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Results of the 2024 UK election

I've been documenting the disparities between the number of seats won and the...

s3fs

For essentially unlimited backup space, Amazon S3 is fast and cheap. To store...

Pronunciation of Linux

When Linux was newer (and I guess not as popular), I would often hear people ...

Identifiers

If we assume that there are 8.5 billion people in the world, then what could ...

Posted on 2024-06-22 under musings

Wifi doesn't mean Internet

In a case of what might be "old man yells at clouds", I feel I need to mentio...

That Mitchell and Webb Sound

Mitchell and Webb have a sketch that covers every situation. But sometimes, I...

Jurassic Park

It's hard to overstate how amazing Jurassic Park was when it came out. In th...

Updating to Tomcat 11, Spring Boot 3.1 and Java 17

I'm updating some projects to Tomcat 11, Spring Boot 3.1 and Java 17. Below a...

Debian upgrades

I recently upgrade a couple of machines from Debian Stretch to Debian Bookwor...

Testing your software-smoke alarm

I'm a fan of software tests that test the actual functionality of the softwar...

Posted on 2024-01-26 under