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2,845 from 31 May 2004 to 3 Jul 2026
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Latest

July 2026

  1. Identity Crisis In The Age of AI

June 2026

  1. Bloke On A Trike

May 2026

  1. This Blog, Brought To You Through AI! (Well, Kinda)
  2. Did I Finally Solve My Audiobook Woes? Well, Maybe.

April 2026

  1. I Gave Up My 3D Printer
  2. Integrating Paperless-NGX with my own PDF Renamer

March 2026

  1. So I Started Playing With Claude Code
  2. Not Building My Own Thermostat — I Went With TadoX, Here’s My Impressions

February 2026

  1. Reflection On My School Days
  2. Will We Ever Get An European Payment Rail?

January 2026

  1. The Blog’s Most Clicked Articles in 2025
  2. Market Segmentation: EcoFlow Delta 3 Plus
  3. As For Why We Left London

December 2025

  1. Where Did Flameeyes Go?

February 2025

  1. Whirlpool AP330W: It’s A Trap
  2. Hardware Review: Ozlo Sleepbuds

January 2025

  1. From Furniture Websites To Sweet Home 3D
  2. So, Could We Get Open Source Washing Machines?

December 2024

  1. British Rental Property Management Agencies Are A Disease
  2. Defusing AGPL-3 With Batch Processing

November 2024

  1. Documents Management (Searching For Bigfoot, Again)

October 2024

  1. About IPv6 Traffic Volume

September 2024

  1. Stop Calling Them VPNs!
  2. COVID, Part 2: The Air Purifier Saga

August 2024

  1. Eircode: Perfect, Broken, Or In-Between?

July 2024

  1. IPv6 In Real Life: Network Access Controls
  2. Again On Transports: Car Culture, Motors, And Me

June 2024

  1. First Impressions Of A 3D Printer

May 2024

  1. 20 Years Of Blogging
  2. Free Software Cooperatives Redux
  3. Intentionally Permissive Licensing

April 2024

  1. On My Dislike For Advent Of Code
  2. Code Reviews In The Workplace

March 2024

  1. Free Idea: Smart Home and Water Softeners
  2. Service Announcement: Expect Stochastic Posts Drops

February 2024

  1. On The Nostalgia For Shovelware Magazines
  2. No, I Don’t Miss Google Reader

January 2024

  1. Hotel WiFi, VPNs, And Security
  2. The Right To Repair Is Not For You

December 2023

  1. LLM As A CASE Tool
  2. I Want My Tetris Fix
  3. Professionalism And The Software Industry

November 2023

  1. Example Code Should Be Exemplar (The Nathaniel’s Nudge)
  2. Windows 11: Dev Drive Within Storage Spaces
  3. Free Idea: dnf Prometheus Exporter

October 2023

  1. Smart Plugs Tricks: Air Fresheners and Washing Machines with Home Assistant
  2. Tidbit: Writing A PWA For Link Tagging
  3. NHS: The Good, The Bad, And The Blood Boiling
  4. Personal Infrastructure Update: WordPress on Docker

September 2023

  1. WordPress Kills The Blogger Star
  2. Remote Debugging With GDB; part 3: SWD

August 2023

  1. And Finally, FreeStyle Libre 2 Support
  2. USB Power Delivery For Hobby Projects
  3. Gone With The Wind: Donation Drive For Diabetes UK

July 2023

  1. Acrylic Lamps: Finally Working
  2. Diabetes and Transports (London Edition)

June 2023

  1. TrueNAS: Restricting SMB Share Visibility
  2. Migrations and Attention Budgets

May 2023

  1. Dell XPS 9360 and ChromeOS Flex
  2. La Settimana Enigmistica Digitale e la loro nuova app

April 2023

  1. IPv6 In Real Life
  2. Hardware Review: Onyx Boox Nova Air C

March 2023

  1. eBooks Are Still A Mess In 2023
  2. How I Learnt To Stop Worrying And Take The Debt

February 2023

  1. On Being An Opinionated Employee In (Big) Tech

December 2022

  1. Home Automation — An End Of The Year Special
  2. A View On Cashback And Rewards Programs
  3. A FreeStyle Libre Retrospective, Nearly Seven Years Later

