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Docker Images Output

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:30:00 +0000

The Output of docker images has changed. Here’s how to get it back.

Logging and Debug output prefixes

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:33:00 +0000

When I’m generating output from a script or process I typically use a standard set of prefixes to aid in displaying information about whats occuring.

Delaying Forgejo mirror updates

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:03:00 +0000

Mirroring a large number of repositories in Forgejo triggered many 429 errors from the source preventing updates.

No Hello

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:33:00 +0000

Don’t Just say Hello
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I’ve had a few messages at ${WORK} lately which simply start with a: “Hello” followed by nothing. Sometimes there’s an ask of how a thing, typically a weekend, was.

Referral Codes

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 00:00:01 +0000

Here are some referral codes and links you could use to get a reward when you sign up for a service

HDD Drive Security - When it went wrong

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 15:01:00 +0000

When I’ve finished using a hard disk for a customer project I’ll erase the data on it so the drive can be reused without the customers data getting exposed. A simple reformat of the disk would cover most scenarios but there’s a chance data can still be recovered after this so I need to be sure its not recoverable. The Secure erase feature of the disk would be perfect for this, or so I thought.

Wordpress: Going static

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Unfortunately for various reasons some of the websites I host no longer have their humans on hand to maintain them and update their content etc

Hugo

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:35:49 +0000

For various reasons I’ve decided to spin up this site using hugo the static site generator.

Linux Firewall: Blocking a lot with a little

Fri, 30 Aug 2024 17:00:00 +0000

I have a need to block a large list of ever changing IP addresses from servers and systems I operate.

Packer: Using an image family from another project

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 21:45:23 +0000

Following on from my previous post: Packer: Building images on Google Cloud You should now be able to build compute images on GCP and you may have used this to build a pre-configured image you can effortlessly deploy again and again without having to wait to install software.

Google Cloud: IAM Conditions

Mon, 15 Mar 2021 23:32:55 +0000

We can use IAM to control who has access to what within our project and who can do what to things like storage buckets, but what if we wanted to restrict when someone could do something or to what object in a bucket. That’s where IAM Conditions come in to play.

Terraform: Getting started with GCP

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 22:34:35 +0000

What’s Terraform?
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Terraform is a tool created by Hashicorp which allows us to describe our infrastructure in easily readable code. This code can also be stored in our source code management system to allow us to track changes to our infrastructure over time.

Packer: Building images on Google Cloud

Tue, 08 Sep 2020 00:29:57 +0000

Installing the software we need to run our website or tools, can take some time to complete. This isn’t ideal when our deployments are time sensitive, like when we need to scale up the web server pool to handle that sudden interest in your latest line of fancy socks.

SSH: Multiplexing

Sat, 11 Jan 2020 22:37:22 +0000

What is it?
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Multiplexing, sometimes referred to as muxing, is a way of making use of one connection for a number of signals. The internet connection you’re reading this on may have been multiplexed at some stage along its physical route to your building or local communications tower and can used to reduce the overall cost of having to lay multiple cables to endpoints.

SSH: Tunneling to remote servers

Tue, 24 Dec 2019 16:59:32 +0000

When creating our infrastructure, either in the cloud or on prem, we ~~often~~ usually need a way to connect to machines running behind the scenes to do things, such as upgrades or fixing problems.