Fixing a Docker problem on Gentoo

I had a problem today where Docker would not start up. Running dockerd directly in the console shows...

Spam emails you get if you post something to Hacker News

A few days ago I posted githubv6 and also posted it to Hacker News, where it didn't get any traction...

IPv6 for GitHub

Every time Hacker News discusses IPv6 someone mentions that GitHub is commonly cited as one of the l...

Fixing a problem with email source IP addresses

I recently encountered a problem sending email to a domain that uses Google mail. Thankfully I got a...

Tillitis TKey - first look

I got my hands on a Tillitis TKey, an open-source open-hardware security token, to experiment with....

DN42 network upgrade

Since last Black Friday I've had a lot more cheap VPSes in odd locations under my control for plann...

Why do we need MAC addresses?

Everyone who's ever looked into computer networks in detail has asked, at some point in their life,...

Relicensing

From about 2012-2015 I made a whole bunch of Minecraft mods (which I'm now calling "series 1") and ...

Dynamic websites are easy, and you can make one too

In the last few years there's been a movement back towards static HTML sites, as a reaction to the ...

Deploying Apache ZooKeeper

Something that consistently comes up in my imaginary yak shaving is distributed systems, and distri...

To www or not to www?

Via indieweb I found there is (or was) a no www. movement.

This is wrong. It's true that a domain ...

Deadline 2024

I attended the Deadline demoparty for the second time.

My entries

S_Lon...

Overview of DNSSEC

I recently set up basic DNS with DNSSEC on DN42 and it shocked me how all DNSSEC tutorials - and to...

Bornhack retrospective (including shader jam)

At Bornhack 2024 I intentionally ran a shader jam, accidentally got involved in Pixelflut, and did ...

Blog is the wrong abstraction (for me)

In January I thought I wanted the start page of my web presence to display some kind of chronologic...