November 2022

  1. So You Want A Local, Sustainable Software Business?
  2. A Lukewarm Take On Mastodon

October 2022

  1. On Rewriting And Programming Languages
  2. Inclusive Language, Inclusive Documentation

August 2022

  1. Old Posts, Still Relevant
  2. On Social Media And The Distributed Web

June 2022

  1. Financing, Credit, and Technical Debt
  2. Got COVID. It Sucks.
  3. Property Managers and Marketers: A GDPR Story

May 2022

  1. On Lotteries And Risky Investments
  2. Browser Fingerprinting in 2022
  3. Music, CDs, and Players in 2022
  4. Eight Years Later, unpaper-7.0.0 Is Released
  5. Chase UK, Security Features, And TfL

April 2022

  1. Talk Like A Systems Engineer: Yaks All The Way Down

March 2022

  1. This Friday: Flameeyes Hacking for Ukraine
  2. There’s A War In Ukraine
  3. Giving Google Analytics Another Try

February 2022

  1. I’MQTTing this project
  2. On The Role Of Distribution Maintainers
  3. Home Theatre Control!
  4. So You Want A New Web?

January 2022

  1. That Time My Manager Made Me Cry At My Desk (And Other Stories)
  2. Reverse Engineering an LG Aircon Control Panel — Thermostat Failure Modes
  3. Life Of A Core Maintainer: Chase, Blaze, Slumb, Restart
  4. Reverse Engineering an LG Aircon Control Panel — Tidying It Up

December 2021

  1. Energy Usage: It’s Not What You Think It Is
  2. Nest Thermostat E error TD007
  3. Reflecting On Free Software And Paychecks
  4. Water Softeners, But Why?

November 2021

  1. 2FA: TOTP Keys and Password Managers
  2. Production Untouched by Human Hands
  3. Passwordless Doesn’t Mean Troubleless
  4. Home Assistant Tales: The Bathroom Lights
  5. Kensington Pro Fit Ergo Wireless Keyboard: Not Good, Not Terrible

October 2021

  1. Four Years In London
  2. I Just Wanted To Update My Flashgun!
  3. Service Announcement: Now Hosted on Gandi
  4. UEFI Framebuffer, NVIDIA 1080Ti, a New Monitor, and a Blank Screen
  5. Reader Is Dead, But What About Writers?

September 2021

  1. No Post This Week, Because WordPress.com Is Broken
  2. Windows on Home Assistant
  3. Hardware Review: Fossil Smartwatch HR
  4. A Note About Burn Out

August 2021

  1. Flameeyes On A Break — Have A Parakeet
  2. Reverse Engineering an LG Aircon Control Panel — Fit It All Together

July 2021

  1. Burning Out From «Always Be Helpin’»
  2. If You Party, Think of The Non-Drinkers
  3. Reverse Engineering an LG Aircon Control Panel — Low-Speed Serial Issues
  4. Extending the Saleae Logic

June 2021

  1. Reverse Engineering an LG Aircon Control Panel — Buses and Cars
  2. Service Providers, Business Sustainability, And Society
  3. Reverse Engineering an LG Aircon Control Panel — Introduction
  4. Ten Years of IPv6, Maybe?
  5. Home Automation: Physical Contact

May 2021

  1. What’s Up With CircuitPython in 2021?
  2. Light Nerdery: Evolving Solutions At Homes
  3. What To Look For In A Glucometer
  4. Rose Tinted Glasses: On Old Computers and Programming

April 2021

  1. Blogging From An Onyx Boox Max Lumi
  2. Country You Go, Banking You Find
  3. Moving Notes #4: Fixing Up A Flat You Rent
  4. After The Streams — Conclusion From My Pawsome Players Experiment

March 2021

  1. Glucometer Review: GlucoMen Areo
  2. Testing is Like Onions: They Have Layers, And They Make You Cry
  3. Glucometer Notes: GlucoRx Q
  4. Service Announcement: Pawsome Players Streaming Week
  5. Senior Engineering: Give Them Time To Find Their Own Stretch
  6. Flashing ESPHome on White Label Smart Plugs

February 2021

  1. Kind Software
  2. My Take on What I Would Replace FSFE With
  3. Video: unpaper with Meson — pytesting our way out
  4. Progress Logging and Results Logging
  5. Moving Notes #3: Paperwork, Service Providers, Xenophobia

January 2021

  1. Video: unpaper with Meson — From DocBook to ReStructured Text
  2. unpaper: re-designing an interface
  3. NewsBlur Review
  4. Moving Notes #2: Sigh, Agents
  5. Software Defined Remote Control

December 2020

  1. Moving Notes #1: The Reasons
  2. I No Longer Support FSFE
  3. Senior Engineering: Open The Door, Move Away

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