David Goodwin

Sometimes we keep doing things in the way we always have … even though we know there are better ways – sticking with the same-old-approach is simple.

So since starting with copilot a few months ago, I eventually decided to explore Claude code… and I’m starting to think I’m now a servant to the AI overlords.

I’ve been using the github copilots agent a bit for work and personal stuff.

With my ignorant hat on, I’m kind of surprised “The Grid” would know about something happening tomorrow at 8am … but what would I know.

I’ve wanted to get solar panels etc on our house for ages; but the last house was shaded too much, and for this one other things felt like they needed doing first.

It has recently been a passionate subject, and I’ve seen quite a few people (colleagues, community members) dismissing anything with “ai” in it as “slop”.

So, I’ve been using headscale for the last few months, combined with a cheap low spec VM from MythicBeasts.com (as my VPN “server” or at least exit node).

A little over 10 years ago, in a previous role/company, I designed and implemented a website hosting environment (with a catchy name of “w 3 p cloud”) to …. support WordPress/LAMP like environments have some sort of process/file isolation between sites, so

For sometime, I’ve been using Wireguard for a VPN to use when I’m out and about etc.

I have a legacy virtual machine scale set which was not created with Encryption at Host and with Trusted Launch.

Yesterday, I spent most of my day wondering what was wrong with my unbound configuration…. as a TL;DR, if you’re creating a new TLD (e.g. foo.lan) you may need to disable DNSSEC checks on it within unbound’s config using the ‘domain-insecure‘ setting – For