Last Updated - 23rd of June 2025
Who am I?
Husband, network guy, self hosted / Local Hosted newbie, generally a good cook, fan of home automation using home assistant, IPv6 novice, Ansible beginner and cat dad.
Living Manchester in the north west of England, UK.
Working as part of a small infrastructure team specialising in network connectivity for an international office equipment manufacturer
What am I reading?
Started reading The annihilation score by Charles Stross.
See my reading list at Rambling Readers for more details
What am I playing?
I'm back to playing an old game, Assissins Creed: Syndicate. They just released a 60fps patch for it, all 30+GB, and I must say it does look pretty amazing on a 4K tv.
What am I working on?
I've started to move my blog from Hugo to BSSG so you'll absolutely see some changes to the design over the next few weeks as I work on migrating all of my old content into the new tool but I'm expecting a big bang when everything's ready to go.
I'm back to learning about Ansible as I further work towards cleaning up our home lab services. Blog posts will hopefully follow as I find things that make sense to turn into a blog post
We're still reviewing our use of public "free" online services and considering a more to more self hosted or regionally hosted with smaller providers, whichever feels like the best fit for the job.
Now we have a home ISP who issues us with a fixed IPv6 prefix, I'm moving as many of our local services to use v6 as possible. Learning as I go. The blog itself runs on a server at home that has dual stack but I'm also testing with a few v6 only services to see how things go.
How do I contact you?
You can find me on many of the socials but I tend to use the Fediverse more than any other where you can find me as https://bsd.network/@pugmiester where I rattle on about solar and home automation although I'm hoping I'll be doing a little more of that over here so I can get some use out of my new (as of April 2023) blog.
This page was inspired by an idea from Derek Sivers