Reluctant technologist. CAD & Technical Lead/nerd at London Ambulance Service. Tech stuff, NHS/999 stuff, occasional Excel witchcraft. Views, regrettably, my own.

Cloudflare Pages as an asset host for a Rails app

Today I learned: you can ‘build’ a Rails app in Cloudflare Pages to use it as an asset host. Start by creating a new Cloudflare Pages site and point it at your Rails app’s SCM repository. (You could do this the long way around with Direct Uploads, but who wants to bother with that?) Set your build command to rails assets:precompile, and tell it that...

GitHub won't let me turn off 2FA

OK, OK, look, I don’t want to turn off 2FA on GitHub. Obviously. But on the page in my account settings where I might do such a thing, I now see this warning: Now then. A few clarifications, because the most annoying kind of person will read this blog post in bad faith: I don’t want to turn off 2FA Open source software is a...

How to Save a Life: my EMF talk is online

As I blogged about in June, I went to Electromagnetic Field this year, and did a fun little talk about my day job. The video of that talk is now online and you can watch it if you want to know what I do all day. It’s also on YouTube if you like YouTube. That’ll be all!

I don't want to stream the Olympics

Remember when everything didn’t have to be done over IP? This, I will admit, is a rant that I have been boring my friends with at the pub for a long time (sorry, Alice). The Olympics has brought it to a head, but this complaint is one I have had ever since the Streaming Revolution took hold. I like it when television comes into my...

Power over Ethernet for the smart home

We’ve talked before about how annoying I find smart home stuff, and one of the key things I’ve moaned about previously is the fact I need eight hubs to make all of the stuff in my house talk to each other. I moved recently, and had one of those “why didn’t I think of this sooner?” moments whilst unplugging all of that gubbins and plugging...