Am I the only one who sees the new Siri icon and thinks it should be the badge of some random Chinese car manufacturer?
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I’ve lived here a while now and this bank of light switches remains a guessing game every time.
Perth by night. 📷
I was mighty impressed with Your Friends & Neighbours committing fully to the set dressing. She wasn’t writing her book in Pages, as we so often see. She was writing it in Scrivener, and she even had a full sidebar. I had to stop and take a photo. 📺
My son’s First Holy Communion.
Bag 15 complete. Lego set complete!
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Home Ethernet
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
About a year ago I had my home wired with Ethernet. The previous house I had lived was cabled, and I couldn’t live in the new house without wireless backhaul. Aint nobody got time for that.
The other day I noticed that my network transfer speeds seemed slow.
Running iperf3 between my mac mini server and my laptop, I identified the network was throttling at around 97 Mbps - far from the gigabit speeds I would expect. However, that 97 number was so perfectly close to 100 Mbps that it just had to be a failed cable or terminator. The problem was, which one?
More problematic was that I couldn’t remember how the house hasd been wired. The contractors didn’t leave me with a diagram, so to diagnose the fault it was also helpful to build a map of the network.
To help my future self, here is one I created using the wonderful software Curio:
With my topology now clear I moved on to testing, slowing spanning outwards from the mac mini that was my listening end of iperf. Starting with a direct connection between it and my laptop, confirming gigabit speeds, then moving out from the server, a network layer at a time, to see where the speeds dropped.
I determined that it was a single Ethernet patch wire that was running from an Ethernet drop in my TV Room to the switch in that room that was damaged. I replaced it with a new cable, and continued to test other connections, and all were good.
My home network is performant once more, and I’m so pleased that it was a simple cable that was damaged, and not any of the infrastructure. That would have been annoying.
Is this the best subscription cancellation deal ever?
Christmas movie on the outdoor screen at Perth Stadium. 🚴
Summer Ride
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 →
I couldn’t take anymore Tahoe Liquid Glass shenanigans. So I’m back to this classic look.
At least I have my proxy icons back.
Saw Gomez perform tonight. So awesome!
Inktober 2025 Day 31. Award
Inktober 2025 Day 30. Vacant
Inktober 2025 Day 29. Lesson
