Category: WebDev & Code

  • Marathon training, turning planned run times into distances

    I’m training to run a marathon (Run Rootie!) and basing my training plan on the Chris Evans book “119 days to go”. That training plan is based around time you spend running rather than distance to run each time. I like the approach but it’s made it really hard for me to plan my running…

  • Building a low power server

    Note to future me: The reason the new server HDD would not sleep is because ext4lazyinit writes inodes slowly on new disks in the background, so the disks were immediately woken even if forced to sleep. Build a low power server… It will be easy, says me… Replace our 10 year old Atom C2750 running…

  • Santa-pi, a music player for a charity fundraising float

    This is a Raspberry Pi. A small, powerful, low cost computer. I’m writing this blog post from the pi you see in the photo. It is very slow compared to my laptop but it works and is in front of me now, whereas my laptop is a whole 2 meters away on another desk. This…