Michael Greenhill

IT and Photography

A comms rack

Homelab revisited

When nature and nerd collide.

6 kilos of brisket, trimmed, rubbed, and ready for smoking.

Charcoal smoking a pork shoulder

Micromanaging a needy piggy.

6 kilos of brisket, trimmed, rubbed, and ready for smoking.

Smoked brisket in a Pit Boss pellet grill

Causing a scene on Facebook because the neighbours think you're burning off.

The crew from Airplane! flying on instruments.

Persistent addressing for USB devices in Linux

Or, why doesn't Linux do this for me, if it's so damn good?

The crew from Airplane! flying on instruments.

Instrumenting autoscaling EC2 instances in Prometheus

Using Service Discovery to overcome the laziness inherent to all sysadmins.

Tom Haverford from Parks and Recreation commenting on Failing to Fail

Dealing with silent failures

Your code isn't as good as you think it is, and that's OK.

Fry and Leela from Futurama dressed up as robots

AWS Automation Wizardry

SSM, EC2, IAM, CloudWatch, and other buzzwords.

Fisher Price My First DDoS

Lessons learned from a DDoS attack

Our website got nay-nayed

Cloudflare with 'cloud' crossed out and replaced with 'slow' in Comic Sans font face

Cloudflare - is it worth it?

I don't have time for your slow website proxying!

Gandalf from Lord of the Rings reminding us to 'keep it secret'

Using AWS Secrets Manager for .env files

Extracting secrets from AWS Secrets Manager and dumping to .env files, for fun and profit!

A photo of myself presenting at the Railway Photography Forum

Night photography - Part 1

A look into my photographic process, starting with natural lighting.

Stacks of containers falling overboard

Making my homelab smarter - Part 4

Jazz Hands intensifies

A screenshot showing DHCPv6 addressing

Making my homelab smarter - Part 3

Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net

A screenshot from a pfSense firewall table

Making my homelab smarter - Part 2

Get routed!

Network diagram of my home lab

Making my homelab smarter - Part 1

Or, how I NUC'd everything up.