How it started That damn fan noise. Getting frustrated with everything but my own ability to solve a problem one day, I focused on the droning of the fan in my desktop network switch. In…

By Henriok - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=96026688 In case you haven't heard in the last five minutes, Apple released their new macbooks based on Apple's own cpu, the M1. Here's a fine writeup as…

I setup NextDNS on a server. The idea was to test blocking all tracking when using a vpn. As far as the test, nextdns is quick and accurate. It's a nice system and works well. In…

The Discovery Say you're at work and stumble across a file system with 8 petabytes of log files. How do you start to analyze the data? TL;DR: There is no answer. But we walk through…

Of course, I had no idea my December 2019 visit to Malaysia and Singapore would be the last trip for a while. The quietness and consistency of these days at home pass mostly in blissful…