Recently I've had the opportunity to play with some new and existing technologies as a mechanism of both upskilling and trying something new. I decided to spend some of that time learning how to create a hidden service, and make my own blog available over the Tor network. Although this…
Extending on my previous post about creating a custom CA and using client certificates through Cloudflare, I wanted to write about how I integrated Keycloak with Nginx without OpenResty. As we had a handful of different websites and applications running on the server, I wanted to simplify everything with the…
Over the last week, I've been building a new server for some friends and I to host our own NextCloud instance. Part of this is to keep our technical eyes up-to-date and relevant, with the other being to reduce some of our reliance on Google and to own our own…
Whether I'm making new friends and industry relationships, or even just participating in casual conversation, I often get asked how someone with my educational background ended up in the technology sector. The simple answer is equal parts passion and procrastination with a sprinkling of subversion and a pinch of counter-culture.…
I learned about GitHub Actions when it was released last year, although didn't investigate further as I'd already configured my hobby project CI/CD pipelines using Travis CI to a satisfactory standard. While everything generally worked really well, I found myself running up against some obscure issue with Travis that…
I remember learning about the difference between sympathy and empathy in middle school. Sympathy: feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune. Empathy: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.Pretty damn simple to understand the difference when you read each of the above definitions, but…
As I have moved my blog platform over to Ghost, I've realised that there will be other parts of my technical ecosystem that will keep me busy tinkering. One such part of that is how to cache every page on this site (effectively) permanently whilst also allowing new posts and…
I find it's highly beneficial to do a personal reset every so often. While I can't speak for others, for me personal resets come in a number of different forms although usually over the course of at least a weekend. They take me out of my comfort zone and allow…
