Posts in category sysadmin

12 Jul 2024

Why won't my Synology server stay shutdown?

Dev SysAdmin Synology

I've got an old (but trusty) Synology DS215j NAS. Cheap and cheerful. The only down side is that until recently you couldn't keep it off.

30 Jan 2024

2023 Retrospective

Reviews Dev DIY SysAdmin Retrospective

The fourth year in a row where I've put together a mini annual retrospective. It's primarily based around software dev and technology but includes a few other anecdotes along the way.

14 Jul 2023

Building voiptoolbox.net Chapter 3 - SIP Auth Headers

SIP Dev SysAdmin Voiptoolbox

How can you tell if an Authorization header in a SIP request is correct? VoIP Toolbox can now help you replicate the auth calculations to confirm things are working as expected.

31 May 2023

Cloudflare Email Routing

Cloudflare Dev SysAdmin

A colleague recently told me about Cloudflare's Email Routing service. This is a free service which can handle scenarios ranging from basic forwarding of emails from A to B right up to more complicated logic flows that utilise workers. This post is a bit of an overview based on my recent experience playing with the service.

30 Apr 2023

Building voiptoolbox.net Chapter 2

SIP Dev SysAdmin Voiptoolbox

It's been around 10 months since I started voiptoolbox.net. This post recaps some of the changes since the very first version.

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