Using AI to get back to blogging
How AI helped me return to technical writing, migrate an old WordPress site to Astro and Cloudflare Pages, and publish useful records without pretending the machine did the work or made the decisions.
Written as the work happened
Technical notes
Older posts retain their original publication dates. Newer notes cover infrastructure projects, automation and practical use of AI.
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Veeam Cloud Connect RevocationStatusUnknown: missing intermediates
How I traced a RevocationStatusUnknown error to missing Let's Encrypt Generation Y intermediates in two tenant-side Windows machine certificate stores.
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Status Credit Calculator: From a Linux VM to Cloudflare
How my first AI-assisted application grew from a Python and Flask tool on a Linux VM into a Cloudflare-hosted calculator with route validation, resilient caching and cash-fare comparisons.
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FileDrop: Short-lived file transfers on Cloudflare
FileDrop is an open-source file-transfer tool I use to send files or collect them through short-lived links, without asking the other person to create an account.
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Veeam Agent for Windows – Basic Setup
In April 2015, version 1 of Veeam Endpoint Backup Free was released. Over the years this product has had many improvements and in 2017 was renamed Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows when v2 was released. Version 3 went GA in January 2019 and in Feb 2020 v4 was GA following by v4.1 in August 2020. […]
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VeeamOn 2020
Never been to Vegas? Neither have I, so get in quick and grab your ticket for VeeamOn 2020. The early bird pricing of USD$450 is valid until the 31st Jan 2020. Even if you’re not 100% sure yet, grab a ticket and you can always get a refund before March 4. This will be my fourth […]
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Veeam Vanguard Summit 2019
The Veeam Vanguard summit is an annual a gathering of all the Vanguards from around the globe. This year, and last, Prague played host to this excellent event. The agenda is from Monday to Thursday, however the event starts Monday evening with the welcome reception so there is some time for catching
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Veeam Vanguard Summit 2019 – Pre-Summit
Prague is a long way from my home town of Brisbane. Even the most direct flights, with Emirates via Dubai, is just over 21 hours or flying time! So when travelling that far, I try and spend a few extra days to make the most of the travel. So this year I opted for a […]
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Veeam Backup for Office 365 v4
Veeam Backup for Office 365 v4 GA build 4.0.0.1345 was released on 26 November 2019. Having learned of all the new features in October at the Veeam Vanguard Summit, I was certainly looking forward to this new version. Some of the new features include: Object storage support. You now have unlimited s
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Veeam Vanguard Summit 2019 – The Journey Begins
So here I am sitting at my local airport, Brisbane, waiting for my first flight on my way to Prague for the Veeam Vanguard Summit. I can’t believe it’s here already, it seems like only a few weeks ago I came back from VeeamOn in Miami and then the VeeamOn Forum in Sydney! This is […]