What are we doing? This is how to add a wildcard Lets Encrypt certificate to your Synology NAS using Cloudflare for DNS authentication. It is based on the excellent acme.sh. I honestly recommend you read through the docs for acme.sh first. Most of what we are doing is well documented over there. In particular I would look at: Synology NAS Guide using deployhooks to update the NAS If you find this useful PLEASE consider donating to acme.

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www.thesysadmiral.co.uk is dead I used to have a blog on Google’s Blogger service. I was terrible at keeping it up-to-date and I think this was down to two things: I found Blogger a clunky tool to use for creating a blog My frontend skills are weak To address those things I decided to move my blog to something that I was comfortable using and to improve my frontend skills.

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Recently I changed jobs and as ever one of the first things I did was wipe my new laptop and install Linux Mint. I really like Linux Mint for it’s ease of setup but this time I hit an issue where my wireless connection was unreliable. I did all of the usual things: checked with the IT team for issues made do with a LAN cable refused to believe it was my OS… In the end I decided to check online for anyone else having issues with wifi/drivers on Linux Mint.

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You may, like me, have become quite interested in Continuous Delivery and all of the associated ‘things’ - agile, devops, kanban but if, like me, you don’t work at the Google’s or Netflix’s of this world you may sometimes wonder “Where to start?” That conundrum can be made more difficult to fathom out if you spend the majority of your working time on operational issues. You become caught in a vicious cycle of wanting to improve things so you have less operational issues but the operational issues prevent you from devoting constructive time to improving things.

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 Hopefully you will have seen the recent press around a discovered security vulnerability that affects the Linux operating system or more specifically the BASH shell and systems that make use of that shell. Maybe you saw the pretty cool logo around recently. (Other logos have been floating around too but this is my fave.) BASH BASH (Bourne Again SHell) is a command processor. It is where you type commands you want to run and the shell takes what you type and interprets it and gives you back an output or does something.

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a.k.a. Guess who’s back in the motherf***ing house?! I’m back. After much thought and deliberation and all round laziness I am back from the sabbatical I had taken from blogging. By sabbatical I mean not being bothered and by blogging I am referring to my 2 posts on my failed blog here. I say failure because I personally consider it to be such. I was attempting to blog about something that I feel passionately about but am not an expert in and in my opinion it came across as something quite pretentious.

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