Building Back Better
Rebuilding all our virtual servers onto new hosting has been an educational experience, and as you might expect, very different to the first time round in 20...
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Mythic Beasts
After more than a decade renting a dedicated server from Bytemark, my friends and I have decided to move on.
How Wordpress got itself fired
I’ve used Wordpress ever since I set this blog up in 2007. For the most part, it worked and stayed out of my way.
Leaky abstractions 2: Kubernetes/Docker and file permissions
Following on from the tale of VMWare and the massive packets, another leak recently sprung by an abstraction... Those of us who have been doing Docker for...
When Kubernetes met VMWare: look at the size of those packets
Whether your software counts as "microservices" or not, if it has more than three distinct components, Kubernetes is one way of deploying it on-site to a la...
Saving Macclesfield & Bollington URC hundreds of pounds a year with 20 minutes’ work
I'm not currently a church treasurer, but I still help one or two of them out with money and/or technology queries, and this is a case in point. Just to b...
Cycliq Fly12 CE cycle camera/light
Remember that new cycle cam I ordered four months ago? I was on the verge of giving up and getting a refund when FedEx finally turned up with it. So, was ...
Why this is a good week to ditch WhatsApp for Signal
WhatsApp is a phone app which lets you participate in group chats with your contacts. It also does voice calls and video, and it's encrypted, which means it...
The Twelve South StayGo USB-C Hub
As mentioned here previously, the rise of USB-C is a good thing, and hopefully means an end to needing different proprietary chargers for different laptops....
Ethernet over coax
Like most of the world's office workers, I've been based at home for the majority of 2020. And one thing that's been bugging me is connectivity to my desk. ...