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Aug 13, 2025:
Checking in with my homelab after leaving it for a month
I recently had the pleasure of going outside and touching some grass, which means I haven’t worked on my homelab for about a month, and now …
Aug 13, 2025: How to set the Argon One NVME case to turn on Raspberry Pi when it receives power The Raspberry Pi 4 in the Argon One NVME case requires a jumper pin adjustment to power on automatically when receiving power.
Aug 13, 2025: Two weeks of rest and I’m recovered from my trip. Time to swap back to my nerd blog and do some computer stuff.
Jul 28, 2025: Geneva ✈️ Manchester
Jul 27, 2025: Completed the Tour du Mont Blanc!
Jul 19, 2025: Starting the Tour du Mont Blanc today, will be posting from my hiking blog but there will inevitably be a double post or two
Jul 18, 2025: Chamonix 🇫🇷
Jul 18, 2025: Manchester ✈️ Geneva
Jul 11, 2025: Setting off to the other side of the island for the weekend. Only 9 hours to go.
Jul 10, 2025: Booked my flight to Switzerland to hike the Tour du Mont Blanc, so now I’m doing some last minute shopping for new gear and replacements of all …
Jul 5, 2025: Pangolin works on my IPv6 only Pi 🎉 I’ve got some tidying up to do, then it needs a write-up.
Jul 3, 2025:
Pangolin on a Pi project progress
Most things in tech play out like that scene from Malcom in the Middle, where Hal’s trying to do one thing and then he needs to do another, and …
Jun 30, 2025: Pushed my developer environment setup scripts repo up to GitHub. As mentioned in the readme: This is what works for me. I don’t expect or …
Jun 30, 2025: This week’s aim is to find a better balance 🧘
Jun 23, 2025: Smoking BBQ Candy share.fireboard.io/FE826C
Jun 21, 2025:
Why would you want a home server?
Some thoughts to help you work out if you want a home server.
Jun 20, 2025:
Why would you want a NAS?
Some thoughts to help you work out if you want a NAS. NAS stands for Network Attached Storage, which means you can connect to …What’s a NAS?
Jun 15, 2025: Talos defaults to adding the node.kubernetes.io/exclude-from-external-load-balancers= label to all control plane nodes, which are all I’m using …
Jun 15, 2025: Talos is up and running as a Kubernetes cluster on the Turing Pi 🎉. I’m using ArgoCD to install and manage things, starting with MetalLB so that …
Jun 13, 2025:
Why Talos and not Ubuntu and K3s for Turing Pi RK1
Now that I want to use the RK1s in my Turing Pi to host a Kubernetes cluster I have a few different options on how to do it. My goto is usually …Ubuntu
Jun 13, 2025: Kinda excited for Apple Containerization, Apple’s approach to running containers on macOS, even if it’s more about the open source …
Jun 12, 2025: Cat sitting for a friend this week.
Jun 4, 2025: microblogging attempt + 1 I’ve updated my /now page with what I’m up to during my break from work.
Apr 4, 2025: Unstuck Today is my last day working at Stickee, after which I will be “unstuck”. I’d like to thank all of the wonderful people I’ve …
Jan 3, 2025:
PC Games I liked in 2024
This isn’t “The Game Awards” because I didn’t play every game that came out, even though I tried to. I’ll be using the …
Jan 2, 2025:
Getting my own domain
The first step to getting on the IndieWeb is to have your own domain. This is an easy step for me because I’ve already got one, so I thought …
Jan 2, 2025:
The plan
I was stuck on a problem at work, I forget what, and I was on someone’s blog reading their post about it. By the end of it they’d helped …
Jan 1, 2025:
My blog in 2024
A retrospective on blogging in 2024.
Jan 1, 2025: Happy New Year 🥳 I will be posting more in 2025. That’s not a resolution, just a coincidence.
Jul 4, 2024:
weeknotes 003
I cycled 50 miles for weeknotes 003.
Jul 4, 2024:
on cycling 50 miles in a week
50 miles in a week isn’t much of a cycling achievement. Most cyclists are training for 100 miles in one go.
Jul 3, 2024:
on microblogging a trip
I’m still working out blogging, micro or not.
Jul 3, 2024: The easiest way to avoid mistakes whilst blogging is to not post anything, but that’s also a mistake. I hit publish on bad at blogging and …
Jul 3, 2024:
don't follow me
I genuinely don’t think you should be following me. It’s a bit weird.
Jul 3, 2024:
bad at blogging
Jun 20, 2024: Hiked the West Highland Way. 96 miles from Milngavie to Fort William.
Jun 20, 2024: Rested, showered and caffeinated. Ready for day 7. 25km to Fort William.
Jun 19, 2024: Made it to Kinlochleven. Should have eaten more than just Skittles and Scottish Tablet for lunch. Tired.
Jun 19, 2024: Day 6 involves breakfast at Glencoe mountain resort, Kingshouse Inn, and dealing with a low phone battery.
