It’s time for another post about LLMs! I know, I know, that’s basically all anyone talks about these days. But that sort of makes sense: it’s what a significant number of software engineers spend their day using. And they’re changing so rapidly. Back in May last year, I said:

Recently a friend was deploying Centauri, my reverse proxy service that can obtain TLS certificates using ACME DNS-01 challenges. He asked a seemingly innocent question: “When Centauri is ‘waiting for record propagation’ is there an option to increase the time?” But that’s a question with a hidden, concerning XY problem. We both use the same DNS provider, and it defin...

Another month, another edition of “What’s Chris been up to?”. Fun fact: I very nearly published this post with a “[intro]” placeholder here instead of this paragraph, despite proofreading it multiple times. “Yep, that’s where the intro will go, all good”. Now instead we have this weirdly meta introduction. Website updates and other projects A few web...

Last month I made and wrote about a personal service to track my workouts and record personal bests. Since then, things have escalated. I now have eight different services running in the same “family”:

Another month, another roundup post. This month has been very… exercise-y. Which is, for the record, not normal for me. For the previous year my only source of exercise has basically been walking, but that’s not a great fitness activity for me. When my regular walks entered the 10-15km territory it got more and more annoying to find the time and/or an interesting route. I also managed to i...

I’ve recently been bitten by some kind of strange exercise bug. I’ve gone from being mostly sedentary to struggling to not go out for a cheeky bike ride on a day that’s meant to be a rest day. Maybe this is what a midlife crisis feels like? Anyway, one of the things I’ve enjoyed about this development is seeing my personal best efforts gradually go up. There’s somethi...

Writing these monthly posts is making me very aware of how quickly the year is going. I’m not sure I like that at all. June saw some truly horrible hot weather in the UK; it’s almost like murdering the planet with CO₂ emissions was a terrible, terrible idea. My dodgy knee that I mentioned way back in the April post feels like it’s finally back to normal. I had low expectations ...