blog.awill.me

blog.awill.me

02 Jan 2021

Moving to enterprise networking gear

I’ve been rocking a fairly high-end, though consumer-grade, Asus RT-AC88u router for the last 5 years. It’s ...
01 Jan 2021

Building a Calculator

My first job after university was designing analogue circuits and programming their firmware. I skipped larger through-h...
21 Dec 2020

Redhat abandoning CentOS

My thoughts on Redhat’s announcement that they’re abandoning CentOS. Facts. CentOS is a binary compatible R...
03 Dec 2020

New Computer

My current PC is 6 years old. It’s surprising it is still working as well as it does. It’s a testament to ho...
10 Jan 2018

Comcast

As I’ve lived at my new house for 12 months, you can guess that my Comcast XFinity bill increased. It increased by...
14 Sep 2017

My Tennis Racquet History

Over the last 20+ years I’ve played with many different tennis racquets. As a child I remember 2 different junior ...
14 Sep 2017

Pixel XL

Starting with the Nexus 4, I’ve owned every single Nexus phone. They were cheap, high spec devices with few compro...
21 Jul 2017

AWS Lambda

After two and a half years running the back end storage data plane of Amazon S3, I’ve decided to join the Amazon L...