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The website of Ben Tasker, IT Manager, Linux Specialist and software developer. I'm based in Suffolk in the UK but work with customers worldwide
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Brief documentation detailing how to use my new forgejo-to-markdown utility to dump issues within a forgejo instance to markdown.
Last crawled: 20 Sep 2026 10:45 UTCScreenshot queued · Request priority →I use a number of tools on my network, including a private JIRA install (i.e. you need to log in to view anything) and the Sphider PHP search engine (I've generated a lot of documentation over the years)
Last crawled: 20 Sep 2026 10:45 UTCScreenshot queued · Request priority →A high level analysis of tarpit performance in 2026. This post looks at my stats for my longstanding SSH tarpits but also at my much more recent AI Crawler maze.
Last crawled: 20 Sep 2026 10:45 UTCScreenshot queued · Request priority →Given recent political upheaval in the US, I decided to spend some time looking at how feasible it was to move my public facing services away from US based service providers onto European alternatives.
Last crawled: 20 Sep 2026 10:45 UTCScreenshot queued · Request priority →This week I migrated my repos and project management from Gitlab to Forgejo. This blog post talks about some of the things that I ran into along the way
Last crawled: 20 Sep 2026 10:45 UTCScreenshot queued · Request priority →I recently got nerd-sniped by a toot about someone's Watchy. I ordered my own e-ink wristwatch and proceeded to knock out some C++ in order to have my Watchy talk to InfluxDB. This blog post explores how I used this to …
Last crawled: 20 Sep 2026 10:45 UTCScreenshot queued · Request priority →In January 2021 I deployed a SSH tarpit and pulled some statistics from it to look at which countries most commonly fell into it, and how long for. In July 2022 I updated the tarpit software to make statistics available…
Last crawled: 20 Sep 2026 10:45 UTCScreenshot queued · Request priority →I periodically see arguments about whether bloggers should or shouldn't be using AI to write, or proofread, posts. I've often thought that that would be a very easy way to start losing your own voice within writing post…
Last crawled: 20 Sep 2026 10:44 UTCScreenshot queued · Request priority →With plug-in solar having been legalised, I decided it'd be helpful to share some figures from our balcony install - although it's hardwired in, the inverter and panels are the same as used for plugin solar on the conti…
Last crawled: 20 Sep 2026 10:44 UTCScreenshot queued · Request priority →Short post describing creating a padded bench for our campervan
Last crawled: 20 Sep 2026 10:44 UTCScreenshot queued · Request priority →I recently installed a balcony/plug-in solar onto (well, around) our garage to provide some additional solar capacity. This post talks about the install experience, setting up monitoring via telegraf and how things have…
Last crawled: 20 Sep 2026 10:44 UTCScreenshot queued · Request priority →I recently decided to order a badgewa.re badger - this post talks about my first experience customising it.
Last crawled: 20 Sep 2026 10:44 UTCScreenshot queued · Request priority →This week has prompted me to migrate off 1Password. I decided that Vaultwarden would be a good new home for my credentials. This post talks about why and then describes getting everything migrated over.
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Last crawled: 20 Sep 2026 10:44 UTCView screenshot archive →The website of Ben Tasker, IT Manager, Linux Specialist and software developer. I'm based in Suffolk in the UK but work with customers worldwide
Last crawled: 20 Sep 2026 10:44 UTCView screenshot archive →The website of Ben Tasker, IT Manager, Linux Specialist and software developer. I'm based in Suffolk in the UK but work with customers worldwide
Last crawled: 20 Sep 2026 10:43 UTCView screenshot archive →Short post detailing how I dealt with duplicated time-series data in VictoriaMetrics - VM doesn't deduplicate by default, so this post covers turning the functionality on along with processing pre-existing data.
Last crawled: 18 Sep 2026 16:19 UTCScreenshot queued · Request priority →I started a project to categorise and report on my todo lists, using a local AI model to assist with categorisation. This post talks about that experience
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