I'm having to repair my Wife's #Windows 10 PC, after the boot configuration data is apparently unreadable. I don't use Windows anymore, and I can see why; apparently I cannot just download a simple Windows 10 ISO recovery disk with a SHA-sum?

Ah, now I see the issue! - you were using AI, instead of your brain!

Very interesting 1st podcast episode for topical events in the UK right now - easy to listen to, subscribed. :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TkgbHGoOx4

There is something to be said that many apps eventually will grow enough features to probably invent their own DSL, and become Turing complete themselves!

I've just started working with #Cursor on remote projects over SSH - and I have to say the experience is very good. It feels very weird when I've got 20 years of muscle memory running [n]vim remotely!

Really enjoyed this story approach to talking about Tor - educating government about privacy etc: https://youtu.be/djM70O0SnsY?si=1aWwJD2nBn-Ud6Nb 2025-10-18 07:03:38

Wooo! BlueSky support working in Japella! :-D Yay!

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Delighted to announce that the #OliveTin helm chart is now marked as "official" on ArtifactHub! artifacthub.io/packages/hel... #automation #linux

I'm proud to release the first version of: StencilBox - a tool for generating static websites from YAML data, eg: homepage of links, sidebars of links, status pages, etc. #selfhosted #homelab #opensource #docker github.com/jamesread/St... .

I'm frantically trying to copy some TV and Films to the kid's tablets via SD card, just before we go away on holiday. You forget just how slow SD cards are... I think it's only a Class 10 - so 10MB/s - need to pick up some UHS-II cards for situations like this!

When looking at Currys (highstreet electrical retailer in the UK) for a **DisplayPort 1.4** cable that I need today, this was suggested at checkout... Not used one of those in 15, 20 years?!

Today I learned that JSON doesn't technically support ints and floats, only "numbers"... so it's up to the parser to determine how to parse it (Golang hence uses float64). Also, the "standard" is 16 pages of mostly whitespace, and is unironically ECMA standard number 404...

Another totally innocent Amazon order that is likely to confuse the Amazon warehouse packer person... Huel because I'm fed up with cooking, Funnels for cold brew coffee, and new rigger gloves because I tore up a pair at the weekend pulling weeds out of the garden.

Fascinating interview with Karen Hao; on politician AI understanding, as well as ethical and environmental concerns of the "scale up" approach. Just grabbed her "Empire of AI: inside the reckless race for total domination" audiobook. youtu.be/8enXRDlWguU?...

Been looking through the Bluesky OAuth2 requirements - it's wild. rfc7591 dynamic client registration, PAR, DPoP, Client metadata JWK- quite different from lots of other OAuth services I've worked with! Only familiar with PKCE. Excited to get it working though!

Still having lots of fun building Japella. It's still incredibly rough, but got a lot of the core systems implemented. It's free open source software.

My cooling fan needs a firmware update...

Having lots of fun hacking on #Japella, added API keys support, multiple language support, logins etc. Permissions, Settings Editor and Bluesky coming next! #coding #selfhosted

Quite a bit of progress on Japella over the last 24 hours :-) Added language support and rebuilt the nav. OAuth2 working fine for Mastodon and Twitter, but working on user accounts now. Still sandbox quality, but moving fast. #opensource #coding #selfhosted

Day 3 in a series of fixing #homelab hardware things I've been putting off for far too long: the new array from yesterday is built, properly cable routed, and all the old disks have been retired. Didn't have to use backups, yay!

Day 2 in a series of fixing #homelab hardware things I've been putting off for far too long. A 5 drive raid6 of 2Tb disks...11 years old... that is down to 3 drives. I bought replacement 16tb drives weeks ago. I have backups, but I don't *want* to use them. Will it last the night?! #raidisnotabackup

Day 1 in a series of fixing #homelab hardware things I've been putting off for far too long... replacing the very broken CPU fan on my 9600k based gaming games console machine (the bearings are actually gone, it's not just dust). New fancy Noctua fan (and new screwdriver!) to replace it.

A new phrase I'm going to start using for my occasional demand avoidance, when you bury your head in the sand about things; "Ostrich Mode"... #neurodiversity

Would love to get some more comments from the community on OliveTin switching from calver to semver - it's an open RFC: github.com/OliveTin/Oli...

