I do have a smartphone, but like me, it's too old to accept the  new software required for setting 2FA in most web sites, such as GitHub, GitLab, google etc. So...

I just installed pihole on my webserver.  This was a little complicated by the fact that it was already running apach2 to serve up some webpages and this is not officially supported by pihole.  It di however install it's site under /var/www/html/$pihole-stuff so I just had to make the webserver see those pages as well as the virtual hosts.  I had disabled 000-default.conf (for reasons that I now cannot remember) but re-enabling it meant I could access the pihole admin pages with no problems.

A Python script to convert a decimal fraction like 0.125 to a regular fraction like 1/8. Why you a
sk?  I wrote this as an aid to programming a microcontroller, in this case a 68HC11. Ineeded to derive temperature from a thermister sensor using a formula like:
t = 1.234x + 12 but didn't want use to use floating pint maths as this increased the code size too much.

How To Make a Model Hawker Hurricane

I sometimes work for Autodromo, a model making company, and we are often tasked with making model aircraft for educational purposes. These are scale models built in such a way to be robust to stand up to handling by children. The models are truly to scale but may lack much of the detail that would render them prone to breakage. For instance, although elevators may be required  work there will be no control wires but instead a spring arrangement is used to give them tension and self centering after manual movement to demontrate their action.

Here's some examples.

Hawker Hurricane MkII. Win span 14 ft. For a client who uses it as an educational tool.

Shorts Sunderland in the Pembroke Dock Museum Wing span again about 13ft

De Haviland DH9.  Wingspan 14ft. Now in the impoerial War Museum, Duxford.

We've diversified from aircraft. A Sherman tank, 1/4 scale. Now in the tank Museum Bovington, Dorset

http://www.autodromo.co.uk for more and better images.

I broke this website and now lots of stuff is missing.

I decided to upgrade from 2.8 to 2.12. The site wasn't using https and a lot of security updates would have been missing. Of course one can't do that in one step; all the intermediate upgrades need doing so that the DB changes are correctly applied. Somewhere along the way the theme got screwed and I decided to nuke the site and start again. All the data are backed up and I'm slowly add back the blog entries. Looking back though many are outdated and irrelevent; I'll ikely not recreate those. The posts are no not in the original order, which does not matter to me at all.

I mostly use the blog as a personal memory aid, it's the only place I can make notes and be guaranted to find them 10 years later. The caveat being that I don't break the code of course.