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September 2023 (4): Metro 2033
12 Sep 2023; Clucking Good Fun 🐔
09 Sep 2023; Fat Boy Mailing List
04 Sep 2023; Let’s Be Accountable Together
01 Sep 2023
August 2023 (4): Fat Boy at 40?
29 Aug 2023; Mower Failure
22 Aug 2023; Rhythm of War
03 Aug 2023; Running a Social Platform as Someone Who Dislikes Them
02 Aug 2023
July 2023 (5): Bring Back the Humble Forum
26 Jul 2023; Fact: Crocs Are the Best Shoes on Earth
17 Jul 2023; How It All Connects
10 Jul 2023; A Case for Toe Socks
02 Jul 2023; I’d Love a Dumb Phone, But…
02 Jul 2023
June 2023 (5): Getting Ready for Winter
22 Jun 2023; Cows! 🐮
18 Jun 2023; The Blank Box
12 Jun 2023; Apple WWDC 2023 - My Thoughts
06 Jun 2023; AutoTrader Scammers
03 Jun 2023
May 2023 (4): Words of Radiance
30 May 2023; Underline Your Links
15 May 2023; Anti-Social Update
10 May 2023; It Only Costs a Coffee per Month
01 May 2023
April 2023 (6): My Thoughts on the Remarkable 2
24 Apr 2023; Anti-Social Media
23 Apr 2023; Moving from Jekyll to Blot
19 Apr 2023; The Way Of Kings
17 Apr 2023; Is Good Enough…Good Enough?
10 Apr 2023; Building a Self-Hosted Microblog
06 Apr 2023
March 2023 (7): Astrosaurs 📚
26 Mar 2023; I Re-Joined Twitter
24 Mar 2023; I Won't Buy A YubiKey
24 Mar 2023; A Fediverse Backup?
21 Mar 2023; Thoughts on Editing Posts
20 Mar 2023; Are you making these design mistakes on your blog?
11 Mar 2023; Gideon The Ninth
03 Mar 2023
February 2023 (7): Adding Email Subscriptions
28 Feb 2023; My Static Site Workflow
27 Feb 2023; A Script to Automate Git Add, Commit & Push
19 Feb 2023; Micro.Blog Is Still Confusing
16 Feb 2023; The Wise Man’s Fear
10 Feb 2023; FediPoll
06 Feb 2023; Casio MWD-110H Review
03 Feb 2023
January 2023 (8): An Algorithm vs Time
30 Jan 2023; I Was Nearly Phished
23 Jan 2023; Three Great Alternatives to the Casio F-91W
20 Jan 2023; Ten Years of Blogging
19 Jan 2023; Responsive Navigation Menu Without JavaScript
11 Jan 2023; Home vs Office Working
08 Jan 2023; Does a Blog Need to Integrate?
03 Jan 2023; Are Luxury Watches Worth It?
02 Jan 2023
December 2022 (4): Microsoft’s Bot CAPTCHA is Annoying AF
25 Dec 2022; The Name of the Wind
22 Dec 2022; Can I Use Data Files?
16 Dec 2022; What Happens When We’re Gone?
05 Dec 2022
November 2022 (3): I’m a Fire Starter!
25 Nov 2022; Why the Casio F-91W Is the Best Watch Ever Made
25 Nov 2022; Is Twitter Done Yet?
14 Nov 2022
October 2022 (2): The Time My Nan Bought Me a Baby-G Watch
30 Oct 2022; It’s all Gone Quiet Over Here
16 Oct 2022
September 2022 (7): The Casio F-91W Is the Best Smartwatch
26 Sep 2022; My Blogging Utopia
24 Sep 2022; How to Create a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box
21 Sep 2022; Why Don’t We Have a Smartphone for Teenagers?
16 Sep 2022; Remember When Phones Were Cool?
13 Sep 2022; iCreep
09 Sep 2022; Updating My Contact Email Automatically
01 Sep 2022
August 2022 (7): Ban the Spam!
31 Aug 2022; Twitter’s Echo Chamber of Pretentiousness
26 Aug 2022; Heaven’s River (Bobiverse Book 4)
18 Aug 2022; Static Site Generators Are Easy to Use…Right?
15 Aug 2022; Will the IndieWeb Ever Become Mainstream?
13 Aug 2022; Five Years of Fosstodon Questions
05 Aug 2022; Hunt for Better WordPress Hosting - Update
01 Aug 2022
July 2022 (6): Revisiting the Web Analytics Rabbit Hole
25 Jul 2022; How Big Is a Billion?
23 Jul 2022; All These Worlds (Bobiverse Book 3)
19 Jul 2022; For We Are Many (Bobiverse Book 2)
07 Jul 2022; AMA Responses 02
04 Jul 2022; What’s the Point?
01 Jul 2022
June 2022 (6): What if WordPress Didn’t Exist?
