5 October 2026 · Approximately five minutes to read · Series overview This initial post looks at what is currently known, and what it could… Read More »Anthropic, Queensland, and a $32 Billion Data Centre
The resolver had the right answer and refused to use it. This is what happens when DNSSEC validation meets split-horizon DNS on a registered domain,… Read More »You May Want Local DNS Broken Like This
A full network outage under deadline pressure traced back to a configuration decision made years earlier. The fix took about a minute once the problem… Read More »The Cost of Leaving Things As They Are
On one API integration project, I noticed our meetings frequently stopping to explain how data moved between the systems involved. There were new participants each… Read More »Diagramming the Gap
In API integration, the interface is rarely the hardest problem to solve. In early discovery we tend to think about how we are defining the… Read More »Organisational Readiness for API Integration
Infrastructure projects often slow down for a reason that is easy to overlook: the time between making a change and finding out whether it worked.… Read More »Why Predictable Systems Deliver Faster Projects
Audience This is for people running containerised services behind a reverse proxy and enforcing basic controls such as CIDR restricted admin endpoints. I assume you… Read More »When ChromeOS Quietly Broke My Split-DNS Setup
When I first set up YaCy in my homelab I wanted two things at the same time: crawler traffic leaving through a VPN proxy, and… Read More »Running YaCy Crawling over VPN While Staying a Healthy Direct Peer
Using Joplin as a capture layer for field notes allows working understanding to be recorded early, then formalised into configuration or documentation once verified.
This post proposes a lightweight context-switching layer applied over structured prompt frameworks such as LangGPT, allowing behavioural constraints to activate only when conversational context requires… Read More »Context Switching for General Purpose LLM Interaction
