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A small blog, served from the edge. - By Richard Alpagot

  • Steam Frame: impressions a week on

    2026-10-23

    Coming from a Valve Index: lighter, wireless and brilliantly hackable, but the fit feels cost-cut, the native catalogue is thin, and right now it's best as a streaming headset with a full Linux desktop bolted on.

  • Are we going to see a resurgence in physical video media?

    2026-09-25

    Disc sales are falling more slowly than at any point since 2010, 4K UHD is growing, and streaming just moved 4K behind its top tier. So why is nobody selling the premium angle, and why does a Blu-ray player now cost more because of AI data centres?

  • UHD delivery: why streaming won, and why I still miss the dish

    2026-07-09

    The industry moved UHD delivery to the internet, and as a CDN engineer I helped. But satellite had the pipes for 4K and even 8K years before streaming did, and now that 98-inch TVs cost £1,200, the resolution question is suddenly interesting again.

  • There is going to be a Minecraft Dungeons 2 in September!

    2026-06-17

    I'm excited, me and my kids loved this game!

  • Setting Up Pi-hole at home: DNS Ad Blocking, automation and secure global management.

    2026-06-14

    A complete Pi-hole setup on a Raspberry Pi 4: hardware choices, installation, cron automation, and a real Let's Encrypt certificate on a domain you own.

  • Writing on edgeblog

    2026-04-26

    A user guide for authoring, managing, and publishing posts on edgeblog, from a blank Markdown file to a live URL.

  • How I built edgeblog

    2026-04-25

    A walkthrough of building a personal blog that runs entirely on Fastly Compute, from empty starter kit to live site at blog.alpagot.net.

  • Hello, edge

    2026-04-24

    Why this blog runs entirely on Fastly Compute, and what that means in practice.

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