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The website of Ben Tasker, IT Manager, Linux Specialist and software developer. I'm based in Suffolk in the UK but work with customers worldwide
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Posts: 10
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Unclogging A Washing Machine When The Pump Cover Is Jammed
https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/house-stuff/bosch-washer-outlet-clogged-and-wont-unscrew.html
Published: September 13, 2024 19:17
We've got a Bosch Serie 4 washing machine (specifically, a WAN24100GB). It recently stopped draining and instead just sat with the pump running. On most front-loading washing machines there's a cover providing access to the pump housing so that blockages…
Building a Raspberry Pi Cycling Computer
Published: September 3, 2024 18:34
I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, a fitness fanatic. I always assumed that I'd start to exercise more with age, but rather than getting round to it I... err... got round. That said, I'm not entirely ambivalent and I've tracked my daily steps…
Migrating a HTML based site to Markdown
Published: August 29, 2024 18:43
In 2014, I wrote a small Static Site Generator (SSG) in PHP. At the time, Hugo had only seen a few public releases and both it and Jekyll were written in languages (Go and Ruby, respectively) that I wasn't quite as familiar with. Both were more complex…
Mini Cooper: Tire Pressure Warning Reset
https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/documentation/vehicles/resetting-a-tpms-alert-on-a-mini.html
Published: August 26, 2024 14:50
One of the features that Mini's include is a Tyre Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS). These use sensors in the wheel and are supposed to warn if a tyre's pressure gets too low. Unfortunately, they're known to be a little temperamental and can throw false…
Should've Bought A Playstation
https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opinion/microsoft-find-new-ways-to-be-rubbish.html
Published: August 24, 2024 14:22
Last year, after we ordered an Xbox, Amazon tried to leave us with the bill despite it being stolen from within their fulfilment chain. Whilst that wasn't, in any way, Microsoft's fault it also wasn't the best introduction to the world of Xbox. Admittedly,…
Automating against Link Rot
Published: August 12, 2024 12:21
As the web has aged, the issue of Link rot has increased, with links silently breaking as sites and services fall by the wayside. Although it's always been a problem, it feels like it's been more visible recently. From people abandoning Twitter to…
Running Linkwarden in Kubernetes
Published: August 11, 2024 12:19
I recently decided to actually do something about an idea that I've been turning over for a bit. I'll write a proper post on that later, but in order to do it, I needed to be running some form of link archiving solution (i.e. I needed some form of…
Building My Own Streaming TV Station
Published: August 7, 2024 18:50
Recently a colleague mentioned having seen a Youtuber set up their own home cable TV channel. This struck me as quite a good idea: I sometimes want to have the TV on in the background (the background noise helps the dogs settle) but often struggle to pick…
Deploying InfluxDB and Telegraf to Monitor Kubernetes
Published: July 28, 2024 15:11
I run a small kubernetes cluster at home, which I originally set up as somewhere to experiment with things. Because it started out as a playground, I never bothered to set up monitoring. However, as time has passed, I've ended up dropping more…
Laravel Image Validation Fails on Large Images
Published: July 20, 2024 15:22
Last weekend, I wrote about deploying Shotshare into Kubernetes and, so far, I've been pretty happy with the result. A couple of days ago, though, I ran into an issue which prevented me from uploading an image from my phone. Playing around showed that…