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Jon Postel

I was reminded of Jon by this article in Wired, mentioned in some random Reddit post (and yes, the slug in the URL has a typo in it…). I worked (indirectly) for Jon at ISI for a few years. He was ...

Parkrun

Parkrun (also Parkrun US and the original Parkrun UK) is a fun, low-key, 5k weekly race.

Unifi Controller in a container

Notes for myself to run Unifi controller (and particularly MongoDB) in containers.

Pi-hole in a container

Notes on setting up Pi-hole in a container.

ZSH with dotfiles

Notes for myself on installing standard set of dotfiles.

Automatically Switch Display Input Based on Keyboard

Some scripts to conveniently share a monitor and Bluetooth keyboard between multiple Macs.

Time Machine Backups to Samba Share on ZFS

Notes from setting up a Ubuntu server with ZFS and using it as a server for Time Machine backups.

Home Grown Dynamic DNS

My setup to do dynamic DNS updates to Cloudflare. The package available are too heavyweight or don’t do what I want; it’s simple enough to write my own.

Recover Previous Versions of VS Code Files

If you accidently overwrite a file in VS Code (with uncommitted changes…), you might get lucky and find it in VS Code caches.

Store Mappings

When you first get here you’ll realize that a lot of the big US chains are not in Ireland. I’m not saying they should be, but if you find yourself saying “I need to get X from Y”, this little guid...