blog – Page 3 – Ben Helps . me

Pi-hole pitfalls

So I figured I’d just squeeze a pi-hole install on my tiny Ubuntu VM that’s already doing node-red and OpenVPN. How hard could it be? It turns out, kinda hard. Or at least, it doesn’t always install straightforwardly. After install on a standard Ubuntu 18.04.4 VM, I had to fiddle with www-data/pihole user/group permissions, as…
Read more

ben 2020-11-21 0

Changelogs in tinker code

One of the many things that my current job is impressing upon me is that even mundane things need to be properly documented, so that it can be done by others if you’re not available. With that in mind I’ve set myself a couple of tasks: 1. to add versions to all of my code…
Read more

ben 2020-11-14 0