Ciaran's thoughts, musings and adventures
One of my occasional hobbies is restoring vintage electronics, mostly computers. What I do with them after I ve mended them all completely depends. If it s interesting to me and I ve got the space, I will keep it. Otherwise, I will usually sell them or gift them to friends who would enjoy some of these bits [ ]
Where s the engine, Ciaran? Is it in the car yet?! I hear you ask. I suppose I ought to stop driving it about and give you the long-winded answer, as that s probably what you re here to read! It s in the car. It s brutal. A couple of tweaks need to be made before I send it [ ]
On the last installment, I left you hanging with the next visit the machinist. I took my poorly crank case halves to Jonathan at Stanwood Engineering. I took the recommendation from Duncan at Westwood Liners, as he had his hillclimb Cayman 3.9 competition engine built there. Immediately, I felt like I was in good [ ]
Let s get the bad news out of the way first. My engine had previously been rebuilt by a reputable firm to solve the common bore scoring issue seen by a small proportion of 3.8 litre M97.01 engines. Fast forward a few years, and I start getting exhaust gases into the coolant expansion tank. Nothing really [ ]
How the mighty have fallen. Once upon a time, I was an expert and wizard at hosting things on the internet. Now I m back to the humble beginnings of accidentally deleting the production database for my personal blog. Well sort of, I am just too lazy to restore a backup, which brings me to the [ ]
Sometimes removing the little sanity you have to culture a bigger organisational change and engineering paradigm is worth it When I joined $COMPANY as a principal DevOps architect, I was shown around a couple of server cabinets. My boss pointed to these physical things called servers. That s an AMQP server. That s a Zabbix server. That s [ ]