-conference-2020) back on "2020-08-12" on how the "Library Simplified" (https://www.librarysimplified.org) project uses "Maven Central" (https://search.maven.org/) a…

""The Sleep Of The Engineer" (/2020/08/23/engineer.jpg)" (https://github.com/io7m/com.io7m.visual.engineer_sleep) "Source" (https://github.com/io7m/com.io7m.visual.engineer_sleep)

I'm considering changing the range of JDKs I support.

I've been running a server on my LAN here for a couple of years.

""The Vanishing Path 1" (/2020/03/19/VanishingPath1.png)" (https://github.com/io7m/com.io7m.visual.vanishing_path1) "Source" (https://github.com/io7m/com.io7m.visual.vanishing_path1)

It's that time of year again.