James Grogan

I enjoy writing software and live in the West of Ireland. My main interests are:

• sustainability
• free software and open science
• creative coding - particularly with audio and graphics.

Recent posts

• Down in the Pi-hole
  28 Mar 2026

  Debugging Pi-hole v6 DNS resolution failures by diving into dnsmasq internals and FTL source code.

• End of year recap 2025
  22 Dec 2025

  Personal and technical retrospective on 2025 — goals, projects, and plans for 2026.

• Switching to Emacs — 18 months in
  22 Dec 2025

  Reflections on 18 months using Emacs as a daily driver after switching from VS Code.