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67 articles
Monthly Meanderings: May 2026
Monthly Meanderings: April 2026
Migrating from GitHub to Forgejo
The Case of the Unchanging Config
Monthly Meanderings: March 2026
Modern CSS is fun
The longest way to represent a date
Monthly Meanderings: February 2026
Just a nod
Monthly Meanderings: January 2026
An interesting Tailscale + Docker gotcha
Surge protectors: marketing vs reality
The meaning of life
Monthly Meanderings: December 2025
Exposing game servers over Tailscale
Securing all the things with 1Password
Thinking more about backups
Moving back to a dynamic website
Avoiding the Consequences of Dumb Laws with Tailscale
Further Adventures in Music Organisation
Blogging and the Imaginary Quality Bar
10 Weeks with an Apple Watch 10
Making a font of my handwriting
Fixing a loud PSU fan without dying
Escaping Spotify the hard way
How tech companies failed to build the Star Trek computer
Finding an awkward bug with Claude Code
How I use Tailscale
The Ethics of LLMs
If all you have is a hammer…
An app can be a ready meal
Building a new Computer
Coming around on LLMs
Home Automation Without the Megacorps
The Curse of Knowledge and Blogging
Building a travel toolkit
Simple backups with Restic and Hetzner Cloud
How I Get Things Done
Further adventures in 3D printing
A year of boardgames
HTTP/2 and TLS Server Name Indication
Project log: Filament weight display
Adventures in 3D printing
Upgrading the RAM in a Dell G15 laptop
Generating infinite avatars
Docker reverse proxying, redux
Adventures in IPv6 routing in Docker
Reproducible Builds and Docker Images
Artisanal Docker images
On the utility of user stories
Reverse engineering an Arctis Pro Wireless Headset
Apple, Google and aligned incentives
How to break everything by fuzz testing
An introduction to containers
Obfuscating Kotlin code with ProGuard
Debugging beyond the debugger
Understanding Docker volume mounts
Over-the-top optimisations with Nim
DNS-over-TLS on the EdgeRouter Lite
A look at the DNS habits of the top 100k websites
Android testing with Espresso and Spoon
Shoring up SSHd configuration
Creating an offline GnuPG master key with Yubikey-stored subkeys
Why you should be using HTTPS
Automatic reverse proxying with Docker and nginx
Monitoring power draw with WeMo Insight Switches
Reverse engineering the Sense API