iDemonix

I have various pieces of open source software that people have offered to donate or give me some money as a thank you for, but I usually just say the thank you is enough purely because I don't have a convenient way to…

I have 2 months of furlough, and I'd like to improve my Python (and other) skills and, for once, start and finish a project. For once I've decided to pick a project which will actually both interest and benefit myself.…

I've got a 2015 MBP, and unfortunately after constant use every day for the last 5 years, the screen has started to flicker, and I've finally had to admit that I need more RAM for things like Docker/Vagrant. Although…

I'm almost 30, and since I was 15 I've on/off wrote blog posts and written tutorials (some on my personal site, some paid articles + paid series a long time ago). One of the few things I enjoy doing at work (DevOps…

I use OneNote for most of my projects/notes, but having code in it is a nightmare, and I prefer to write in Markdown, or at least a much less 'rich'/minomal editor. There's a few buyable options, but no trustable…

I'm writing a book on monitoring: principles, theory, and practical stuff like Icinga2, Prom, Grafana, Graphite, etc. I'm also using Digital Ocean for the examples and some over paid services such as AWS. Can I just put…

I have some expendable income every month and I'd like to have a stake in cryptocurrency. I find it interesting but my attention span is short, so having some funds involved would make it more interesting, and it's…

For example, I'm in the UK and want to register a business, the name ends in ps, so I'd like to use a .ps domain as the .com is taken, and it'll only be used for email anyway. If you look at http://devo.ps/ that's an…

Seeing as Chairman May looks set to retain her role as PM of the UK, and pressing on with her anti-open-internet legislation, VPNs seem like a business that are going to only become more and more popular. I'm a 9-5…

Specifically, there is a bug in Icinga2 (an open source monitoring app written in C++) to do with clustering which I'd like to at least help debug, if not resolve and help fix. I grew up learning PHP and became a…

I've been slowly learning Laravel lately and using it for small work projects that need web front ends for various databases or similar. I'm still using jQuery and manipulating the DOM to hide and show things, and…

I'm forever starting and rarely finishing personal projects. My planning is almost non-existent and I tend to code as I go along, I almost always over-engineer and never define what an MVP should be. I'm good at Python…

My day job involves looking after a Cloud Linux web hosting setup, based on WHM and cPanel, for a few thousand small customers in a niche sector. I freelance and create (mostly WordPress powered) websites for small to…

I'm writing a book on basic monitoring for DevOps engineers, just for fun really and something for my CV. BookPrintingUK will print from a PDF, I'm aware I could use MarkDown, and I could use LeanPub - but I want a…

Some background: I'm an Ops engineer in a Small UK ISP. I joined when most the team was new, and the previous Ops engineers had moved up to higher positions. Because of this most our systems were dated, and I've had to…

I have several different pieces of software I use for note taking, but each one has its upsides and downsides, none seem to be perfect. The kind of notes I'm mainly after storing are learning notes. For example when I…

I've been wanting to make a SaaS business for years. I've done PHP freelancing for years for some cash on the side of my full time Systems Engineer job, but rather than develop stuff for other people I'd like to take a…