May 24 2021

Showed up to a few low-key conferences last week (Multitasking between SLOconf and o11yfest for a few days).
It felt great to be catching up with some folks I hadn't in a while -- not having the GOOG hat on was a refreshing change. It's like the manager/director/VP/whatever …
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January 03 2021

I'm now most of the way through the ~month or so I took off work. Around the start of it, I made a few plans, but I also resolved to unapologetically spend much of it just relaxing, and feeling non-guilty about that. It's something I've been working on, and I'm …
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December 31 2020

My last attempt at doing the Home Automation/Domotics/Whatyacallit a few years back mostly involved buying expensive widgets, determining they are shite, or marketed at US power and outlets, and then discovering that setup and upgrades generally involved one ore more of downloading a random .exe from random websites …
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November 1 2014

Off to Mountain View in the morning for 3 days, then onwards to New York. I haven't been to MTV since January, or NYC since June, so I guess I'm due in both.
This is the aeroplane survival kit. I don't sleep on planes, and Aer Lingus have transatlantic WiFi …
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Using GMail as a relay with Postfix
I fiddled a bit with this, so I thought I'd do a no-nonsense guide to
doing this. There are other guides, but a lot of them are incomplete and
will leave you with queueing issues or annoyances.
The science bit:
:::python
smtp_use_tls = yes
smtp_sasl_auth_enable=yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps=hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd …
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