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 been Rock solid. Zero issues. No …
01 Jan 2021

Building a Calculator

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

Redhat abandoning CentOS

My thoughts on Redhat’s announcement that they’re abandoning CentOS. Facts. CentOS is a binary compatible RHEL build. CentOS was doing just …
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 how well Intel was doing back …
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 $20, and yet, the bill …
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 Wilson aluminium racquets …
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 compromises (the most complained …
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 Lambda team. I’m really …