Moving from Nextcloud to Synology
Following a hardware failure in Feb 2019, I moved away from my old Synology to a home built server running Nextcloud. I've now moved back to Synology. This post explains why.
How To Create A Simple Install Script In Ubuntu
This post shows you how to create a simple install script for when you install a fresh build of Ubuntu. This will help you get up and running much quicker.
The Case For WordPress
Apparently, WordPress is slow, insecure and hard to maintain. I disagree and wanted to take a minute to explain why I think none of this is actually true.
How To Add CSS Dark Mode To A Website
A lot of people like to have the option of having a dark mode for a website. Here's how to add it to your site.
Making A Website 06 - Finishing Touches
It's time for the final post in my Making A Website series. In this 6th and final post, we're going to be adding some finishing touches to our website. This is mostly going to be CSS changes, to improve our theme.
Decentralised SMTP Is For The Greater Good
If found this post on Lobte.rs today and thought it was an excellent piece, so worth sharing. The writer talks about how the big mail corporations, like Gmail and Office 365, are so popular that they’...
Making A Website 05 - Adding A Blog
In this post of the making a website series, we will add a blog to our simple site.
Making A Website 04 - Responsiveness
Our light website is coming along nicely, but there's still some work to do - today we're going to make our website responsive.
Making A Website - 03 Menus
We now have a pretty good looking webpage, but it's now time to turn it into a website. In this post we're going to add additional pages, as well as a menu.
Why Lobste.rs Is Better Than Hacker News
Lobste.rs is WAY better than Hacker News (in my opinion). Here's why...
Privacy On Mainstream Media
I’ve just been having a flick through Hacker News and I came across this post from the BBC: What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? It’s an interesting read that talks about things that many...
Migrate From Windows 7 To Linux
I have read so many posts about this recently, it's making my head hurt. I get the sentiment - a popular OS is going end of life, so it's a good opportunity to coax new people over to Linux.
How To Self-Host Your Web Fonts
If you're using a pre-built theme, the likelihood is that Google Fonts is being used for rendering typography. This post will show you how to self-host web fonts so you're not beholden to Google. Gett...
Excerpt vs Full Content?
When discovering a new blog, I like to have a look through at least a few pages of blog archives before adding them to my RSS feeds.
Making A Website - 01 The Basics
Welcome to the first post in my series Making A Website. This series of posts will take you through all the steps needed to make your very own website from scratch.
How To Add A Custom Colour Palette To The Gutenberg Editor
The new Gutenberg editor in WordPress is pretty good, but I wanted to be able to customise the colour palette of my blocks. This post will show you how to add a custom colour palette to the Gutenberg editor.
Categorise Or Compartmentalise?
Regular readers of this blog will know that it's very much a tech focussed site. However, I have three main passions in my life, which are tech (obviously), fish-keeping and motorbikes.
How To Convert WordPress To Markdown
Markdown is a simplified version of HTML. If you want to know how to convert WordPress to Markdown, you should probably read this post.
Privacy & Security Are Different - Round 2
I recently wrote a post explaining that I think Privacy & Security Are Different. Following that post I've received some feedback questioning my rationale. This post is a response to some of that feedback.