Hey, I'm Matt, a sysadmin, and this website is a cross between an experiment that is ever changing (and documented in the /changelog of course,) a blog, technical guides and a dumping ground for some often rambling opinions about stuff and things, mostly about life on and offline, but also involving tech things too. Particularly the indieweb, the UK education space, and infosec, but I'll also touch on other areas occasionally. Heck, I may even publish a few /tools every now and then.
If you wanna know more, check out my /story, or perhaps you wish see what I'm doing /now? If that doesn't interest you, take a look at some of my favourite places on the internet to /wander to. If you don't like the look of this site, try changing it with some /themes I've built! You are also, of course, free to hit me up and say /hello at any time.
We've had a huge workload placed upon our shoulders, but existing methods of organising unplanned and planned work didn't quite scale to something so massive. I needed a new system. This is what I came up with.
We had to look after 10 three-day-old chicks over the weekend. Initially I wasn't too fussed one way or the other about them... but I think there may be pet chickens in my future
Kids are great. They certainly do invent some interesting concepts... sometimes they happen across an idea which is somewhat mind bending but also entirely cute
After years of trying and saving, we've finally replaced our failing sewage system with a brand new one! Yipee! Now we can get on with stuff. Like growing food!
Why build an OS when you can build a fake OS that runs in a browser and spend years adding pointless but fun stuff to it for no reaosn other than 'teh lulz'?!
I've only gone and scrapped a perfectly functioning website and replaced it with a probably-broken mess of my own facerolling-on-keyboard code that SOMEHOW lets you read this. Don't ask how. Don't look too closely.
We have established that Sims.Net sucks. It may, however, be the chosen Suck of your environment. If so, and you need to reset the sysman account password, I got you.
Booting a VM and you get the error 'Failed to power on with Error Incorrect Function' after the 2023-10 updates? Yeah, this hit us too. Here's how to fix it
I really appreciate well-written implementation guides for server-client software, but what really gets me excited is seeing migration guides. But I hate intentionally paywalling this kind of stuff. Grrrr.
Copying and pasting from some random website is dangerous. Lots of people are recommending that you disable JavaScript to protect against this. However, not only does that break almost every website ever, it also doesn't actually prevent the issue. Here's how you can trick someone into running malicious code via copy/paste WITHOUT JavaScript