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Retro Tech Repairs – MSI K7D Master-L
One of my occasional hobbies is restoring vintage electronics, mostly computers. What I do with them after I’ve mended them all completely depends. If it’s interesting to me and I’ve got the space, I will keep it. Otherwise, I will usually sell them or gift them to friends who would enjoy some of these bits…
Rebuilding my Porsche 911 M97.01 engine – Pt3
“Where’s the engine, Ciaran? Is it in the car yet?!” I hear you ask. I suppose I ought to stop driving it about and give you the long-winded answer, as that’s probably what you’re here to read! It’s in the car. It’s brutal. A couple of tweaks need to be made before I send it…
Rebuilding my Porsche 911 M97.01 engine – Pt2
On the last installment, I left you hanging with the next visit – the machinist. I took my poorly crank case halves to Jonathan at Stanwood Engineering. I took the recommendation from Duncan at Westwood Liners, as he had his hillclimb Cayman 3.9 competition engine built there. Immediately, I felt like I was in good…
Rebuilding my Porsche 911 M97.01 engine – Pt1
Let’s get the bad news out of the way first. My engine had previously been rebuilt by a reputable firm to solve the “common” bore scoring issue seen by a small proportion of 3.8 litre M97.01 engines. Fast forward a few years, and I start getting exhaust gases into the coolant expansion tank. Nothing really…
Brian Duffy – Web Edition
How the mighty have fallen. Once upon a time, I was an expert and wizard at hosting things on the internet. Now I’m back to the humble beginnings of accidentally deleting the production database for my personal blog. Well sort of, I am just too lazy to restore a backup, which brings me to the…
Lessons from Containerising Monolithic Apps
Sometimes removing the little sanity you have to culture a bigger organisational change and engineering paradigm is worth it When I joined $COMPANY as a principal DevOps architect, I was shown around a couple of server cabinets. My boss pointed to these physical things called servers. “That’s an AMQP server. That’s a Zabbix server. That’s…