We’ll be doing the next in-person Living Culture Coffee Morning at Essex Hall this Friday, 5th from 10am. You should come if you’re around.

I just realised when I sat down that yesterday’s post wasn’t published. There’s an extra publishing step that I’m somehow tricking myself into thinking doesn’t exist (is a way of saying it’s my fault, not WordPress, but I do think actually that it’s WordPress’s fault). Maybe I need to go back to Wordland.

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I’ve liked the idea of being a sysadmin since I sat next to a bloke looking after an AS/400 for a large FMCG company in 1992. Looking over his shoulder, it looked pretty easy. He took longer lunchbreaks than the rest of us and I heard he was on a higher day rate too.

Today though, 40 mins of setting up a new VPS has already made me more weary than I can say.

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Dave pointed to Doug Belshaw’s Substrate which does look fiendishly interesting. It’s got that “made by AI” look (because it was) and that will make some people scream. But perhaps it’s better to be honest than to try to make something like look more it’s more organic.

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