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New Year, New Something That Rhymes with Year

Nix McRetro // 19th January 2024 // Nature, News

New Year, New Something That Rhymes with Year

Technically I’m still the same, but my hammock is weirdly outdoors. For the first time in years I have an outdoor area. I’m no longer trapped in a box. I hate apartments. At the same time, urban sprawl isn’t good from an environmental standpoint either. Maybe the answer lies in... Continue reading

Maintenance Complete - User Is Online!

Nix McRetro // 18th December 2023 // News

CG-NAT defeated! The Cloudflare Argo Tunnel works and has done so for about a week. However, due to the way the tech behind it all works… …I might have inadvertently locked myself out, with help from botnets spamming my Wordpress login page of course! No problem, it gave me a... Continue reading

Downtime - Planned Maintenance

Nix McRetro // 28th November 2023 // News

Here comes the downtime. As my NBN regresses to 4G home internet. Expect this site to be down for at least a few weeks while I get my head around consumer grade network address translation or CG-NAT for short. Theoretically it should be as simple as pressing a few different... Continue reading

HTTP/0.9 Request and Other One-Liners

Nix McRetro // 26th November 2023 // Modems, Nature, Raspberry Pi

A quick look at HTTP requests on really old browsers. HTTP/0.9, or just HTTP, was a very simple one-line protocol. Mozilla has a great write up on it. It was interesting to try and get a modern day CDN - Cloudflare in my case, to play nice with browsers such... Continue reading

Great News, I'm Transgender!

Nix McRetro // 18th November 2023 // News

Exactly one month ago, on the 18th October 2023, I came to the realisation that I am transgender. Two weeks later I had an appointment with an endocrinologist. And one week after that a prescription for estradiol valerate 6 mg a day. Thank you informed consent. Gender identity is an... Continue reading