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Home Grown Dynamic DNS

My setup to do dynamic DNS updates to Cloudflare. The package available are too heavyweight or don’t do what I want; it’s simple enough to write my own.

Recover Previous Versions of VS Code Files

If you accidently overwrite a file in VS Code (with uncommitted changes…), you might get lucky and find it in VS Code caches.

Store Mappings

When you first get here you’ll realize that a lot of the big US chains are not in Ireland. I’m not saying they should be, but if you find yourself saying “I need to get X from Y”, this little guid...

Useful Apps

Here are a few apps that you’ll want to have. I’m still not clear on how the app stores work in different countries, you might not find these in the US app store (please let me know if so…) ...

Notes for Americans Driving in Ireland

Beyond the obvious “drive on the other side of the road”, here are a bunch of tips on things that you should keep in mind. If you want the tourist pamphlet, check out Using The Roads In Ireland T...

Restic Backups with Backblaze B2

See Quickstart Guide for Restic and Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Install Linux (Ubuntu) I prefer to install from restic repo; the version packaged for ubuntu is several versions behind. curl -L h...

Linux Tailscale Watchdog

Installing a software watch dog Useful on a linux (debian or ubuntu in this case) system, relies on a kernel software watchdog. This one attempts to ensure tailscale is always running. sudo apt ...

iOS Shared Reminders as a Grocery List

There are tons of shared grocery list websites / apps out there; it’s a very simple project technically. I looked at a bunch options and always found some aspect missing. As usual, I considered bu...

Mike's Brownies

I’ve been making these since the late ‘80s – I got them out of a long forgotten cookbook (“All-American Brownies” is all I can remember…). They’re incredibly easy to make and they never fail to imp...

Relevant XKCD

They say there’s always a relevant XKCD… Here’s one way to find it: relevant XKCD There’s also this cool Pagefind demonstration from CloudCannon showing off client side search: This is xkcd, inde...