Technical Capers

Making my various computers control my study lights without lifting my hands off the keyboard or opening my mouth.

In which I create my own little RGB LED pixel lights for Christmas.

Getting Wake on LAN packets between IP subnets is easy.. right?

Where I go on an adventure to integrate my new LG TV and Sound Bar with Home Assistant. Of course, it works! But how to turn the thing on...

A very deep dive into how I achieved automatic internet connection failover, a.k.a. putting my ISP's L2TP backup connection to use

A canter through the various Internet connections I've had so far, from dial-up modems of the nineties to gigabit fibre-to-the-premises.

There's a secret(ish) railway underneath London that used to carry mail. Now you can walk along the tracks.