Setting up XMPP (Prosody) on Debian Bookworm

Howto on setting up and running Prosody XMPP server on Debian 12, Bookworm.

Blog migrated to GreenCloud

This blog has been migrated from Inception Hosting to GreenCloud.

Blog maintenance

Moving my Ghost blog database from SQLite to MySQL & some optimisations.

It's alive!

Blog resurrected!

A G-G-G-Ghost

Blog updated to run on Ghost. Hopefully i'll now post more often!

Cheap domains and inexpensive Virtual Private Servers (VPS)

Just a few special offers on domains and VPS that are currently available from various providers.

New theme and domain move

New theme for the site.

Ad blocking using DNS and Privoxy (with Squid for caching)

Chaining Squid and Privoxy for caching and ad-blocking combined with DNS-based ad-blocking using dnsmasq.

Native IPv6 on Zen and IPv6-availability for this site

My ISP, Zen, now provides native IPv6, and i've also made this site available over IPv6.

Responsive Design

Moved my website over to the Pure.css framework.

Customising OpenWrt to my needs

My customisations to OpenWrt Chaos Calmer to optimise for UK FTTC. With some additional tweaks to suit my usage.

Android still doesn't support Opus ringtones

Android 5.1 only has partial support for the hot new codec.