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Baking my Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pis are great. They have actually run a lot of my home network for over a decade. And when I say “they”, I actually mean “it”. I’ve been running a Raspberry Pi B (2+) as my Pi-Hole (DNS level ad-blocking), my PiVPN (a REALLY straightforward way to tunnel all my mobile traffic back through…
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Where did all the vowels go?
Back in the early days of smartphones, Apple took the branding path of adding a lowercase ‘i’ to the front of everything. iPods, iPads, iPhones, iMacs – there became a proliferation of additional vowels for no good reason I could ever quite fathom. It felt like an attempt at a bit of counter-culture, as everyone…
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How do you know when you’ve run out of invisible ink?
So last week, I shared my Nagios script for checking the pizza orders around the Pentagon and the Whitehouse – and this week, I thought I’d share another of my customised Nagios plugins – again based on scraping the content of a webpage. It came about because I needed to print something, and the shitty…
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Nagging while the pizza burns
I’ve always had a vague fascination with how people can take data and make huge leaps into the darkness with them, carrying a light they’ve somehow fashioned out of the madness. Okay, it’s a bit of a tortured metaphor, and an overworked title, but it doesn’t make it any the less true. My first recollection…