https://pratley.au/ Networks, code, and the occasional ISP built for fun. en-au Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://pratley.au/rebuilding-rfspager-laravel-to-go-and-our-own-pocsag-decoder/ https://pratley.au/rebuilding-rfspager-laravel-to-go-and-our-own-pocsag-decoder/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT RFSPager ran on Laravel, Horizon, Pusher and a per-dongle rtl_fm into multimon-ng pipe babysat in a tmux session. I replaced the backend with one Go binary and multimon-ng with a POCSAG decoder of our own: real BCH error correction, gap-aware resync, and one dongle for both services. Here is the rebuild, and the numbers. https://pratley.au/reversing-mikrotiks-silent-patch-the-routeros-7-23-4-fix-they-wouldnt-explain/ https://pratley.au/reversing-mikrotiks-silent-patch-the-routeros-7-23-4-fix-they-wouldnt-explain/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT MikroTik shipped a silent, cross-branch RouterOS security patch and declined to say what it fixed. If the fixed binaries ship worldwide, the diff is the disclosure — so I reversed the delta, from NPK extraction and symbol-level diffing to the RSA signature-check and mtget bugs behind 7.23.4. https://pratley.au/au-licensing-rules-review-2025-submission/ https://pratley.au/au-licensing-rules-review-2025-submission/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT I sent auDA's Policy Advisory Panel a submission on the .au Licensing Rules Review, arguing that the allocation rule enabling large-scale domain speculation should simply be deleted. https://pratley.au/my-first-isp-turning-it-up-to-11-unlocking-the-mx150-and-vmx/ https://pratley.au/my-first-isp-turning-it-up-to-11-unlocking-the-mx150-and-vmx/ Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Alright, you made it this far—so let’s turn this thing up to 11. https://pratley.au/my-first-isp-juniper-mx250-funsies/ https://pratley.au/my-first-isp-juniper-mx250-funsies/ Wed, 08 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT So uhh, what if I told you you could get a fully functional Juniper MX150 router for $400-600 AUD? 1/10th the eBay price of the MX150! https://pratley.au/octodns-github-actions-cloudflare-digital-ocean-redundant-multi-cloud-dns-hosting-for-free/ https://pratley.au/octodns-github-actions-cloudflare-digital-ocean-redundant-multi-cloud-dns-hosting-for-free/ Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT So - DNS. That ol' thing. Without it, the internet would just not function for many - having to remember all those numbers. https://pratley.au/building-and-releasing-a-mobile-app-lessons-learnt/ https://pratley.au/building-and-releasing-a-mobile-app-lessons-learnt/ Tue, 12 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT So over the last 3 months on the Central Coast, NSW, Australia, we have been locked down and not allowed to leave the house. What better time than now to dus… https://pratley.au/building-laravel-8-for-production-release-with-horizon-and-octane-using-github-actions/ https://pratley.au/building-laravel-8-for-production-release-with-horizon-and-octane-using-github-actions/ Sun, 11 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT So you have built a shiny new web app and disabled personal teams, it's time to build and deploy! https://pratley.au/disabling-personal-teams-in-laravel-8-and-jetstream/ https://pratley.au/disabling-personal-teams-in-laravel-8-and-jetstream/ Wed, 05 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT I’ve started building a new portal for work, after many iterations we have settled on Laravel 8 and Jetstream. https://pratley.au/how-to-deploy-ansible-awx-on-ubuntu-with-microk8s/ https://pratley.au/how-to-deploy-ansible-awx-on-ubuntu-with-microk8s/ Tue, 13 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT Deploying AWX on MicroK8s with the AWX Operator — a working install on Ubuntu after a day of fighting the docs. https://pratley.au/huawei-extreme-networks-delivering-l2-services-over-an-l3-routed-core/ https://pratley.au/huawei-extreme-networks-delivering-l2-services-over-an-l3-routed-core/ Thu, 06 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT Back in 2014 at $dayjob, we built a network for the future (or so we thought!). This contained multiple Cisco 6500 chassis with Supervisor Engine 720 & WS-67…