I Bought An N100 Mini PC, Then Another
I have bought dozens of Raspberry Pis over the years, but I'm now turning to the Mini PC for R&D work. The Intel N100 is a low-power processor with...
The 90s UNIX Utility That Fell Out of Favour
The classic command finger is still found on MacOS and various other BSDs even today, but has fallen out of favour. Why? For us over here in the UK,...
How to run Firecracker without KVM on cloud VMs
In this post I want to introduce a novel way to run virtual machines, namely microVMs on cloud VMs where KVM is not available. When I say "where KVM...
You might need a portable monitor
I've had two monitors in the past, either two physical screens plugged into the same computer, or a laptop screen and a monitor. Neither really worke...
Explore and debug GitHub Actions via SSH
When we were developing VM images for GitHub Actions for actuated, we often needed to get a shell to explore and debug jobs. That functionality was a...