Caius Theory

For the Ford StreetKA 1.6 convertible (first generation), presumably sold anywhere but this one is from the UK.

In a similar vein to git git git git git, if you’re using jj and find you’ve accidentally typed one jj too many in the command line, it errors at you.

I’ve been wearing an Apple Watch pretty regularly for nearly a decade at this point (October 2015), and have picked up a few bands over time that I swap between.

Ruby on Rails has built-in support for managing uploaded files with ActiveStorage, which both cleans up your application code and acts as an abstraction over different storage backends.

Rake is a Make-like program implemented in Ruby (to quote the website.)

Wanted to fire up OmniOS to play with and didn’t have any spare x86 hardware to hand so decided to figure out running it in UTM on Apple Silicon, meaning it needs emulation as OmniOS is x86 only.

Back in 2019 I picked up a pair of Sony WH-1000XM3 Headphones for using in the office.

Installing ruby through asdf on Apple Silicon Macs1 will attempt to build a custom OpenSSL for each install because it can’t find OpenSSL from homebrew in /usr/local, as that’s now installed in /opt/homebrew.

An amusing idea from @xor@mastodon.xyz for Mastodon instance names (which form part of your username) has been taking three word phrases from Moby Dick and trying to find available domain names, so you could host your instance at famous.whaling.house for…

HP Microserver Gen8 machines have a HP iLo 4 built in for remote hands management.

RAF Shawbury host an annual 10km running race, and I entered this time because a friend suggested it as an event to aim for over the summer.

Occasionally I end up with devices on the local network that don’t emit their hostname over DHCP, so when listing the current leases on the EdgeRouter’s cli, they just appear as “?”.

I’ve owned a BODUM Bistro Coffee Grinder for a number of years, and aside from occasionally running rice through to clean the grinding surfaces haven’t had any issues with it.

From reading Chrome is Bad, it seems in some situations the updater (also known as keystone) can chew up CPU cycles.

Following a product launch at work earlier this year, I theorised if someone was watching the published lists of SSL Certificates they could potentially sneak a peak at things before they were publicised.

Edit: Originally this post was written to be a workaround for Tailscale routing all DNS traffic over its own link when you configured it to push out existing DNS Server IPs.

Having a need to write some BDD-esque tests without the need of putting them in front of non-technical people, I was recently playing around with rspec feature specs.

Sometimes it’s useful to be able to craft a request to one server, using a DNS name that’s either not defined or currently pointed to a different IP.

My Mini One 2003 R50 1.6 litre petrol engine takes specific BMW 5w30 Longlife-04 oil.

Over time I’ve managed to build up quite the collection of Gists over at Github, including secret ones there’s about 1200 currently.

Working somewhere where we prefix our branches with the creator’s initials, I sometimes forget to do so.1 This leads to me having to rename the branch, typing out the whole name again after adding cd/ to the start of it.

In Ruby it’s easy to structure data in hashes and pass it around, and usually that leads to errors with calling methods on nil, or misspelling the name of a key, or some such silly bug that we might catch earlier given a defined object with a custom Class…

CircleCI have released their version 2.0 platform, which is based on top of docker and moves the configuration for each project into a config file in the git repository.

Computers are great at automatically checking things, and git has a mechanism for running hooks before events happen.

Given the following is broadly true: Rubies installed to ~/.rubies (via ruby-install most likely) Gems for each ruby version installed under ~/.gem (via chruby most likely) What to do when you want to reclaim some disk space?

Something goes here and something else over there slowly wrapping lines a little each time oh no, you fucked up one little comma and now everything is running away drastically from you End it.

Ever found you’ve accidentally entered too many gits in your terminal and wondered if there’s a solution to it?

My home server is a HP Proliant Microserver Gen 8, which is modestly powerful and runs everything I need at home in a fairly compact footprint without being too noisy or power hungry.

Second year in a row doing this Tri, last year I came away feeling like I hadn’t given it my best and wanted to return to complete unfinished business.

Given a dead router, how do you get back online whilst you wait for the replacement part to arrive?

I’ve been wanting to drop more memory in my HP Microserver G8, but hoping to find a cheaper alternative to buying new sticks from Crucial.

Recently I’ve been writing a bunch of bash scripts for various things.

My 1996 e36 BMW 328i Convertible was having trouble starting, and it’s always broken up slightly at idle since I took ownership of the car.

You have some crazy idea for an iOS app that uses HealthKit so you fire up Xcode, create a new project & add the HealthKit entitlement.

I recently reinstalled a laptop and in doing so setup full disk encryption in a slightly strange fashion.

The initial pain point when upgrading a rails app is figuring out which of your dependencies are blocking you upgrading the actual rails gem (& immediate dependencies, actionpack, etc.).

Recently I managed to hose a box in a perfectly self-inflicted storm of idiocy.

500m Pool Swim: 00:11:34 Felt good setting off, within a couple of lengths felt like I had no energy.

Given a FreeBSD instance without a configured network interface that you’d like to configure, first check what the name of the interface you want to configure is with ifconfig.

SoundCloud appears to have gained popularity in recent times for hosting podcasts on.

Using exec(3) from Go is simple enough, once you figure out to look in the syscall package and how to pass arguments to the new command.

Given a non-global zone in SmartOS that we want to change the hostname of, we need to make sure to edit the following files to change it: /etc/hosts /etc/nodename A quick way to do that is with sed (renaming “fred” to “beth” here): sed -e 's/fred/beth/g'…

Using ruby-install, homebrew building it for use with chruby, here’s how I install Rubinius under Yosemite (works for Mavericks as well.)

SmartOS mounts /etc/shadow from /usbkey/shadow so we can change the root password for the global zone after install.

There’s a few community-provided patches for SmartOS that enable KVM on AMD processors amongst other things, and given the HP Microserver has an AMD processor, that’s quite useful for turning it into a better lab server.

My first Olympic distance triathlon, and the first time I’ve ever run 10km to boot. 1500m Open Water (Freshwater Lake) Swim: 00:38:08 Equally happy and upset with my swim.

I noticed this morning that my volume down button (-) wasn’t working on my iPhone 5 running iOS 7.

Turns out you can run a swift file without having to compile it into a binary somewhere and then run that binary.

Successfully completed my second Sprint Triathlon of the season in Nantwich. 500m Swim - 00:10:49 Felt good swimming this.

Completed the York sprint distance tri in 1:28:37 total, and didn’t die in the process.