Migrating to SERVFAIL

Following the short-lived downtime of Cloudflare in December, I replied to Domi on Mastodon, asking for a beta code for SERVFAIL, an authoritative nameserver network. I won't tell you what SERVFAIL is, because there's a much nicer website where you can read that: beta.servfail.network…

Lunduke and Rust: How Bias Leads to Nonsense

Let me start by saying that I am not a developer, I am a sysadmin who occasionally writes code, that being in Python, Laravel and Rust. I saw a lot of talk on Twitter from an account called "Lunduke Journal" about how the woke communist language Rust caused…

Getting Halo CE on Linux

With Halo Campaign Evolved, the second remake of Combat Evolved, having been announced and the subsequent wars on social media, I was reminded of my times playing Halo Reach and 4 a long time ago on my Xbox 360. I wanted to try CE (henceforth referring to the original) again.…

Cloud Native Hacktoberfest 2025

I organised a thing... It was pretty neat. So obviously I'm going to write a million words so those who didn't attend can feel bad about themselves. And yes, this will be a million words; I am telling the whole story. The Introduction I have been…

The Story of My A-Level CS Practicals

I never told this story thoroughly enough and my brother is doing his A-levels right now and it's reminding me of my own adventures. This is the story of my computer science practicals. For my A-levels, I had 4 CS papers. Papers 1 and 3 are easy and…