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2023

Setting up an Azure Site-to-Site VPN to a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter through NAT — 3rd January 2023

2022

On to Mastodon — 20th November 2022
Site-wide configuration with Administrate — 17th November 2022
Self-updating GitHub README — 10th October 2022
Flashing the firmware in an IKEA BEKANT to add position memory — 9th October 2022
Using HTTPListener to build a HTTP Server in C# — 29th April 2022
Week Notes #31 — 2nd March 2022
Converting Unix Shell Aliases to PowerShell — 10th February 2022
Week Notes #30 — 9th January 2022

2021

Week Notes #29 — 21st November 2021
Switching to FeedBin and NetNewsWire — 21st November 2021
Week Notes #28 — 21st June 2021
Filtering Jekyll Posts by Tag — 20th June 2021
Week Notes #27 — 4th May 2021
Week Notes #26 — 20th April 2021
Week Notes #25 — 9th March 2021
Making Drafts' Action Bar fit my workflow — 8th March 2021
Building a Brew Fridge — 24th February 2021
Week Notes #24 — 25th January 2021
A weekend with a Flir ONE — 15th January 2021
Week Notes #23 — 13th January 2021

2020

Week Notes #22 — 2nd November 2020
Week Notes #21 — 26th October 2020
Week Notes #20 — 18th October 2020
Week Notes #19 — 11th October 2020
Week Notes #18 — 15th September 2020
Week Notes #17 — 8th September 2020
Week Notes #16 — 17th August 2020
Week Notes #15 — 29th July 2020
Week Notes #14 — 26th May 2020
Setting Jenkins Credentials with Groovy — 8th May 2020
Week Notes #13 — 5th May 2020
Week Notes #12 — 28th April 2020
Automating Ubuntu 20.04 installs with Packer — 26th April 2020
Week Notes #11 — 20th April 2020
Configuring the Jenkins email-ext plugin with Groovy — 20th April 2020
Week Notes #10 — 6th April 2020
Week Notes #9 — 23rd March 2020
Week Notes #8 — 15th March 2020
Week Notes #7 — 2nd March 2020
Week Notes #6 — 16th February 2020
Week Notes #5 — 9th February 2020
Week Notes #4 — 2nd February 2020
Week Notes #3 — 19th January 2020
Week Notes #2 — 12th January 2020
Week Notes #1 — 5th January 2020

2019

Tailwind CSS with Rails 6 and Webpacker — 10th November 2019
Token Authentication with Rails — 8th November 2019
Some resources for learning Go — 20th October 2019

2018

Structuring Terraform with Remote State — 11th May 2018
Kubernetes with Terraform on Google Cloud — 7th May 2018
Book Review: How To Have Your Cake And Eat It Too: An Introduction to Service Design — 3rd March 2018
Setting up CircleCI 2.0 for Rails — 3rd January 2018
2017 — 2nd January 2018

2017

On Giant Robots for WWDC — 7th June 2017
Co-hosting Build Phase — 7th June 2017

2016

Automating macOS using Ansible — 6th December 2016
Building Virtual Machines with Packer on ESXi 6 — 3rd December 2016
Persistent SSH Keys with ESXi 6 — 30th November 2016
Configuring VMware ESXi 6 on Hetzner — 28th November 2016
Resize all Safari windows with AppleScript — 30th May 2016
Rails: Importing Local Data Dumps — 11th April 2016
Docker via Homebrew — 17th January 2016

2015

Mirroring Bazaar Repositories with Git — 21st July 2015
Terraform: AWS VPC with Private and Public Subnets — 8th July 2015
Installing Jenkins on OS X Yosemite — 7th July 2015
Providing Internal DNS with OS X Server — 6th July 2015
Fixing Problems with OS X Yosemite Server — 6th July 2015
Static Sites with Rack and Sass — 14th April 2015
Setting up Transparent Proxying VMs for mitmproxy — 28th March 2015
Conditionally Chaining ActiveRecord Queries — 11th March 2015

2014

Using Postmark with Sinatra — 15th December 2014
Structuring Sinatra Applications — 29th November 2014
Reserve: Caching with Expiring Keys and Redis — 12th October 2014
Site v4 — 20th August 2014
Custom Pandoc Options with Hakyll 4 — 20th August 2014
Debugging SenTestingKit to XCTest Linker Errors in Upgraded Xcode Projects — 18th August 2014
Ruby Subprocesses with stdout and stderr Streams — 8th January 2014
Annual Review 2013 — 7th January 2014

