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Sunday, July 19, 2026 →

Sunday, June 7, 2026 →

Perth by night. 📷

Thursday, June 4, 2026 →

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. 📺

Saturday, May 16, 2026 →

My son’s First Holy Communion.

Sunday, March 29, 2026 →

Bag 15 complete. Lego set complete!

Sunday, March 15, 2026 →

Bag 14 complete.

Sunday, March 15, 2026 →

Bag 13 complete.

Sunday, March 15, 2026 →

Bag 12 complete.

Saturday, March 14, 2026 →

Bag 11 complete.

Saturday, February 28, 2026 →

Bag 10 complete.

Monday, February 16, 2026 →

Bag 9 complete.

Tuesday, February 10, 2026 →

Bag 8 complete.

Sunday, February 8, 2026 →

Bag 7 complete.

Saturday, February 7, 2026 →

Bag 6 complete.

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 →

Bag 5 complete.

Monday, February 2, 2026 →

Bag 4 complete.

Sunday, February 1, 2026 →

Bag 3 complete.

Sunday, February 1, 2026 →

Bag 2 complete.

Saturday, January 31, 2026 →

Bag 1 is complete.

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.

Friday, December 26, 2025 →

Is this the best subscription cancellation deal ever?