Edd Miles
@i.am.eddmil.es
Cambridge-based professional nerd, currently trying out self-hosting a Bluesky PDS instance.
This profile is likely to be a mix of tech crap, dog pics, and football rants about my beloved Crewe Alexandra
I am also @[email protected] on Mastdon
This profile is likely to be a mix of tech crap, dog pics, and football rants about my beloved Crewe Alexandra
I am also @[email protected] on Mastdon
Well I restored my bsky pds from backup after a nas crash... and my repo is completely banjaxed. This message may or may not come through, but I think I might have to give up and start my account over from scratch if not...
December 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Well I restored my bsky pds from backup after a nas crash... and my repo is completely banjaxed. This message may or may not come through, but I think I might have to give up and start my account over from scratch if not...
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Every British person on the internet is complaining about you
July 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Every British person on the internet is complaining about you
I no longer use #Amazon, but I still keep my account so I can access my old purchases; I saw they've got #passkey support now, so I decided to test it out.
0/5 stars. One of these is the default *Android* provider, the other is a Yubikey. And I can't rename them even if I could tell them apart.
0/5 stars. One of these is the default *Android* provider, the other is a Yubikey. And I can't rename them even if I could tell them apart.
May 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Reposted by Edd Miles
One thing that never came up in the Dune books, is that sandworms draw NSFW art, but you'd never know it because the few that post their work online, do so from behind anonymous accounts. They are hesitant to reveal themselves as naughty nibbers.
That's why the Fremen call them "Shy Who Lewds"
That's why the Fremen call them "Shy Who Lewds"
May 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
One thing that never came up in the Dune books, is that sandworms draw NSFW art, but you'd never know it because the few that post their work online, do so from behind anonymous accounts. They are hesitant to reveal themselves as naughty nibbers.
That's why the Fremen call them "Shy Who Lewds"
That's why the Fremen call them "Shy Who Lewds"
Ok, someone needs to come to my house and check if I'm suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning, because I actually *like* the new Jira UI.
#Atlassian #Jira
#Atlassian #Jira
May 13, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Ok, someone needs to come to my house and check if I'm suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning, because I actually *like* the new Jira UI.
#Atlassian #Jira
#Atlassian #Jira
Having redeployed my #homelab CA recently, I wrote a post about automating SSH Certificate deployment with puppet; and then how to hack SSH certs into the bits of my lab not managed with Puppet.
Spoilers, very few tools are ready for short lived certs, ssh or tls.
i.am.eddmil.es/posts/ssh-ce...
Spoilers, very few tools are ready for short lived certs, ssh or tls.
i.am.eddmil.es/posts/ssh-ce...
Trouble with Certificates: Automating my SSH CA and the many many exceptions required
Introduction This post has been updated since launch, with links to my monitoring code, and some clarification in the Opnsense docs
Over a year ago now, I detailed setting up my homelab with SSH certi...
i.am.eddmil.es
May 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Having redeployed my #homelab CA recently, I wrote a post about automating SSH Certificate deployment with puppet; and then how to hack SSH certs into the bits of my lab not managed with Puppet.
Spoilers, very few tools are ready for short lived certs, ssh or tls.
i.am.eddmil.es/posts/ssh-ce...
Spoilers, very few tools are ready for short lived certs, ssh or tls.
i.am.eddmil.es/posts/ssh-ce...
The moon has begun eating the sun! Paniiic!
(Forgive potato quality photo, I'm stuck using a seven year old phone camera through a pair of cheap cardboard eclipse glasses :p)
#Eclipse
(Forgive potato quality photo, I'm stuck using a seven year old phone camera through a pair of cheap cardboard eclipse glasses :p)
#Eclipse
March 29, 2025 at 10:32 AM
The moon has begun eating the sun! Paniiic!
(Forgive potato quality photo, I'm stuck using a seven year old phone camera through a pair of cheap cardboard eclipse glasses :p)
#Eclipse
(Forgive potato quality photo, I'm stuck using a seven year old phone camera through a pair of cheap cardboard eclipse glasses :p)
#Eclipse
What my prescription contained: Amfexa (amphetamines)
What the pharmacy delivered: Adaflex (melatonin)
Not sure they could have got the intended effects more wrong there really...
