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The thoughts and ramblings of an Engineer

About Me

I’m an Engineer, working for Vonage (an Ericsson company). I write about stuff that interests me - primarily Networks, Software Engineering, VoIP and Electronics. It exists in the hope that someone may learn from my thoughts and ramblings. I'm on GitHub! I'm also currently fairly active on Twitter and LinkedIn.

8 July, 2024 Blog

Alarming and protecting spare wheel cover on Landrover Defender L663

Intro Due to the high resale value of Defender spare wheels and spare wheel covers, they are very prone to

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Ubiquity AP
2 January, 2024 Blog

Installing Unifi Controller (UniFi Network Servers) on Debian 12

It seems the Unifi Controller, at time of writing, is horribly outdated. It relies on Mongo DB < 5.0.4.4, which

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17 October, 2023 Blog

Maxing out the spec of a HPE ML350 Gen9 server

Intro I recently did a post on the ML350 Gen9 as a home server. This server was incredibly configurable when

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HP ML350 Gen9
10 October, 2023 Blog

HP ProLiant ML350 Gen9 as a home server

I have, for some years now, run an HP Gen8 Microserver as a home server. This has been perfectly fine

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Java
8 September, 2023 Blog

Java log4j2: Sanitising / Editing Log Messages

Intro It feels like quite a common requirement to want to sanitise your Java application logs to remove passwords, PII,

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PHP Logo
16 February, 2023 Blog

PHP FPM: Log errors to stderr (for Docker)

When running php-fpm in a Docker container, it is often desirable to log errors to stderr such that they can

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Puppet Logo
16 December, 2022 Blog

Puppet/git Error: change from ‘absent’ to ‘present’ failed: Path /xxx/ exists and is not the desired repository

This error has suddenly started appearing on previously working Puppet implementations. git have added a change, in December 2022, in

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TV and Games Console Cabinet
6 September, 2022 Blog / Twitter

Carpentry Designs: TV / Games Console Cabinet

Intro I’m not a big gamer, but I played a lot when I was younger. Having dug out a Sega

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Hikvision DSCE72HFTE
15 August, 2022 Blog

Remotely configuring Hikvision analogue cameras

Intro I wired my house, circa 2014, for CCTV. At the time, I didn’t have as much confidence as I

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AC PCB
21 July, 2022 Blog

Repairing another Air Conditioner Unit

Intro I did a post some time back about repairing a portable air conditioner unit. They’re not very complex bits

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