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February 15, 2025For those who’re just joining us, I’ve dusted off a two-decade-old project idea and have actually started working on it. There’s a working prototype which I’m not going to link in this post, because this text will likely be around long after it’s been and gone, either shelved for another 20 years or thrown online in some kind of working form. [...]
February 9, 2025In April 2005, I registered a domain name. I had a plan, and it was an ambitious one. I had read an O’Reilly book on XML (cover-to-cover) a couple of years beforehand, and it did something to my brain and I thought I could see through time. Weblogs were ascending fast, the web was exciting, … [Read more …] [...]

Chinwag Posts

Over a year ago I put a pair of cheap 1TB NVMe SSDs into each of the three servers in my little cluster, primarily to act as caches to improve storage performance.

They cost three times as much now, so I've pulled them out of the live setup because if any fail I'm not going to replace them at current prices and I'd need to reconfigure the whole thing at that point anyway.

I can use these much better as a single disk array I think, and keep a couple on the shelf as spares. Maybe that'll keep things online until either prices come down or we revert to a hunter-gatherer civilization.

Six devices that have large heat sinks on them and could be anything really, but they're SSD storage, trust me.

In my kitchen, once again proving via practical experimentation that cooking a meal for only one single human being is something I am incapable of.

Spent far too long looking through tiny on-screen menus on my audio recorder trying to find out how to turn on phantom power for the inputs before realising there was a physical switch for it on the side.

Technology has broken me.