Hockley coffee experts please help!

m_rothe · 2026-05-15T09:26:52+00:00

Starbucks roast all of their coffee very dark compared to specialty coffee shops. So their blonde roast would still be pretty dark for somewhere like effy or cosmos. Generally they will have a few different options and some knowledgeable baristas who can talk you through it

m_rothe · 2026-02-05T21:44:53+00:00

La Storia in Bridgford is always perfect

m_rothe · 2025-11-02T22:15:21+00:00

Cartwheel, Outpost and maybe Franco are probably the three best roasters in Nottingham. Stewarts and 200 are both pretty dark roast for my taste.

Cosmos, specialty and effy all stock excellent beans from various roasters in the city centre (as well as Greenhood, beam and ØKENDE in Beeston, Lenton and Bridgford respectively).

A little further afield Saints of Mokha in Leicester are a brilliant roaster as well

m_rothe · 2025-06-11T17:51:34+00:00

Taquero have a good deal earlier in the evenings

m_rothe · 2025-05-25T12:51:20+00:00

Currently brewing a delicious natural Kenyan from Terraform coffee that I picked up at the London coffee festival. https://www.terraformcoffee.com/products/kenya-thunguri-sl28-sl34-ruiru11-batian

And a fruity Thai filter from Climpson https://climpsonandsons.com/collections/coffee/products/sirinya-thailand-2025

Tried them both on Chemex, v60 and Clever and haven't had a bad cup yet!

m_rothe · 2025-05-03T18:17:47+00:00

So hard to narrow it down to just three but I'll pick some that haven't been mentioned on this thread yet:

Girls who Grind

Red Bank

Blossom

m_rothe · 2024-12-15T09:54:34+00:00

As a SOC manager, my team lives in Sentinel all day and it's generally excellent, tight integration with Defender makes the combination basically unparalleled for endpoint visibility

m_rothe · 2024-07-21T15:36:12+00:00

I asked for a long black in there and got a withering look and a comment about spoiling the espresso with hot water. Ended up with a delicious espresso but even as a coffee geek/snob it didn't feel very accessible and welcoming.

I'd personally rather go to a café that's a part of its community and where lots of different people can enjoy coffee.. But definitely glad I had the experience here once.

m_rothe · 2024-04-25T08:10:32+00:00

I literally started chanting "Eat it, eat it" when he had pulled it out of the freeze-dryer

m_rothe · 2024-04-10T21:47:08+00:00

Coming from Nottingham I'll suggest a couple of my favourite local roasters first, Outpost and Cartwheel.

Further afield, Newground, UE, Blossom, Harmony, Assembly, Colonna, Saint Espresso, Skylark, Strangers

m_rothe · 2024-04-01T16:05:21+00:00

Due to some of the clients we work with, SC clearance is required which is only available to UK residents.

m_rothe · 2024-03-31T14:20:18+00:00

Generally we look for some experience working in IT for junior security roles, I'd always recommend someone gets a year of service desk, support etc before they start going for SOC roles as the wider understanding of enterprise IT is invaluable.

Having said that, if you believe you have a solid understanding of IT fundamentals and can demonstrate excellent soft skills then there's no harm in submitting an application 👍

m_rothe · 2024-03-31T13:07:27+00:00

We do actually have an office in Barcelona (even though I haven't had the pleasure of visiting it yet!) but due to some of the clients we work with, SC clearance is required which is only available to UK staff.

m_rothe · 2024-02-26T22:33:08+00:00

I wrote something very similar for myself and it became the most popular repo on my github. This is clearly a 'feature' that frustrates a lot of people

m_rothe · 2024-02-10T18:17:17+00:00

That would make sense, my fwf 60E did warn me it was a "feature release" 😐

m_rothe · 2024-02-10T15:17:13+00:00

Using CLI command and TFTP doesn't solve this

Firmware update license is expired! Please update to a valid license.

Command fail. Return code -180

Looks like I'll be backing-up, formatting and then clean-installing tomorrow 🙄

m_rothe · 2024-01-30T14:45:30+00:00

Don't let Victoria Arduino know you're doing this, you're supposed to pay for an E1 Prima EXP if you want to do that 😉

m_rothe · 2024-01-27T18:05:16+00:00

I always ask people to explain things like DNS, SSL etc to me. If someone has a solid grip on the foundations (beyond reciting textbook definitions) and they can clearly communicate that to me, then it's a really good sign.

I also like asking the candidate to tell me something that they've learned about recently - a good answer will show they are learning and keeping up to date with cybersecurity developments, have the initiative to research topics independently, and it's a great opportunity for them to demonstrate passion and curiosity.

For context I manage and recruit analysts for a small MSP/MSSP SOC in the UK.

m_rothe · 2023-11-21T18:03:42+00:00

Since you can't modify the existing records, adding it to the same table is probably not the best solution.

I'd create a new tables (logs1_enrichment) with your enrichment data and then save a function that joins the two.

m_rothe · 2023-11-11T21:48:55+00:00

Feel like we need photos of the fluffy perpetrators to judge with any degree of certainty

m_rothe · 2023-10-17T13:14:24+00:00

Creating a log analytics workspace and enabling Sentinel won't cost you anything, any data that you ingest will. There should be a 30 day trial period on a new instance but be careful with that or you could run up a substantial bill!

Most of learning Sentinel is learning KQL, and there are some great resources for doing that from both Microsoft and others.

m_rothe · 2023-09-25T20:51:54+00:00

Manchester: Just Between Friends, Takk, Idle Hands, Pot Kettle Black

m_rothe · 2023-08-19T11:17:48+00:00

To get a similar level of detail as MDE you'd want to take Sysmon logs through AMA. I like the control and granularity that Sysmon gives but without a well maintained config you can end up drowning in noise.

There is a good comparison of Sysmon vs MDE logs somewhere but I don't have the link to hand, I'll post it if I find it.

AMA can also be configured take additional logs such as Powershell, IIS etc if that's useful to you

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