Introducing the Simple Download Manager

The Simple Download Manager is another itch scratch to open source software project tale, basically I needed a simple way to serve files for download and keep some statistics. So, like a good open source citizen I’ve made it available under the GPL, hopefully it’ll save someone some time! Usage is very simple; clone the […]

Marcus Povey

The Simple Download Manager is another itch scratch to open source software project tale, basically I needed a simple way to serve files for download and keep some statistics. So, like a good open source citizen I’ve made it available under the GPL, hopefully it’ll save someone some time! Usage is very simple; clone the […]

Reducing the stress of configuration management with Git

I have previously written about using Git to add revision history to existing rsync backups. Having performed a number of configuration changes and system upgrades recently, I have found another use of Git which has proven invaluable. It’s a fairly obvious hack, but it turns out that turning selected configuration directories (for example /etc/apache2/ and […]

Marcus Povey

I have previously written about using Git to add revision history to existing rsync backups. Having performed a number of configuration changes and system upgrades recently, I have found another use of Git which has proven invaluable. It’s a fairly obvious hack, but it turns out that turning selected configuration directories (for example /etc/apache2/ and […]

Introducing the NPPL Pilots Electronic Logbook

I would like to take a moment out of your normal reading to introduce a little project of mine, the NPPL (National Private Pilot Licence) Electronic Logbook. The tl;dr is that as a private pilot myself as well as a programmer, I wanted a quick and easy way to keep track of my currency requirements, […]

Marcus Povey

I would like to take a moment out of your normal reading to introduce a little project of mine, the NPPL (National Private Pilot Licence) Electronic Logbook. The tl;dr is that as a private pilot myself as well as a programmer, I wanted a quick and easy way to keep track of my currency requirements, […]