2013

Switching Season Report, 2013 Edition — 28th August 2013
Alfred Workflow: Paste Cleanly — 27th August 2013
Mocking Web Requests with VCR and MiniTest — 15th August 2013
Young Rewired State 2013 — 13th August 2013
Tweetbot Mute Filters — 13th August 2013
The Market for Used Mac minis — 12th August 2013
iOS 7: Watershed Moment — 12th August 2013
moviesapi: A Simple API for UK Cinema Listings — 8th August 2013
Automated Backups with backup and Rsync.net — 2nd August 2013
Debian/Ubuntu: Dynamic MOTD — 1st August 2013
7 Agile Best Practices that You Don't Need to Follow — 7th July 2013
Multiple Displays (and OpenGL) — 6th July 2013
What's the mobile app market up to, then? — 6th July 2013
How Stripe Buids Software: Interview with Greg Brockman — 6th July 2013
The Makers of Things — 5th July 2013
Experiments with Android, a IOIO board and Heart Rate Monitoring — 6th June 2013
Side Projects — 4th June 2013
Wired writes something sensible about the Internet of Things — 21st May 2013
You should write about yourself more — 21st May 2013
George Zarkadakis: Love and artificial intelligence — 21st May 2013
The downsides of live music — 21st May 2013
The Default Narative — 21st May 2013
SparkFun: How to Build a Building — 7th May 2013
The Way of the Megapode — 6th May 2013
Space Apps Challenge 2013 — 6th May 2013
Maker Faire 2013 — 6th May 2013
Building the Bomber Cam with 3D Printing and Scraps — 6th May 2013
Paul Miller on his return to the Internet — 2nd May 2013
Final Year Project is Over — 30th April 2013
Are we approaching a new AI winter? — 8th April 2013
Expectations — 5th April 2013
Test Environments with Vagrant and Chef — 4th April 2013
On the Long Journey to Production — 2nd April 2013
On the Future of Humanity — 2nd April 2013
Updates of March — 31st March 2013
Beer Selection — 30th March 2013
Outputting Matplotlib Plots for the Web — 28th March 2013
Drawing and Animating Shapes with Matplotlib — 27th March 2013
Digpen VI — 24th March 2013

2012

Blog Updates — 17th October 2012
NSConf Mini: Developers vs. Designers — 20th September 2012
dConstruct 2012 — 8th September 2012
Young Rewired State 2012 — 13th August 2012
Finishing at Rokk Media — 4th August 2012
Stuff I'm Working On & Learning — 24th June 2012
Bats, Hacks & Fieldwork — 29th May 2012
NASA Space Apps Challenge & Predict the Sky — 6th May 2012
ORGCon 2012 — 29th March 2012
Git Workshop — 12th March 2012
Review: Hacking and Securing iOS Applications by Jonathan Zdziarski — 26th February 2012
Mobile Security: I Don't Even Know Where to Begin — 13th February 2012
Brussels & FOSDEM 2012 — 12th February 2012
PAM for OmniAuth: omniauth-pam — 15th January 2012
Configuring Apache & PHP on Lion — 10th January 2012
Christmas Books — 6th January 2012

2011

Postgres on Lion — 28th November 2011
Drawing Primitives with Quartz — 26th November 2011
The Social Graph & Thoughts on Identity — 9th November 2011
Introducing UrbanScraper, and an Alfred Extension — 28th October 2011
Jacks: A place to start web projects — 22nd October 2011
Configuring Gitosis on Debian — 21st September 2011
I forked QuickDialog — 19th September 2011
Where's Next? 1.0.1 Release — 18th August 2011
Where's Next? Now In the App Store. — 12th August 2011
Starting at Rokk Media — 26th July 2011
Thoughts on the UoP Intellectual Property Agreement — 13th June 2011
Digital Peninsula Unconference III, Falmouth — 12th June 2011
Digital Peninsula Unconference II, Exeter — 15th May 2011
Building Custom Android ListViews — 11th May 2011
Review: Arduino Cookbook by Michael Margolis — 22nd March 2011
The Digital Peninsula's First Web Unconference — 7th March 2011
Using ruby-oci8 on Ubuntu/Debian — 2nd March 2011
TermiSoc Hack Weekend 2011 — 8th February 2011
An Ultra-simple Guide to Reading XML in Java, using SAX — 6th February 2011

2010

ProgComp: A Programming Competitions Blog — 26th December 2010
BCS Lecture Series: Physical Security in IT — 10th November 2010
BCS Lecture Series: Apple (The Birth of a Third Platform) — 29th September 2010
On Long Way Down — 17th September 2010
CSS3 Bundle — 10th July 2010
New Project — 30th May 2010
SQLite, ADO.NET & CSharp — 14th April 2010
Fixing Missing Gem Problems on OS X — 26th February 2010
Thoughts on the iPad — 27th January 2010

2009

Ideas and University — 3rd November 2009
Jekyll and GitHub — 5th October 2009
SSH Public Key Screencast Notes — 18th September 2009
New MacBook Pro — 12th September 2009
Public Key Auth Screencast — 11th September 2009
Configuring Sudo on Debian — 26th June 2009
Configuring an SSH banner on Debian — 24th June 2009
Introduction to SQLite 2 with PHP 5 — 18th May 2009
Installing Ubuntu 9.04 on an SD card — 8th May 2009
Using 'ab', ApacheBench to test Web Server Performance — 5th April 2009
DNS Testing Tools — 25th February 2009

2008

Converting a sparseimage to a dmg — 1st November 2008
Setting Up lm-sensors on Debian Etch — 24th June 2008