Welcome to whizzy.org, the personal website of Will Cooke (aka 8none1).

About Will Cooke

Will Cooke is a software engineer, engineering manager and Linux developer based in the United Kingdom. He works at Chainguard on the OS team, co-hosts the Late Night Linux podcast, and was previously Director of Ubuntu Desktop at Canonical.

This site collects articles about software development, Linux, Ubuntu, Home Assistant, solar energy, self-hosting and open source. Learn more about Will Cooke or read the recent posts below.

Finally moving to a static site

Amazon have made some changes to the (admittedly generous) Alexa AWS credits programme which made me think about the services that I run there and how to reduce my bill a bit. This WP blog was hosted on a t2.micro instance running Apache, MySQL, PHP, and WordPress. You need to... [Read More]