I’m not a fan of SQL. I always found the syntax to be clumsy and tiresome. Compared to modern coding languages it seems arcane with basic instruction and primitive types. I could have spent more time learning it I suppose but I never wanted to, and I think my time was better spend elsewhere. (To … Read more
tl;dr Use git local repositories for throwaway projects when coding with AI agents. If you really want to keep them down the line you can attach them to a remote repository like GitHub or BitBucket later I’ve started using LLMs and various AI coding tools (MCP servers, AI first IDEs, etc.) to get a handle … Read more
Let me get this out of the way straight off the bat; the Apple StudioDisplay is a wonderful display that renders crisp text and vibrant colors. For software development its 5k resolution gives enough space to view my code and have a couple of windows open side by side. The nano texture glass is a … Read more
My site has been up and running for a few months, and I’ve generated about 6 weeks of daily backups. Each backup is about 100MB so it’s starting to add up. It was time I wrote a script to prune the backups. Well sort of. As the was a very well defined problem (keep some … Read more
Charging for spam whitelists is such a stupid idea I had to cancel my subscription. Once the limit is reached you have to turn off antispam or you will miss emails. So you are effectively paying for a email provider and not getting spam protection.
I have a home server running Ubuntu, which fulfils a multitude of roles for me – SSH server, NAS, sometime web server, data archive and general workhorse for network tasks. It’s currently running mdadm configured in RAID5 with 3x2TB disks. Back in 2020, when building the server, I decided on a 8×2.5″ drive enclosure mainly … Read more
Keeping systems up to date is key for security. Realising my server was way past its prime, I decided to undertake a ‘quick’ update….. it wasn’t quick…
So one Sunday evening back in February I decided to have a go setting up an OpenVPN client/server. This didn’t seem at the time to be a big task as I had done this before, and my memory was of it taking a while to do, but it wasn’t too hard. Boy did it take … Read more
After years of avoiding it, I decided to finally run a WordPress website for my projects and thoughts. I was always on the lookout for the ‘best’ platform for running a site, and even wrote my own based on various stacks including the most recent on Django, but they always fell short. You know there … Read more
