Back when I made my first connection to the Internet, it was normal to ask for enough addresses to give a public IP to every computer in the organisation (and then some because they could only be allocated on classful octet boundaries). The organisation I worked for ended up with

Just about the only really good thing that came out of the pandemic for me was habitually going for walks with people to chat and exchange ideas rather than "going for a coffee" or "a beer" in crowded places. This works for me as I do my best thinking whilst

I hit an awkward problem that I've never hit before, last week. After a weekend at a hackathon with great Wifi, I checked back into my codebase to do a bit more work from the place I was staying and found all my cloud hosts were now rejecting port 22.