29 Jun 2022; We Are Legion (Bobiverse 1)
25 Jun 2022; AMA Responses 01
20 Jun 2022; Ask Me Anything
18 Jun 2022; Segregating Email With Sub-Domains
12 Jun 2022; Why Forced Password Changes Reduce Security
08 Jun 2022
May 2022 (7): Is DuckDuckGo, DuckDuckDone?
25 May 2022; You Should Flip a Coin
22 May 2022; A Brutally Simple Site
19 May 2022; AirPods Pro - 1 Week Later
14 May 2022; Alloy of Law (Mistborn 4)
12 May 2022; AirPods Pro - First Impressions
08 May 2022; The Expert vs the Impostor
02 May 2022
April 2022 (6): Why Are Newsletters So Painful?
25 Apr 2022; Calamity (Reckoners Book 3)
24 Apr 2022; The Design History of This Website
15 Apr 2022; We Need to Talk About Kevin
11 Apr 2022; Firefight (Reckoners Book 2)
07 Apr 2022; Steelheart (Reckoners Book 1)
04 Apr 2022
March 2022 (4): The Mistborn Trilogy
21 Mar 2022; Clocker - The Best Time Zone App for Mac
12 Mar 2022; What Is a Linux User?
09 Mar 2022; What Happened When I Replied to a Sponsored Content Email?
05 Mar 2022
February 2022 (3): What’s the Alternative to Firefox?
18 Feb 2022; On Burnout
14 Feb 2022; Gemini Isn’t The Solution To The Broken Web
08 Feb 2022
January 2022 (6): Oh Spotify…
31 Jan 2022; How I Manage Content With Jekyll
28 Jan 2022; I Broke My MacBook User Profile By Deleting A Single Folder
21 Jan 2022; Comparing Static Site Hosts; Which Is The Best Host For A Static Site?
14 Jan 2022; How To Solve A Rubik’s Cube For Beginners
07 Jan 2022; My Predictions For 2022
01 Jan 2022
December 2021 (4): Testing Netlify Analytics
13 Dec 2021; Be curious…
10 Dec 2021; How To Add Search To A Jekyll Site
09 Dec 2021; Goodbye WordPress, I’ve Switched To Jekyll (Again)
04 Dec 2021
November 2021 (5): Welcome to the RSS Club!
28 Nov 2021; The Pagination Predicament
26 Nov 2021; This Is What’s Wrong With The Linux Community
20 Nov 2021; MacBook M1 - 4 Months Later
15 Nov 2021; A Reality Where CSS And JavaScript Doesn’t Exist?
08 Nov 2021
October 2021 (1): Forget Twitter Threads; Write A Blog Post Instead!
21 Oct 2021
September 2021 (4): Pimping My Type - Improving My Website’s Typography
29 Sep 2021; The Importance Of An About Page
19 Sep 2021; Core Web Vitals and WordPress
08 Sep 2021; The Hunt For Better WordPress Hosting
03 Sep 2021
August 2021 (6): The Time I Was Run Over Twice In One Day
17 Aug 2021; Moving From Yoast To SEOPress
16 Aug 2021; Adding The Post Title To My “Reply By Email” Button
15 Aug 2021; Story Time
13 Aug 2021; A Windows User’s First Impressions Of MacOS
08 Aug 2021; I’m Newslettering Again!
02 Aug 2021
July 2021 (7): What’s In A Font? Website Typography Best Practices
30 Jul 2021; Killing The Meta Letter
29 Jul 2021; Migrating From Yoast To RankMath Broke My Site
28 Jul 2021; How To Restore The Default PiHole Block List
14 Jul 2021; The New Mycroft Mark II
12 Jul 2021; A Sombre Goodbye To Linux
10 Jul 2021; Online Conversations & Website Engagement
03 Jul 2021
June 2021 (7): Chasing Visitors - The Web Analytics Rabbit Hole
25 Jun 2021; Building A Self-Hosted Journal
19 Jun 2021; Internet Cold Callers & Their Link Sharing Emails
16 Jun 2021; Why I Delete Old Content
13 Jun 2021; [Response] Why Do People Use Medium Blogs?
09 Jun 2021; Are WordPress Plugin Acquisitions Too Much?
07 Jun 2021; Chrome’s Follow Button
02 Jun 2021
May 2021 (4): Why I Hate The Tux Linux Mascot
23 May 2021; Is Windows Unstable? Here Are My Thoughts
20 May 2021; Wanna Help With The 512KB Club?
15 May 2021; The Back-end of Beyond
09 May 2021
April 2021 (2): What’s The Difference Between Padding And Margin?