What the pharmacy delivered: Adaflex (melatonin)
Not sure they could have got the intended effects more wrong there really...
March 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
What my prescription contained: Amfexa (amphetamines)
What the pharmacy delivered: Adaflex (melatonin)
Not sure they could have got the intended effects more wrong there really...
What the pharmacy delivered: Adaflex (melatonin)
Not sure they could have got the intended effects more wrong there really...
Today was the first All Hands meeting at $dayJob since I started on my #ADHD meds... They really make a difference. If this persists, and is actually how neurotypical people experience meetings, then wow. I have been struggling and missing out for *years*
March 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Today was the first All Hands meeting at $dayJob since I started on my #ADHD meds... They really make a difference. If this persists, and is actually how neurotypical people experience meetings, then wow. I have been struggling and missing out for *years*
I've spent the last 2 days at $DayJob bashing my head against a problem. Finally got a solution deployed last night.
Woke up suddenly at 4am this morning realizing that I massively over engineered it, and could have solved it with about 3 #IPTables rules instead.
🤦♂️
Woke up suddenly at 4am this morning realizing that I massively over engineered it, and could have solved it with about 3 #IPTables rules instead.
🤦♂️
February 26, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I've spent the last 2 days at $DayJob bashing my head against a problem. Finally got a solution deployed last night.
Woke up suddenly at 4am this morning realizing that I massively over engineered it, and could have solved it with about 3 #IPTables rules instead.
🤦♂️
Woke up suddenly at 4am this morning realizing that I massively over engineered it, and could have solved it with about 3 #IPTables rules instead.
🤦♂️
Slightly different Blog Post today, where I've written about automatically backing up Actual Budget. I've tried to aim it at the level of a novice Actual Admin, I'd appreciate feedback on if I've hit the mark there! i.am.eddmil.es/posts/backup...
#ActualBudget #SelfHosting
#ActualBudget #SelfHosting
Automatically backing up Actual Budget
Intro I’ve been using Actual Budget as a replacement for YNAB4 for about 6 months now, the software is great, and I’m not doing a guide to installing it because there are loads of them out there, that...
i.am.eddmil.es
February 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Slightly different Blog Post today, where I've written about automatically backing up Actual Budget. I've tried to aim it at the level of a novice Actual Admin, I'd appreciate feedback on if I've hit the mark there! i.am.eddmil.es/posts/backup...
#ActualBudget #SelfHosting
#ActualBudget #SelfHosting
Me: I can't drink Monster on my new meds, so I'll play a game to keep my mind off the caffeine withdrawal. I know, I haven't played Death Stranding yet, so I'll give that a go.
Death Stranding:
Death Stranding:
January 18, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Me: I can't drink Monster on my new meds, so I'll play a game to keep my mind off the caffeine withdrawal. I know, I haven't played Death Stranding yet, so I'll give that a go.
Death Stranding:
Death Stranding:
Now I'm not saying my friends and I are ever so slightly pedantic, but I was phoned today, while I was working, to adjudicate an argument between my married friends over what the upper bound is for what you can refer to as 'scores of <x>'
(The upper bound is 100, and if you disagree, you're wrong.)
(The upper bound is 100, and if you disagree, you're wrong.)
January 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Now I'm not saying my friends and I are ever so slightly pedantic, but I was phoned today, while I was working, to adjudicate an argument between my married friends over what the upper bound is for what you can refer to as 'scores of <x>'
(The upper bound is 100, and if you disagree, you're wrong.)
(The upper bound is 100, and if you disagree, you're wrong.)
#Fortinet have dropped 29 security updates today, 14 of which are rated "high" or "critical". Have fun everyone.
FFS.
www.fortiguard.com/psirt
#FortiOS #FortiFail #Fortigate
FFS.
www.fortiguard.com/psirt
#FortiOS #FortiFail #Fortigate
PSIRT Advisories | FortiGuard Labs
www.fortiguard.com
January 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
#Fortinet have dropped 29 security updates today, 14 of which are rated "high" or "critical". Have fun everyone.
