Day 24 of NaPoWriMo. My poem A riddle. Riddle I wear a shining, scorching crown That causes me to sweat And if I sweat just long enough I shrink down to my death Answer: Candle Featured poem A ballad by Emily Dickinson. Beclouded by Emily Dickinson The sky is low, the clouds are mean, A travelling flake of snow...

I received a new laptop at work the other day. So begins the cycle again of having to tweak every little thing to the way I like it. I’m a tinkerer and I love to play around in settings and customization screens. Heck, I’ll even hop in regedit willingly to get the specific behaviour I want. But I never properly...

I ran into a weird problem where I couldn’t access the OPNsense web UI using an OPT1 interface. The fix is easy, but it can be very confusing and it’s all caused by an unintuitive default. tl;dr If you can’t access the web UI via an OPT1 interface, try disabling the “reply-to” feature:...

It is a cold Anzac day in Melbourne, and I am brooding. I've followed through on my commitment to interview in the tech industry without relying entirely on in-network referrals as I normally do (for a good reason - my network consists largely of the most competent people at mediocre companies!). It is dystopian out...

Common journalctl options Long option Short option What the option does --catalog -x Show log lines with additional help or suggestions where available --disk-usage Show size of the archived and active journals --follow -f Track changes, like tail -f --lines= -n Show X number of lines (most recent) --output= -o...

Last week I ran a fun exercise: I wanted to take a week off work and build out The Cascade, the almost-weekly-ish newsletter that I’ve written about front-end development and CSS, and turn it into a full blow standalone honest-to-goodness blog. I gave myself 2 days for the design, 2 days for development, and 2 days...