IPv6 at home from BT
It works - 10/10 on test-ipv6.com; can't really say fairer than that. I did however enjoy the comedy reverse DNS: $ curl http://files.dnorth.net/ipquick.php ...
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IPv6 only IMAP server
Because why not. I have an IPv6 only virtual machine hosted at Mythic Beasts. Sadly, I don't have much time to play with it these days, so I'm retiring it ne...
Blast from the past
I was surprised to find my less-than-a-year-old HP Microserver Gen8 taking over half an hour to come back from each reboot. Closer inspection showed the syst...
The Stuff Should Just Work Epiphany
It doesn't apply to everyone who works in the IT industry, but as most of us get older, we lose our tolerance for things which don't Just Work, at least in o...
Installing a new Raspberry Pi
This has got very slick. These days, if you buy a new Pi with one of their SD cards, it boots to a nice menu asking which operating system you'd like to inst...
GWR, you’re fired
Blissful, unimaginable spaaace! So I'm off to spend the weekend with friends in London, as you do. There are a few things I really want to get done on the tr...
Cheaper isn’t always better
Getting data abroad on EE pay as you go has always been a miserable experience, assuming you're too disorganised to sort it out in advance. You land somewhe...
Abroad with Monzo
I'm in Spain this week for ApacheCon, and Monzo is definitely delivering on the promise - no foreign usage fees, just the MasterCard exchange rate. I got som...
Atom
Perhaps I'm late to this particular party, but Atom is a properly nice modern text editor / light IDE. That is all.
HPE Microserver Gen8
It was about time I pensioned off the tired old Core2 Duo desktop running as my home fileserver. It sucked up sufficient electricity that it was worth having...