FFS.
www.fortiguard.com/psirt
#FortiOS #FortiFail #Fortigate
FFS.
www.fortiguard.com/psirt
#FortiOS #FortiFail #Fortigate
Never let it be said that I write unprofessional documentation.
January 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Never let it be said that I write unprofessional documentation.
Having spent the morning trying to discuss which new Dell maps to our existing hardware at work; my main take away so far from #CES2025 is: *Every* company there is failing at one of the two hard problems in computer science, and I'm not talking about cache invalidation or off-by-one errors.
January 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Having spent the morning trying to discuss which new Dell maps to our existing hardware at work; my main take away so far from #CES2025 is: *Every* company there is failing at one of the two hard problems in computer science, and I'm not talking about cache invalidation or off-by-one errors.
Did I just push a noop change to the git repo backing my website, just so the automated build system would update the copyright date on my website? Yes. Yes I did, 'cos seeing 2025 on there feels like THE FUTURE.
January 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Did I just push a noop change to the git repo backing my website, just so the automated build system would update the copyright date on my website? Yes. Yes I did, 'cos seeing 2025 on there feels like THE FUTURE.
Fuck fireworks. Sincerely a terrified 10-year-old Labrador I'm currently cuddling.
If you must have fireworks on New year's Eve, can you at least all do them at the same time at midnight, not slowly spread out from quarter past fucking six onwards.
If you must have fireworks on New year's Eve, can you at least all do them at the same time at midnight, not slowly spread out from quarter past fucking six onwards.
December 31, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Fuck fireworks. Sincerely a terrified 10-year-old Labrador I'm currently cuddling.
If you must have fireworks on New year's Eve, can you at least all do them at the same time at midnight, not slowly spread out from quarter past fucking six onwards.
If you must have fireworks on New year's Eve, can you at least all do them at the same time at midnight, not slowly spread out from quarter past fucking six onwards.
I have just watched Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, and as an IT professional of 15 years, I can conclusively state: I have never seen a more accurate portrayal of computer #hacking in the history of cinema.
#WallaceAndGromit #FeathersMcGraw
#WallaceAndGromit #FeathersMcGraw
December 25, 2024 at 7:59 PM
I have just watched Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, and as an IT professional of 15 years, I can conclusively state: I have never seen a more accurate portrayal of computer #hacking in the history of cinema.
#WallaceAndGromit #FeathersMcGraw
#WallaceAndGromit #FeathersMcGraw
Merry #Christmas everyone, not getting tooooooo dressed up this year.
December 25, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Merry #Christmas everyone, not getting tooooooo dressed up this year.
Somebody talk me out of spending a grand upgrading my 4x8 TB raid 10 array to 4x 16TB. I'm down to like 0.9TB free space.
December 23, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Somebody talk me out of spending a grand upgrading my 4x8 TB raid 10 array to 4x 16TB. I'm down to like 0.9TB free space.
First post on bluesky (mostly just to check how much traffic hits my PDS from this) and it's a blog post that might be relevent to a tiny fraction of the tiny fraction of you running your own #pds. Its on using PROXY protocol to #selfhost behind a single ipv4 address.
i.am.eddmil.es/posts/proxy-...
i.am.eddmil.es/posts/proxy-...
How I overcomplicate my self hosting using the PROXY protocol
Into OK I’m off work sick today, so as I’m stuck lying in bed shivering, who’s up for another episode of “How Edd does things a stupidly fragile way in order to solve minor problems that have much eas...
i.am.eddmil.es
December 11, 2024 at 5:13 PM
First post on bluesky (mostly just to check how much traffic hits my PDS from this) and it's a blog post that might be relevent to a tiny fraction of the tiny fraction of you running your own #pds. Its on using PROXY protocol to #selfhost behind a single ipv4 address.
i.am.eddmil.es/posts/proxy-...
i.am.eddmil.es/posts/proxy-...