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About me...

I am a linux geek, based in London, for most of my career, I've worked in e-commerce, managing web platforms.

Mike

Current Fave Tech List

I've filtered down my selection to tech used in my homelab or personal servers.

Fai - provision machines over the network
Proxmox - virtualisation
Kubernetes - my chosen container orchestration
Home Assistant - automations and buttons for everything
Ansible - vm/server setup
FluxCD - auto deploy my apps/infra
Falco - security

I had for many years (at least 10 years), been using ovirt, but the last backer (RedHat) withdrew from the project to focus on OpenShift. I look forward to seeing what becomes of LXD from Canonical, but for now I've switched to Proxmox which has been a great experience so far.

Home Automation

I've spent a fair amount of time making (what I think are cool) home automations, I'll be sharing more articles on this topic.

One of my favourite home automation projects is my garden lights, utilising a cheap 120W solar panel slapped on top of the shed to charge during the day. It can gather around 200-300 Wh per day to power various lights, and run a pi and a couple of micro-controller.

Website Origin

I started this website back in 2006 as a test space for web dev. This grew into a portfolio website whilst i ran a freelance webdesign company in Brighton. I now use my web server as my hub for any tech I love or want to comment on or want to share.

likes...

Home Automation, zombies, pi's, studio ghibli, linux, holidays, hacking, milkshakes, electro, vocal trance, jurasic park and zombies ate my neighbours to name a few :).