Spotify, that is pretty cool (listening to the star wars sound track)!;

Just having yet another one of those weeks where I just want to give up on the tech world. It feels like #AI has finally just consumed everything that I enjoyed about tech.

Vibe coding = "Writing code with a blindfold and an unreliable geenie" #coding #programming #ai #vibecoding

I find myself creating lots of Git repos, and forgotten to add logos, SECURITY, issue templates, or PR templates and similar, so I make a quick and dirty script to solve this called "repohealth.py"; github.com/jamesread/re... #opensource #developers #github

uncomplicated-alert-receiver 1.0.0 released! arm64 support, some UI tweaks, switch to semver. #prometheus #selfhosted #opensource #monitoring github.com/jamesread/un...

I was today years old when I learned about `df -T ...`; ``` df -T /containers/jellyfin_cache/ Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/rl-root xfs 73364480 11538924 61825556 16% / ``` #linux #opensource #sysadmin

New doc: Use OliveTin to create buttons for common kubectl commands - and create your own #Kubernetes Control Panel; docs.olivetin.app/solutions/k8... #opensource #selfhosted #containers

Switching to Antora was the best thing I've done for the #OliveTin docs :-) Tabbed docs now with a simple extension, thanks @mojavelinux.com ! #asciidoc #antora #documentation

Well this is a super useful website with an interface that doesn't suck; endoflife.date

I've been spending a bunch of evenings migrating to a new documentation system for OliveTin - #antora, fixing dead links, improving formatting, and overall design of the docs: docs.olivetin.app #opensource #selfhosted #homelab

I'm just upgrading one of my self-built remote control cars from an Arduino Uno R3 to an R4 - first time seeing this default animation - damn it's so cool! #arduino #electronics #hacking

Even though I'm not a user of Apple products or iCloud, this is still sad to see - but it was also inevitable :-( www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Announcing the release of OliveTin 2025.2.19 Features: trigger multiple actions, textarea support, limit log history to prevent browser lag. github.com/OliveTin/Oli...

Do you have regular actions you want to allow people to perform on a directory of files, such as cleaning out old logs? I just added an example to #OliveTin docs that show how you can do that; docs.olivetin.app/directory-ac... #selfhosted #opensource #sysadmin

Low poly car spotted in real life

I was just trying to fix what I thought was a bug in geoip lookups in one of my apps - but didn't realise that when roaming, your internet connection uses your home network operator. So I'm out in the states, and my IP is still near London. Never knew that. #networking

36 hours into Las Vegas, done a lot of sightseeing, walking, and all the "normal stuff". But now it's sensory overload, so back to the hotel to recharge spoons. Snuggled in bed, figuring out how to parse map GIS data files to extract railway networks - happy as a clam #neurodiversity #spoons #trains

I just got a pull request for adding "Money" and "Political Climate" to spoon-check - that speaks volumes! jamesread.github.io/spoon-check/ #neurodiversity

I built and maintain a list of LAN Parties lanlist.info - it would be great to get some submissions from other countries - UK is winning right now! #lanparty #gaming #opensource

3 groups of technical people; Group 1 has the default ISP provided "router" providing WiFi, maybe with the "guest network" enabled... Group 2 has a guest on their own VLAN... & Group 3 has many VLANs, and provides #selfhosted SSO to allow access to select home services! :-) #technology #networking

[1/2] Liang Wenfeng (CEO, DeepSeek): “In the face of disruptive technologies, moats created by closed source are temporary. Even OpenAI’s closed source approach can’t prevent others from catching up.

#OliveTin just got another unexpected shout-out on the #Linux Unplugged podcast! I cannot explain just how much this means to me - a single developer purely just writing open source code as a hobby. I just wish I could get attention for some of my other projects, too! Thanks for a great podcast!

I just started a documentation site for uncomplicated-alert-receiver (UAR), and I'm loving the yellow :-) I'm going to run out of mkdocs material themes soon! jamesread.github.io/uncomplicate... #prometheus #opensource #selfhosting #homelab

I'm thinking about resurrecting this old project, mainly for the #selfhosted community - Solution Builder. Visualize your environment, highlight areas that need documentation, capture design choices & lifecycle choices, and suggest integrations. github.com/jamesread/So... (just a prototype).

I'm not rooting for a nation state. I'm rooting for open source.