Github Actions and Workflows

Series: [Github Workflows]

As per my Hello Again post I’m looking at automating some of my content creation. The current state of play If you’ve looked before, you’ll know I use Hugo to build my site. That means I need to ask Hugo to build my site whenever I add some more content, which currently means: Get Hugo to build the content Update my git repo with the new content Push the repo to GitHub GitHub fires a webhook that tells my site to pull down new content Don’t shoot me, this was all build pre-workflow days.
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Hello again

It’s been a while Erm…. that’s an understatement, it’s been 5 years since I last put anything on here and it really is time I get back to it. In an effort to do that I’m looking at how to make it easier for me to update whilst I’m on the go, so expect some content around that as I progress with it, watch this space as they say…

Juniper vMX CentOS i40e Driver Issues

vMX - Nice if you can make it work I like Juniper’s vMX product, I like JunOS and vMX makes it much more affordable to run inside your network. What I don’t like is the rather sketchy documentation that gives the impression they’d rather you don’t run vMX. It’s clear that Ubuntu is their primary platform along with VMware now. They list support for Redhat and CentOS, but with CentOS at least there are some issues that the documentation doesn’t cover.
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Negotiating With A Threenager

We Don’t Negotiate With Terrorists or Threenagers Now don’t get me wrong, we really can’t complain with George, he doesn’t have many tantrums at all. I’d like to lay claim to that being down to me, but in reality it’s Karen and her DNA. Today however was one of those, “How can I be so heartless?” moments, as today there was no negotiation, it really was “Our way or our way”.
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IPv6 at Home - It Should Not Be This Hard

5Ghz Here We Come A few months ago I changed my home router from a Mikrotik RB2011 router to a Linksys WRT1900ACSv2 - Not a particularly cheap router, it’s still £ even now. I changed because I wanted 5Ghz wireless as the 2.4Ghz around here is massively congested, plus I wanted some faster speeds for copying photos to my NAS. I’ve got Gigabit wired to most rooms, but I just can’t be bothered to find a cable most of the time to hook up to - I don’t usually have one long enough at home, work tends to stay at work these days.
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