Jun 18, 2024: Misty mountain wild camp.
Jun 18, 2024: Day 5 and I’d hoped for a massive day, doing 2 stages in one go to bring the total down from 8 days to 7, but I’ve woken up feeling a bit run down. …
Jun 18, 2024: Day summaries have been postponed until after the trip. They take too long to write on a phone and I have walking to do.
Jun 17, 2024: Haggis, Neeps and Tatties at the Tyndrum Inn.
Jun 17, 2024: Even later start to day 4 but I treated myself to a full Scottish breakfast. 19km today. Apparently days 2 and 3 are the toughest walking sections so …
Jun 16, 2024: Made it to Beinglas in time for dinner.
Jun 16, 2024: Loch Lomond
Jun 16, 2024: You’re not allowed to camp at this perfect little camp spot and then sit on the perfectly located bench beside it because it’s on this side of the …
Jun 16, 2024: Breakfast banana from Bocsa Bean in Rowardennan. And a coffee of course. I was impressed that the whole trailer’s powered by the electric car parked …
Jun 16, 2024: Today’s just as long as yesterday and yet I’m setting off an hour later 🥴 Should still make it before sunset.
Jun 16, 2024: Morning. Day 2 summary needs to wait until I find WiFi.
Jun 15, 2024: A long and undulating second day. Cheers! ⛺️
Jun 15, 2024: Sandwich stop in Balmaha. Which is a fantastic word to shout in a bad Scottish accent.
Jun 15, 2024: Loch Lomond from Conic Hill. Half way through today’s route.
Jun 15, 2024: These Aloe Vera ear plugs blocked out most of the snoring and noisy sleeping pads at the camp site last night. Nothing could stop the 4:30 alarm from …
Jun 14, 2024: Well this is a first. Night 1 of the West Highland Way for me is a stay at Drymen Camping, eating pizza in my tent. 🍕⛺️
Jun 14, 2024: Off to a very damp start. 3rd time doing the rain jacket on and then off again dance. 92 miles to go.
Jun 14, 2024: I’m walking The West Highland Way. Almost 100 miles, should take about a week, so this is now a hiking and camping micro blog.
Jun 14, 2024: The 2 late week notes are delayed yet again. I’d hoped to write them on the train but the views heading to Scotland were too good to ignore.
Jun 3, 2024: At least I can see the way down. ⛰️ Moel Siabod
Jun 3, 2024: I climbed 872 metres for these views. ⛰️Moel Siabod
May 31, 2024: Coffee and my first ever I-cycled-50-miles-in-a-week-biscuit. Day 5/5 complete.
May 30, 2024: Found a secret beach. It’s on Komoot and is pretty well sign-posted from the path, but it’s a secret. Day 4/5 complete.
May 29, 2024: I climbed a 10% hill. I then had to bask in the glory of my accomplishment for a minute. Day 3/5 complete.
May 28, 2024: Coach asked if a photo every day was necessary? I’m undecided. Day 2/5 complete.
May 27, 2024: Bank holiday by the sea.
May 27, 2024: Coach says if I want to cycle 50 miles in a day I must first cycle 50 miles. So I’ve split it over 5 days. Day 1/5 complete. 🚲
May 27, 2024: Got any tips for getting started with RSS readers? I’ve installed NetNewsWire on my phone and laptop and they sync from FreshRSS which is …
May 26, 2024:
Weeknotes 002
Another missed opportunity to photograph my food.
Another weeknotes.
May 20, 2024: Setting up my Micro.blog sub-domain using IaC, Terraform and Cloudflare The last step to setting up my new Micro.blog was to use it from my own domain. I debated using it exclusively at paultibbetts.uk but I want to work …
May 19, 2024: Weeknotes 001 Weeknotes are for when you’re eating sushi and forget to take a photo and then later you decide you should tell people about it because it was …
May 13, 2024: What I'm doing right now Sabbatical I’m currently on a three month sabbatical from work. I’ve been there for over five years and wanted a little break to work on …
May 8, 2024: One week of touch typing ⌨️ I thought I knew how to type. For years I’ve been able to type without looking at the keys and I could get used to a new keyboard in hours, if …
May 2, 2024: It’s new keyboard day! I ordered a Glove80 with Red switches from MoErgo on the 23rd of April and got it in the UK 10 days later. It’s …
May 2, 2024: Japanese-style sandwich bread 🍞 The recipe’s from JapanEasy Bowls & Bento by Tim Anderson 📚 Most definitely not authentic and not very …
Apr 25, 2024: The Kailh Choc switches I ordered from China finally arrived. Pro Red (right) seemed too light so I’ve gone for Red (left) for my new keyboard. …
Apr 21, 2024: Hello, micro.blog! My name’s Paul. I’m a DevOps Engineer - whatever that means. I backed Micro.blog on Kickstarter all that time ago but …
Apr 21, 2024: Hello, World! 👋