An engineer eating his own tail
On the evening of September 3, 2025, there was suddenly a strong and remarkably unpleasant flat metallic odour in our master bedroom and ensuite. We opened all the doors and windows and got the fan on, and eventually it went Continue reading
On December 14, 2024 three weeks after I published the last exciting installment in this series of posts our new Redflow ZCell battery, which replaced the original one which had developed a leak in the electrode stack, itself Continue reading
My wife and I were with Optus for our mobile phone service since approximately the dawn of time, but recently decided to switch to another provider. We d become less happy with Optus over the last few years after a data Continue reading
Our 5.94kW solar array with Redflow ZCell battery and Victron Energy inverter/charger system is now slightly over three years old, which means it s time to review its third year of operation. There are several previous posts in this series: If Continue reading
It s time for a review of the second year of operation of our Redflow ZCell battery and Victron Energy inverter/charger system. To understand what follows it will help to read the earlier posts in this series: In case ~12,000 words Continue reading
Last week I had occasion to test deploying ceph-csi on a k3s cluster, so that Kubernetes workloads could access block storage provided by an external Ceph cluster. I went with the upstream Ceph documentation, because assuming everything worked it d then Continue reading
In my last post, I wrote about how I taught sesdev (originally a tool for deploying Ceph clusters on virtual machines) to deploy k3s, because I wanted a little sandbox in which I could break learn more about Kubernetes. It s Continue reading
We that is to say the storage team at SUSE have a tool we ve been using for the past few years to help with development and testing of Ceph on SUSE Linux. It s called sesdev because it was Continue reading
Back in 2012, I received a box of eight hundred openSUSE 12.1 promo DVDs, which I then set out to distribute to local Linux users groups, tech conferences, other SUSE crew in Australia, and so forth. I didn t manage to Continue reading
It s been a little over a year since our Redflow ZCell battery and Victron Energy inverter/charger kit were installed on our existing 5.94kW solar array. Now that we re past the Southern Hemisphere spring equinox it seems like an opportune time Continue reading