https://1nplace.com/blogs Notes on building, operating, and improving software systems. en-gb https://1nplace.com/blogs/windows-10-esu-and-windows-11-24h2-deadline-13-october-2026 https://1nplace.com/blogs/windows-10-esu-and-windows-11-24h2-deadline-13-october-2026 Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Commercial Windows 10 ESU Year 1 ends on 13 October 2026, the same day Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro stop receiving updates. The device inventory decides which deadline applies. https://1nplace.com/blogs/cyber-security-and-resilience-bill-small-it-suppliers https://1nplace.com/blogs/cyber-security-and-resilience-bill-small-it-suppliers Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill only regulates medium and large MSPs directly, but small UK IT suppliers will feel it through contracts, supplier questionnaires, and incident timelines. https://1nplace.com/blogs/cyber-essentials-scope-for-small-teams https://1nplace.com/blogs/cyber-essentials-scope-for-small-teams Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cyber Essentials scope for a small UK team is an honest list of devices, cloud services, and accounts - not a firewall checkbox or a forgotten spreadsheet. https://1nplace.com/blogs/introducing-1nplace-encrypt https://1nplace.com/blogs/introducing-1nplace-encrypt Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A local-first AES-256 workspace for passwords, notes, sheets, and files. No cloud account, no sync server, and no pretending privacy is someone else’s problem. https://1nplace.com/blogs/introducing-1nplace-cmdb https://1nplace.com/blogs/introducing-1nplace-cmdb Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A configuration management database for MSPs and mid-size IT: relationships, impact, discovery, and reporting without pretending to be a full ITSM suite. https://1nplace.com/blogs/my-journey https://1nplace.com/blogs/my-journey Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A decade around tech products, a bootcamp, and two years of engineering: curiosity beat the pitch, and shipping beat the slide deck. https://1nplace.com/blogs/loud-integrations https://1nplace.com/blogs/loud-integrations Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Silent webhook failures are not resilience. They are delayed incidents with worse context and a longer blast radius. https://1nplace.com/blogs/boring-pipelines-on-purpose https://1nplace.com/blogs/boring-pipelines-on-purpose Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The best path to production is the one nobody has to reinvent at 11pm, with the same steps, failure messages, and rollback story every time. https://1nplace.com/blogs/building-this-site https://1nplace.com/blogs/building-this-site Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT A hand-built Vite, TypeScript, and Tailwind site meant to look intentional, load cleanly, and show how I actually structure front-end work.