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· 3mo ago

New #Blog: Migrating From Gitlab to Forgejo Author: Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/software-development/migrating-from-gitlab-to-forgejo.html?utm_source=rss #forgejo #gitlab #migration #woodpecker-ci

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Migrating From Gitlab to Forgejo

This week I migrated my repos and project management from Gitlab to Forgejo. This blog post talks about some of the things that I ran into along the way

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· 6mo ago

New #Blog: Adding a Balcony Solar Kit To Our Capacity
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/house-stuff/adding-plugin-solar-to-our-capacity.html?utm_source=rss

#electrical #housestuff #solar #telegraf

Adding a Balcony Solar Kit To Our Capacity

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Adding a Balcony Solar Kit To Our Capacity

I recently installed a balcony/plug-in solar onto (well, around) our garage to provide some additional solar capacity. This post talks about the install experience, setting up monitoring via telegraf

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· 10mo ago

Replacing a Google Nest Thermostat with Home Assistant
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/house-stuff/replacing-google-nest-with-a-matter-thermostat.html?utm_source=rss

#heating #homeassistant #homeautomation #housestuff #matter #nest

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· 7mo ago

New #Blog: Moving My E-books to Booklore
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/general/moving-ebooks-to-booklore.html?utm_source=rss

#booklore #ebook #kobo

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Moving My E-books to Booklore

Blogpost talking about deploying and configuring Booklore to (hopefully) play host to our ebook collection in future

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· 11mo ago

New #Documentation: Monitoring a UPS with Telegraf and Grafana
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/documentation/linux/monitoring-a-UPS-with-telegraf-and-grafana.html?utm_source=rss

#alerting #electricity #grafana #monitoring #telegraf #ups

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· 6mo ago

New #Blog: Migrating From Booklore to Calibre-Web
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/general/migrating-from-booklore-to-calibre-web-automated.html?utm_source=rss

#booklore #calibre #calibre-web #ebook #kobo

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Migrating From Booklore to Calibre-Web

Short post detailing my experiences migrating our e-book library from (the now defunct) Booklore to Calibre Web (then to Calibre Web Automated). It describes building a library database from a directo

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· 7mo ago

New #Documentation: Installing KOReader onto a Kobo Author: Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/documentation/general/setting-up-koreader-on-a-kobo.html?utm_source=rss #ebook #kobo #koreader #nickelmenu

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Installing KOReader onto a Kobo

Short post detailing how to install KOReader onto a Kobo, providing the means to wirelessly sync PDFs to and from the device as you would with standard ebooks

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· 9mo ago

New #Blog: Changing Browser from Firefox to Waterfox
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/the-internet/migrating-from-firefox-to-waterfox.html?utm_source=rss

#browsers #firefox #migration #theinternet #waterfox

Changing Browser from Firefox to Waterfox

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Changing Browser from Firefox to Waterfox

A blog post talking about moving my daily driver from Firefox to Waterfox. This (longish) post explores why as well as talking about the process and some issues that I ran into along the way

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· 9mo ago

New #Blog: Using Woodpecker CI to publish site updates
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/the-internet/publishing-my-sites-using-woodpecker-ci.html?utm_source=rss

#ci/cd #hugo #nikola #theinternet #woodpecker-ci

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Using Woodpecker CI to publish site updates

Post talking about how I've been using Woodpecker CI to automate deployment of my websites, including a plugin that I wrote to purge BunnyCDN's cache

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· 7mo ago

New #Blog: Converting a CP2 from CO2 to High Pressure Air Author: Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/general/converting-a-cp2-to-pcp.html?utm_source=rss #airgun #shooting #smk

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Converting a CP2 from CO2 to High Pressure Air

Post detailing the incremental process that I went through to convert a CP2 airgun from CO2 to high pressure air.

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· 7mo ago

New #Documentation: Importing FX Chronograph Readings Into InfluxDB
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/documentation/shooting/importing-fx-radar-shots-into-influxdb.html?utm_source=rss

#fxradar #influxdb #shooting

Importing FX Chronograph Readings Into InfluxDB

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Importing FX Chronograph Readings Into InfluxDB

Post detailing how to use my new utility to import ballistic chronograph data from the FX Radar app into InfluxDB for visualisation and alerting in Grafana

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· 8mo ago

New #Blog: Considering Disabling Scraper Snitch
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/security/considering-discontinuing-scrapersnitch-bot.html?utm_source=rss

#bots #fediverse #mastodon #security

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Considering Disabling Scraper Snitch

For a few months now, I've been back and forth about whether or not to disable my Scraper Snitch service. My driving concern has been centred around the potential for false positives and a feeling tha

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· 9mo ago

Self Hosting A Firefox Sync Server
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/documentation/linux/selfhosting-a-firefox-sync-server.html?utm_source=rss

#firefox #mozilla #selfhosting #server #syncing

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Self Hosting A Firefox Sync Server

Short post detailing how to self host a Firefox sync server so that you can sync tabs, history and bookmarks between browsers (mostly) using your own infrastructure.

