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...
Booting the Raspberry Pi 5 from NVMe
Here's my workflow for setting up the Raspberry Pi 5 to boot from NVMe for headless use. I'll also give my thoughts on the initial generation of PCIe...