Welcome to my blog! Here you’ll find posts about my adventures in tech tinkering, homelab experiments, maker projects, and cycling escapades. Whether I’m setting up servers, building something cool, or hitting the trails on two wheels, I document the journey here.

“Test blog from iPhone"

This is a very short post to test writing posts from iPhone that include images.

By Jon Archer

Test blog from iPhone

This is a very short post to test writing posts from iPhone. Using full git workflow as always.

By Jon Archer

Cycling to Carnforth via the Trough of Bowland

A cycling journey to Carnforth via the scenic Trough of Bowland, one of Lancashire’s most beautiful routes.

By Jon Archer

2024 Cycling Recap

A scenic summer evening ride along the converted railway paths from Bury to Rawtenstall, taking in the beautiful Kirklees and Irwell trails.

By Jon Archer

Cycling the Old Railway Lines: Bury to Rawtenstall

A scenic summer evening ride along the converted railway paths from Bury to Rawtenstall, taking in the beautiful Kirklees and Irwell trails.

By Jon Archer

Cycling Bolton Abbey to Burnsall: An Impromptu Adventure in the Yorkshire Dales

When plans change unexpectedly, sometimes the best adventures emerge - a beautiful cycling journey through the Yorkshire Dales from Bolton Abbey to Burnsall.

By Jon Archer

Terraforming Serverless

In my day job recently I’ve been rewriting AWS deployment infrastructure-as-code taking Serverless-Framework and raw Cloudformation transforming it into Terraform.

By Jon Archer

Blogging With Best Intentions

I’ve always set out with the best intentions for this site, to regularly write posts about things I’m up to, found out or whatever.

By Jon Archer

GoingOffGrid Pt2

The day after the Tesla PowerWall install and I’ve configured the device in Home Assistant with some rudimentary additions to existing dashboards.

By Jon Archer