I got tired of having to look up how to list all fail2ban bans
It's very strange that there is no simple way to look up all the IPs that are banned in all jails of `fail2ban`.
The Ongoing Struggle
I'll get there eventually
Latest posts
Communication: must do better
A nearly catastrophic incident of professional miscommunication leaves me reeling
Limitations of UK split ticketing
How split ticketing tripped me up
Rusty Fizz buzz with some Divan
A Rust video by Andy Balaam inspires me to look into benchmarking with Divan
Database backups, dump files and restic
Some notes on converting my database backups away from intermediary dump files
Rethinking my backups
Rethinking how I do my backups
I recommend avoiding the need to have panretinal photocoagulation (PRP) laser treatment
I had panretinal photocoagulation (PRP) laser treatment, and it was quite unpleasant
Check yo PTRs
After being irritated that I kept forgetting to set sensible reverse DNS I wrote a thing to remind me to do so
Protecting URIs from Tor nodes with the Apache HTTP Server
How to block requests from Tor nodes to certain URIs with the Apache HTTP Server
Generating a link-local address from a MAC address in Perl
A code snippet for generating an IPv6 link-local address from a MAC address
Daniel Kitson – Collaborator (work in progress)
Some thoughts on Daniel Kitson's comedy show Collaborator, which Jenny and I went to see last night (no spoilers)
Including remote data in a MediaWiki article
A few months ago I needed to include some data — that was generated and held remotely — into a MediaWiki article. Here's the solution I chose
Thoughts on commenting facilities for this site
This site, being a static one, presents some challenges with regard to accepting comments from its readers. There's also a bunch of comments that already exist on the legacy site. I have some thoughts about what I should do about this
Mass redirects with Apache RewriteMaps
Part of this blog migration demands a lot of Apache redirects, made a bit easier by RewriteMap