ssh signed git commits
git config –global gpg.format sshgit config –global user.signingkey ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pubgit config –global commit.gpgsign true Hopefully that’ll result in my github commits being signed…. and when I...
View ArticleLetsEncrypt + Azure Keyvault + Application gateway
A few years ago I setup an Azure Function App to retrieve a LetsEncrypt certificate for a few $work services. Annoyingly that silently stopped renewing stuff. Given I’ve no idea how to update it etc or...
View Articleclassicpress
Well, I never really ‘got’ the block editor (Gutenberg – wordpress block editor) – probably due to a lack of use … so I’ve moved this site over to ClassicPress ( thank you LWN – ClassicPress article )
View Articleatuin – console shell history search
As a random, useful, console tool … try atuin for some magical shell history searching. I’m too lazy to try and record a semi-useful demo of it, but it’s replaced my ‘ctrl+r’ lookup thingy and has a...
View ArticleAnimal Licensing – Paws On the Doors
Last Monday saw the launch of Paws On the Doors – Animal Licensing – which aims to have animal licensing data for England – providing the public with a single place to lookup animal licensing...
View ArticleNew Computer Time? Perhaps not quite yet
Well, I almost went ahead and bought a Beelink SER8 – after my current desktop (Beelink SER6 Max) kept crashing at random intervals (normally between 3 and 6 days apart). Of course, since I threatened...
View ArticleInitial foray into Terraform / OpenTofu
So over the last couple of weeks at work, I’ve been learning to use Terraform (well OpenTofu) to help us manage multiple deployments in Azure and AWS. The thought being that we can have a single ‘plan’...
View ArticleIt’s always DNS …. (unbound / domain signing stuff)
Yesterday, I spent most of my day wondering what was wrong with my unbound configuration…. as a TL;DR, if you’re creating a new TLD (e.g. foo.lan) you may need to disable DNSSEC checks on it within...
View ArticleAzure – moving a virtual machine scale set to have trusted launch and...
I have a legacy virtual machine scale set which was not created with Encryption at Host and with Trusted Launch. Firstly, you’ll need to rebuild any VM image you have so it supports Trusted Launch. I...
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Trying out headscale (tailscale vpn stuff)
For sometime, I’ve been using Wireguard for a VPN to use when I’m out and about etc. As I’m fairly stupid, I used wg-quick to generate the config – however when the config looks a bit like this –...
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