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Notes from the test bench.

Written companions to the videos — what I tested, what surprised me, and whether it's worth your money. Longer thoughts that don't fit a YouTube description.

BLOG · 15 Aug 2026 · 5 min read

Safeline WAF - Is just WAFfle?

What a WAF actually does, why it's not the firewall you already have, and why I put SafeLine in front of my own homelab — including the part where I actually tried to break it and checked where it phones home, instead of just repeating what everyone else said.

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BLOG · 15 Jul 2026 · 2 min read

The £290 ARM Windows Mini PC That Actually Makes Sense

The Lenovo IdeaCentre Mini 01Q8X10 pairs a Snapdragon chip with 32GB of RAM and — unusually at this price — a second M.2 slot you can actually use. Here's the write-up to go with the video.

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