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  1. Flushing the DNS toilet twice
    Jun 1, 2026 · original
    On MacOS clearing the DNS cache with dscacheutil -flushcache && killall -HUP mDNSResponder is annoying. Very annoying. Because of that fucking sudo that you need to add everytime you want to run it. Want to get rid of it? Add the commands to your sudoders file. Yup, this exists on MacOS. Here s the Ansible I use to make DNS flushing experience just that little bit more delightful: - name : Allow admin users to run DNS flush commands without password become : true community.general.sudoers : name : flush-dns group : admin commands : - /usr/bin/dscacheutil -flushcache - /usr/bin/killall -HUP mDNSResponder nopassword : true state : present This resides in my bootstrap-macos-server role . But that s not all. Becuase if you re using Tailscale and have private subdomains tied to Tailscale nodes then you have to go one step extra. Tailscale maintains its own DNS resolver at 100.100.100.100 with
  2. Right now
    Sep 23, 2025 · original
    WHEN WILL WINTER END? Currently reading: The Regicide Report.
  3. Water load of trouble
    Aug 25, 2025 · original
    While water is wonderful I really don t want it leaking into my apartment because of faulty pipes and taps. Even more so I don t want it secretly leaking out of my apartment into someone elses. This is what we call A Fucking Disaster. That s why I ve been integrating leak sensors wherever I fear water leaking. Like everything else I m installing, these are wired devices: why not when I have all the walls and ceilings open? These are dirt simple devices, powered by 12V/24V sent over two of four wires. A unit has two metal prongs on its underside. As soon as those prongs are bridged by water, a connection is made and the unit closes a digital logic circuit in the other pair of wires. You need something smart to connect them to. Given that I will have one of the Kincony ESP32 boards at the heart of my house, this isn t a problem. Where These are one of those areas where my home automation w
  4. Planning Security
    Jun 20, 2025 · original
    Are you secure? Are your loved ones secure? Is your home secure? Are your loved ones secure at home? Is your dog secure? Are your accumulated mounds of jewellery secure? Are you secure in the knowledge that things are secure? Are you secure in yourself? Have you secured your potential? These are all questions that we must ask. I ve never done home security before. Never had an alarm or sensors or anything technological like that. I did have a Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross called Daisy who used to go mental if someone parked in front of my old UK house. But given that she d roll over for anyone who actually entered the property, she was of little security use. Given that I m currently lacking a sappy Bull Terrier, what security options do I have in my new apartment revamp? The normal path Traditionally you d have a commercial security system in a property which you want to protect from
  5. Planning Smart Lighting
    Jun 1, 2025 · original
    Lighting. It s great. It lets you use your eyes, read cereal packets, and hunt for lost pennies. But, even better, it s totes easy to automate. Which is why a smart light bulb is the first thing any neophyte home automator reaches for. But despite the inherent snazzy socks potential, lighting turned out to be the most aggravating aspect of renovating my apartment . Of course, I intend to follow my my own home automation principles , building a smart apartment up via progressive enhancement. But there are so many choices out there for smart lighting that I almost chucked in the principles before I began. If you read about smart lighting in a from-scratch-everything-new home you ll get immediately dragged into the world of Building Management Systems and adjacent tech. You obviously need to understand the DALI lighting protocol! KNX is the only and best way of controlling lighting! Lutron
  6. Some Principles for Home Automation
    Apr 23, 2025 · original
    This complete apartment renovation isn t my first foray into home automation - I ve had my rental place automated for years, and it s given me a lot of insights into how things work in the real world. I m using a mishmash of wi-fi, Zigbee and ESPhome gadgets. This is understandable - landlords hate you smashing open walls to rewire things - but these wireless technologies are kinda rubbish. I seem to be changing batteries on Zigbee devices every day, and until I complete that task, the device in question is offline. Devices in hard-to-reach areas just don t get dealt with. Quite often the wireless spectrum in our neighbourhood gets flooded by random data 1 and both wi-fi and Zigbee networks drop out for minutes at a time. My laptop is liable to lose wi-fi signal if I sit at the wrong part of my desk. And then there s relying too much on Home Assistant itself. The software itself is hella
  7. New Apartment, New Smarts
    Apr 9, 2025 · original
    In 2023 my partner and I were lucky enough to buy an apartment in Berlin. I say lucky. What I mean is that it was a deeply adult decision that I m grateful we both could make. But my god, it was financially and emotionally stressful. Nonetheless, we now have a 90m2 apartment in a neighbourhood that was, if not quite fashionable, was certainly nice. Chekov s Lightbulb Post-puchase we made some modification plans. This meant the swapping of the bathroom and kitchen - the apartment having a tiny kitchen and a huge bathroom, the layouts of which really didn t work for us. After receiving the keys I went to our new home with the intention of performing some light prep work. Cleaning up, removing any junk left behind, fitting lights, etc. I was there by myself fitting a wall socket onto one of the dangling electrical connections when I discovered something interesting: this apartment came with
