Peter Hicks' Blog

For several years, Electromagnetic Field has operated its own internal telephone system.

After running Proxmox 8.x in a lab environment for two years, this weekend was an appropriate time to upgrade.

Some years ago, I bought some APC Back-UPS Pro units to keep a few important but non-critical home items working.

With numerous devices on my network, it’s useful to be able to see log files in one central place.

I am a long-time user of Apache ActiveMQ.

Background Back when dial-up was 33.6k and HTML email was frowned upon, I ran my own mail server.

After leaving the networking industry in 2013, I decided to replace the Cisco network equipment at home with Mikrotik for reasons of cost and power.

After being inspired by Piotr Przybyl‘s talk about integration testing, I started off a new project with some thorough testing of a Spring Boot JAR.

macOS Ventura has been released.

In the past few weeks, I’ve been actively looking at how I can manage all my ‘smart’ (or ZigBee/WiFi connected) IoT devices in my home from a central place.