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· 9mo ago

New #Documentation: Weihrauch HW100 Gas Leak
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/documentation/shooting/weihrauch-hw100-air-leak.html?utm_source=rss

#hw100 #shooting #weihrauch

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· 9mo ago

New #Blog: Playing Around With Woodpecker CI
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/general/playing-with-woodpecker-ci.html?utm_source=rss

#containers #docker #general #gitlab #telegraf #watchtower #woodpecker-ci

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· 10mo ago

Migrating Our Music from Subsonic to Gonic
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/general/replacing-subsonic-with-gonic.html?utm_source=rss

#gonic #migration #music #subsonic

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· 10mo ago

A Week Without Medicinal Gummies
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/health/spending-a-week-without-gummies.html?utm_source=rss

#health #medicinalcannabis #thoughts

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· 10mo ago

New #Documentation: Enabling Fingerprint Authentication On Linux
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/documentation/linux/enabling-fingerprint-authentication-on-linux.html?utm_source=rss

#authentication #biometrics #fedora #fingerprint #framework #linux #thinkpad #ubuntu

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· 11mo ago

Automatically Backing Up Ente Photos
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/documentation/general/automating-backup-of-photos-from-ente.html?utm_source=rss

#backup #containers #ente #kubernetes #photos

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· 11mo ago

New #Blog: Setting up Anti Hot Linking Protections for ChatGPT
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/general/blocking-chatgpt-from-hotlinking-to-my-media.html?utm_source=rss

#ai #chatgpt #genai #hotlinking #llm #perplexityai #theinternet

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· 12mo ago

New #Blog: Marking 20 Years of Blogging
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/general/marking-20-years-of-blogging.html?utm_source=rss

#sitenews #sitehistory

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· 12mo ago

New #Documentation: Stripping and Cleaning a SMK XS26 Air Pistol
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/documentation/shooting/smk-xs26-stripdown.html?utm_source=rss

#shooting

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· 12mo ago

New #Blog: ID Cards Have Come Around Again
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/privacy/id-cards-come-around-again.html?utm_source=rss

#idcards #privacy #unitedkingdom

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ID Cards Have Come Around Again

The government has announced its intention to introduce a new Digital ID card, dubbed the "BritCard". This card, the Government contends, will help reduce illegal immigration (conveniently helping the

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· 13mo ago

Building An Air Rifle Target Back-Stop
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/house-stuff/building-an-air-rifle-target-backstop.html?utm_source=rss

#building #diy #housestuff #shooting

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· 7mo ago

Blocking Crawls From Cloudflare's Browser Crawl Endpoint
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/documentation/general/blocking-cloudflares-automated-crawl-endpoint.html?utm_source=rss

#bots #bunnycdn #cloudflare #nginx #openresty

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Blocking Crawls From Cloudflare's Browser Crawl Endpoint

Short post detailing how to identify and block requests from Cloudflare's browser rendering service.

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· 6mo ago

New #Blog: Adding human.json To My Site
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/general/adding-human-json-to-my-site.html?utm_source=rss

#general #sitenews

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Adding human.json To My Site

Short post about adding a human.json to my site

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· 6mo ago

Using CSS to Add A Reading Progress Bar To My Site
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/documentation/general/adding-a-css-reading-progress-indicator.html?utm_source=rss

#css #html #webdesign

Using CSS to Add A Reading Progress Bar To My Site

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Using CSS to Add A Reading Progress Bar To My Site

Short post describing how to use CSS's animation-timeline to add a reading progress indicator to webpages so that users can see how far through the page they've scrolled

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· 2mo ago

New #Blog: Building A Bench For Our Campervan Author: Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/house-stuff/building-a-campervan-bench.html?utm_source=rss #campervan #diy #sofa #van #vehicles #wood

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Building A Bench For Our Campervan

Short post describing creating a padded bench for our campervan

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· 2mo ago

New #Blog: Looking At Tarpit and LLM Maze Stats Author: Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/the-internet/the-efficacy-of-tarpits-in-2026.html?utm_source=rss #ai #analysis #llm #tarpit

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Looking At Tarpit and LLM Maze Stats

A high level analysis of tarpit performance in 2026. This post looks at my stats for my longstanding SSH tarpits but also at my much more recent AI Crawler maze.