Positive Habits
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I’m trying to write more often. In a quite a nebulous hand-wavey way, I want to improve my ability to put thoughts to paper, so I can communicate more effectively. [ read on → ]
Java Still Sucks
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I love using Jenkins for my personal projects and some home automation tasks. [ read on → ]
Enterprise Resource Planning, for the Home
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I live in a flat which I share with some really good friends; meals are planned and shared to lighten the load and costs between us all, same with household supplies. [ read on → ]
After Hours On-Call Support
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The company I work for is the antithesis of Google; where Google kills products almost religiously, my workplace has deprecated almost nothing in thirty years of existence, but still loves to ship new products and systems. [ read on → ]
Monitoring Your Self-Hosted Estate
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If you build and develop a system with paying customers, you know that tracking and publishing service uptime is absolutely critical to build trust. [ read on → ]
Rust
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The Rust programming language has been one of those things that I want to get into, but have just been struggling to get my head around. [ read on → ]
New Year’s Resolutions
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Its getting real close to that time of year again, where we all pretend to perform some serious introspection and decide that we have no real issues other than superficial. [ read on → ]
Distro-Hopping
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After spending an entire year of promising myself I wouldn’t distro-hop into another Linux OS any more, I thought I would reward myself by installing another OS. [ read on → ]
Advanced Custom Shortcuts on Windows
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Shortcuts on Windows are annoying. Inside those little binary lnk files is a large number of properties which are essential to doing some pretty cool stuff. [ read on → ]
Routing by Subdomain in ASP.NET Core 2.2
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A long time ago I wanted to do some routing through a project using a wildcard subdomain, something like a simulated multi-tenanted setup for a service. [ read on → ]