tl;dr: avoid Wi-Fi

If you are into home automation – lights, locks, thermostats – a trap lies in wait.

A domain name that is older than the commercial Internet

Over thirty years ago, I established UNICOM.COM as my identity on the net. Today, that chapter has closed.

Generating my Jekyll website with Jenkins and Docker

In my previous blog post (from six months ago – so how you think I’m doing at this blogging thing?) I discussed why I used the Jekyll static site generator for this site. I also mentioned wanting a CI/CD pipeline to automate the publication of this site. That way I could author the post locally, push it to my git repo, and through the magic of webhooks it would automatically appear posted on the site some minutes later.

Why I'm using the Jekyll static site generator

Anybody who’s been doing IT long enough knows that old ideas – both good and bad – often get dressed up in new frocks and represent themselves as the new hotness.

I started blogging in 2002. I stopped blogging in 2018.