Some Things I Have Learnt

2026

26 Sep Emacs 31 on Debian Sid/Wayland
23 Sep HP MicroServer Gen8 iLO and headless management
22 Sep Special-Casing Added Files With diff-hl-mode
21 Sep Run Commands At Exact Git Refs
20 Sep Trying To Make A Binary Cask With Homebrew
8 Feb Very Partial Git Commits
5 Feb I just want to mirror 10GB
31 Jan Artisanal Filesystem Hacking With systemd
12 Jan Zola Asset Integrity
2 Jan Git Spelunking

2025

1 Dec Java In The Browser In The Year 2025
30 Nov ZFS micro incompatibilities
27 Nov Automounting ZFS encrypted filesystems
26 Nov git-lfs vs forgejo
24 Nov Re-pushing to git lfs
22 Nov Really default nginx vhost
21 Nov Zola publishing to Garage from Forgejo
20 Nov Mikrotik ssh keys
18 Nov Secure bootin'
17 Nov Testing NICs on the same machine
16 Nov Forgejo sqlite to postgres
15 Nov I guess I don't understand terminfo
13 Nov Step CA is quite weird
15 Oct socat to the rescue
20 Aug Listing tags on GitHub Container Registry aka GHCR
12 Aug Overwriting List Variables In Systemd Dropin Files
11 Aug Initramfs debugging
5 Aug fatal: CRLF would be replaced by LF in somefile.txt
9 Jun Installing uv with ansible
6 Jun servfail from resolvers, all resolvers
4 Jun Intel AMT - the good parts
31 May install aider and playwright with uv
25 May Emacs mode setting via comments
23 May uv remains very cool
22 May machinectl to switch users
21 May Ventoy is also quite great
19 May fluxcd and forgejo
7 May Delegating Tailscale dns to Tailscale using Unbound
6 May Validating generated config files in Ansible
5 May Ansible, m1, libssh
3 May git-lfs is a weird one
2 May uv is really really really good part 1
1 May Moving to Zola
30 Apr Add a file to the Ansible Vault
25 Jan systemd IP restrictions really do restrict

2024

2023

19 Dec "Error retrieving icon"
1 Dec The rust compiler is just lovely
16 Nov healthchecks.io and Home Assistant
12 Nov Git games
11 Nov Git merge conflict handling
4 Nov Internal archiving in Org Mode
29 Oct Some random notes on using nix
10 Oct Postgres change tracking
9 Oct Go semantics can be fiddly
8 Sep Make YouTube videos full-window in Safari
5 Sep The Old Web still exists, a bit
26 Aug Emacs dreams dashed
23 Aug A whole emacs minor mode
22 Aug new hugo post in emacs
21 Aug Soft wrapping text buffers
17 Aug Go to git root
3 Aug zigbee2mqtt doesn't validate the config file very well
28 Jul Checking if a command exists in $PATH
26 Jul Let someone else worry about yer secrets
22 Jul Watch GitHub actions and terminals can link now
21 Jul us-east-1 is special, part 9000
20 Jul Cloudformation is a pain
17 Jul Shell alias evaluation
13 Jul irssi inside tmux inside systemd
5 Jul YAML strikes again
4 Jul Running GitHub Actions locally
22 Jun Platform-specific shell config
21 Jun Python Progress
20 Jun Hugo Archetype Date Is Not a Date
19 Jun Updating NPM packages
18 Jun Combining a hugo theme git repo into a hugo project
9 May Diffing in go tests
5 May ib_tool not found
2 May Shelly to Tasmota to ESPHome
25 Mar delta is nice
18 Mar golangci-lint complexity
16 Mar clang: 'stdio.h' file not found

2011

17 May nginx plus thttpd CGI backend