  8. An ode to replacing a disk in a ZFS pool
    Feb 11, 2025 · original
    A disk in my ZFS pool has just started to die - and, quite annoyingly, not in a consistent way . This sombre news means that I need to replace a drive in my zpool. gulp, etc First things first - what drive is dying? If things are bad enough zpool status will be complaining about which drive is experiencing errors. But hopefully it won t have got to that stage, and your smartmontools will have picked up an increase in drive errors early on. (hahaha it turned out that my smartmontools setup wasn t working and that s why it took ZFS freaking out for me to be alerted - learn from my lesson kids !) Thankfully I have my ZFS pool set to use /dev/disk/by-id identifiers, rather than the rather arbitary (and subject to change) /dev/sda approach. Present me is thankful to past me for doing this, as I don t have to try and map those /dev/sda style identifiers to a drive model and serial number. Toug
  9. Blog Questions Challenge, aka chain letters for nerds
    Feb 6, 2025 · original
    There s a wee trend going around called Blog Questions Challenge . You answer a bunch of pre-defined questions on your blog, and then tag some more people to do the same. This is near enough to the concept of a chain letter to make me flip the proverbial bird and storm out. However, after a refreshing cup of tea, and a therapeutic smashing of small tchotchkes, I came to see the value in it. Therefore thank you to Remy for tagging me on Mastodon and in his own post on this very theme . Why did you start blogging in the first place? I m not sure if what I do can be called blogging , as that implies some kind of commitment and regular cadence. But random writing on the WWW began for me back in the 90s on Geocities. As a young queer trapped in Northern England this new web thing allowed me to express the new and quite exciting feelings that I had, and to experiment with showing that off to t
  10. Adding schema.org to a Hugo site
    Jan 23, 2025 · original
    I ve added schema.org data to each page of this site. Just to annoy the Indieweb folks. script type = "application/ld+json" { "@context" : "https://schema.org" , "@type" : "BlogPosting" , {{ with $featured - }} "image" : {{ $featured . Permalink }}}, {{ end }} "url" : {{ . Permalink }}, "dateCreated" : "{{ .PublishDate.Format " 2006 - 01 - 02 " }}" , "datePublished" : "{{ .PublishDate.Format " 2006 - 01 - 02 " }}" , "dateModified" : "{{ .Page.Lastmod.Format " 2006 - 01 - 02 " }}" , "copyrightYear" : "{{ .PublishDate.Format " 2006 " }}" , "copyrightHolder" : "Charlie O'Hara" , "wordCount" : "{{ .WordCount }}" , "inLanguage" : "en-US" , "isFamilyFriendly" : "false" , "headline" : "{{ .Title }}" , {{ with . Params . subtitle }} "alternativeHeadline" : "{{ . }}" , {{ end }} "articleBody" : {{ . Content | htmlUnescape | plainify }}, "author" : { "@type" : "Person" , "name" : "Charlie O'Hara"
  11. Internet-Week Clock | Hackaday.io
    Jan 23, 2025 · original
    This project to remind you what day of the week you exist in is ridiculous and I love it.
  12. 1UP - GRAFFITI OLYMPICS - DRONE VIDEO ATHENS - YouTube
    Jan 22, 2025 · original
    ❤️ the 1UP and Berlin Kidz crews. This vid shows a tag bombing between the two groups. Drone footage catches everything in realtime.
  13. Piloerection
    Jan 19, 2025 · original
    Death Metal
  14. Dark Mode
    Jan 12, 2025 · original
    I ve been putting off enabling dark mode on my site for weeks. Then I actually went to do it and remembered that it s actually really easy. Doh, etc. @media (prefers-color-scheme : dark) { --text-color : #ffffff ; --canvas-color : #161616 ; --text-color-subtle : #cdcdcd ; }
  15. Making Ollama on MacOS accessible to Home Assistant
    Jan 9, 2025 · original
    It s easy to setup the Home Assistant Ollama integration . But before you do that you need to make your Ollama installation accessible to external devices. To do this you need to ensure the Ollama service is bound to 0.0.0.0 . launchctl setenv OLLAMA_HOST "0.0.0.0" and then restart Ollama with brew services restart ollama Source Ollama FAQ
  16. pre-commit
    Jan 4, 2025 · original
    A very useful utility that allows you to define pre-commit git hooks via a simple Yaml file. I now use it on this site to clean up the Mardown files and remove Exif data from images.
  17. Site building
    Jan 4, 2025 · original
    Spent the last Saturday of my vacation fixing the build time on my site. It was originally taking over 19 minutes due to it building all of the Opengraph images from scratch each time, and doing some extensive Exif scrubbing. Now it s down to 1m10s via the judicious use of caching and by moving the exif scrubbing to the original files as part of a pre-commit hook. All this running on my own Gitea infra on my apartment s little server.
  18. Dummy title
    Jan 3, 2025 · original
    This is just a dummy to test grouping by month and day.
  19. Why Computer Programmers Should Stop Calling Themselves Engineers - The Atlantic
    Jan 3, 2025 · original
    Engineers bear a burden to the public, and their specific expertise emanates from that responsibility. ❤️ - and goes rather nicely with what I said about software engineering .
  20. Engineering job titles
    Jan 3, 2025 · original
    Someone should only dare to use the term Engineer in their job title if they can analyse, design, test and build systems within an understood set of constraints, including, but not limited to, accessibility, safety, and cost. The common definition of engineering as doing something technical can fuck right off.

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