Linux, PHP, geeky stuff ... boring man.
So since starting with copilot a few months ago, I eventually decided to explore Claude code and I m starting to think I m now a servant to the AI overlords. My initial impressions were good I definitely prefer the UI of going through a terminal rather than a browser (although, if only copy+paste worked the Continue reading "I am a servant to AI"
I ve been using the github copilots agent a bit for work and personal stuff. Some random findings below Sometimes it s quite useful in saving me a load of time in creating boiler plate code. It seems to cope quite well either with creating a new thing that s relatively easy to describe or doing a Continue reading "github copilot agent dabbling"
With my ignorant hat on, I m kind of surprised The Grid would know about something happening tomorrow at 8am but what would I know. Now if only Octopus would start to pay me for what I m exporting Hey .Heads up: we’ll be exporting from your battery tomorrow xxxx-xx-xx from 08:00 to 09:00 to help Continue reading "Axle Energy Grid event tomorrow "
I ve wanted to get solar panels etc on our house for ages; but the last house was shaded too much, and for this one other things felt like they needed doing first. Since then batteries have become more commonplace, and useful for load shifting. Eventually at the start of this year I started looking again Continue reading "The solar journey begins"
Ramblings about LLM usage in opensource + commercial projects and the future
tailscale account switching
a brief history of a minor hosting environment
Checking out headscale (tailscale backend) for a DIY VPN
I have a legacy virtual machine scale set which was not created with Encryption at Host and with Trusted Launch. Firstly, you ll need to rebuild any VM image you have so it supports Trusted Launch. I use the Azure Compute Gallery (or whatever it s called nowadays) Thankfully, with the right az cli commands you can Continue reading "Azure moving a virtual machine scale set to have trusted launch…
Yesterday, I spent most of my day wondering what was wrong with my unbound configuration . as a TL;DR, if you re creating a new TLD (e.g. foo.lan) you may need to disable DNSSEC checks on it within unbound s config using the domain-insecure setting For history, we deploy unbound on servers to try and gloss over Continue reading "It s always DNS . (unbound / domain signing stuff)"