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  Keeping it old school, Unix style, with inetd services!

  How to build quick and dirty network services, the Unixy, way with the venerable inetd approach.

  2026-04-23

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  Using a Spy! Break! Inject! to Sniff I2C Traffic

  I've been exchanging emails, discussing debugging protocols like I2C with my Spy! Break! Inject! and I thought that writing this up as a blog post might be useful to others.

  2026-01-31

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  Presents from PCBWay

  In early December, Emily from PCBWay sent me a short message saying they were preparing some small gifts in time for Christmas and asking if I was interested in receiving them?

  2026-01-02

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  Trusted Certificates for Private Servers - Part 3

  In this third and final instalment in the series, I'll demonstrate how to retrieve trusted certificates for your internal infrastructure, automatically performing DNS-01 challenges from within OpenWrt via Mythic Beasts.

  2026-01-01

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  momtag

  Introducing momtag, or Mike's Opinionated Music Tagger. Keep a small collection of music reasonably and consistently organised.

  2025-12-09

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  Trusted Certificates for Private Servers - Part 2

  In part two of this series, I'll show you how to retrieve trusted certificates for your private Caddy server, via Mythic Beasts.

  2025-12-01

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  Trusted Certificates for Private Servers - Part 1

  In part one of this series, I'll show you how to generate self-signed, untrusted certificates for your private Caddy server.

  2025-11-21