Lover of all things clever and technical, former YSTV-er doing cloud media stuff at BBC R&D.
samdbmg/dhcp-netboot.xyz is a Docker container that can be dropped into your network to netbook various OS installers and tools. It lets your existing DHCP server hand out addresses, and then acts as a PXE Proxy for clients that want to use netboot. ...
samdbmg/ansible-traefik-auth-proxy combines the Traefik reverse proxy with thomseddon/traefik-forward-auth to provide HTTP reverse proxying, certificate handling with LetsEncrypt and SSO login, either as an Ansible role or a Docker Compose project. T...
I self-host a variety of apps on my own infrastructure, and make extensive use of Ansible playbooks to keep it all running, document everything as code and make it easy to run up new environments to test changes without breaking everything! This post...
I have a TimescaleDB container running on my home server, and recently I wanted to upgrade it from PostgreSQL 13 to PostgreSQL 16. This post documents the process I settled on (and hints at the false starts along the way!) I have a handful of sensors...
I have an old Asus Nexus 7 2013 tablet (codename flo) which is still serving me well ten years on, but occasionally I decide I want to put a newer LineageOS ROM on it, or generally reflash it. Unfortunately, I do this sufficiently infrequently that I...
First off, this isn't what you might call a "supported" configuration so as ever YMMV and don't blame me if it goes horrifically wrong and you end up with two/three systems that won't boot (your VM, your native install and optionally, the VM host :P)...
So here's the problem I found myself faced with today; when I ran Ubuntu 15.04 live on my laptop I could pop open the Additional Drivers tool, enable the driver for my wireless card and get on the Internet, lovely. Then I made the (I think very sensi...
I've been working on my final year project using the GNU ARM Eclipse plugin and the STM32F4 Discovery board to write some simple signal generation software. Eclipse has a button to reset the target and restart debugging on the toolbar, and I figured ...
A baffling problem I came across recently was a server where copying between internal disks ran painfully slowly, getting around 3.3MB/s between internal SATA drives. Of the machine's three disks, two were failing with huge numbers of ATA errors and ...