07 Apr 2021; Adding Some Whimsy & Character
04 Apr 2021
March 2021 (5): My Thoughts On Richard Stallman’s Return To the FSF Board
22 Mar 2021; How To Speed Up WordPress
17 Mar 2021; Getting started With Git - A Simple Beginner’s Guide
14 Mar 2021; The Wonderful World Of WordPress Wizardry For Working With Websites
07 Mar 2021; How To Remove The HTML Extension From A URL
05 Mar 2021
February 2021 (4): Is JavaScript Bad? Well, Only If You Are Using It Wrong
26 Feb 2021; Upgrading My Desktop PC
15 Feb 2021; My Thoughts On Micro.Blog
12 Feb 2021; Evolving My Newsletter
10 Feb 2021
January 2021 (9): Life After WhatsApp; Becoming A Messenger Nomad
31 Jan 2021; The Case Against Signal
25 Jan 2021; How To Install Nextcloud On A Synology NAS
21 Jan 2021; Trying Out Forestry.io
18 Jan 2021; Pull & Backup Multiple GitHub Repositories With This Script
17 Jan 2021; My Typical Day
15 Jan 2021; Is There A Better Term Than “Google It”?
12 Jan 2021; How To Build A Jekyll Site Using Simple.css
10 Jan 2021; Simple.css - A Classless CSS Framework For Everyone
03 Jan 2021
December 2020 (4): I Messed Up
29 Dec 2020; My Writing Workflow
19 Dec 2020; If It’s Free, You’re The Product
18 Dec 2020; Add A Date To Your Posts!
07 Dec 2020
November 2020 (4): Has Jupiter Broadcasting Gone Down The Pan?
23 Nov 2020; Removing Support For The IndieWeb
13 Nov 2020; My First Post On CSS Tricks
10 Nov 2020; A Nod To The 90s Web
05 Nov 2020
October 2020 (3): Trying To Go Green With Local Fonts
23 Oct 2020; Replacing FreshRSS With Miniflux
18 Oct 2020; Looking After An Aquarium - How Much Work Is Involved?
04 Oct 2020
September 2020 (5): The Apple Walled Garden
30 Sep 2020; Thinking About New Hardware
26 Sep 2020; WordPress Creator Vs The Jamstack
20 Sep 2020; Making A Light Website 08 - Replacing Images With CSS
19 Sep 2020; Static Site Generators Revisited
11 Sep 2020
August 2020 (4): Domain Squatters Are The Scum Of The Earth
31 Aug 2020; How To Setup Pi-hole On A Synology NAS
21 Aug 2020; How To Use Your Own Router With Plusnet Fibre Broadband
18 Aug 2020; How To Make Ubuntu Work Like Windows 10
12 Aug 2020
July 2020 (2): Which Is The Best WordPress Caching Plugin?
30 Jul 2020; Synology vs Nextcloud - Which Is Better For A Home Server?
11 Jul 2020
June 2020 (9): Email Is Not Broken
30 Jun 2020; How To Use A TP-Link Router With Sky Fibre Optic
24 Jun 2020; How To Create An IndieWeb Profile
23 Jun 2020; How To Backup Nextcloud
19 Jun 2020; Why Does Logitech Hate Left Handed People?
15 Jun 2020; How Much Does It Cost To Run This Blog?
13 Jun 2020; How Does Mastodon Work?
11 Jun 2020; Centralisation and Mastodon
08 Jun 2020; My Thoughts On Pop OS 20.04 After One Month
02 Jun 2020
May 2020 (18): My History With Blogging
30 May 2020; Mothballing The Meta Blog & My Plans For This Blog
27 May 2020; Was Creating A Dedicated Niche Blog A Bad Idea?
25 May 2020; How To Start A Blog If You’re Not A Nerd
20 May 2020; Reviewing My Password Manager Database To Make Me More Secure
18 May 2020; Choosing The Right Domain Name For Your Blog
17 May 2020; My Approach To My Career
14 May 2020; 100 Days To Offload & Over-Saturation
13 May 2020; Git Lecture [video]
12 May 2020; I Now Know How To use Git
11 May 2020; Keybase, Zoom and Me
08 May 2020; Confession: I Have No Idea How To Use Git
07 May 2020; Adding A Scroll To Top Button Without JavaScript
06 May 2020; Recommended Read - A Biker’s Life By Henry Cole
05 May 2020; Which WordPress Plugins I Use
04 May 2020; The Battle Of The Oscar Fish Tank
03 May 2020; How Many Devices Is Too Many?
02 May 2020; Spotify For The Win
01 May 2020
April 2020 (13): Making A Website 07 - A New Header & Footer
30 Apr 2020; Writing With SEO In Mind
29 Apr 2020; Is Dark Mode Good For Your Eyes?
28 Apr 2020; My Thoughts On Ubuntu 20.04
26 Apr 2020; 100 Days To Offload
25 Apr 2020; So You Want To Make It On The Fediverse?
24 Apr 2020; Why I Have A Blog
22 Apr 2020; How To Add An Old Post Notice To WordPress
21 Apr 2020; Removing Mastodon Webmention From My IndieWeb
16 Apr 2020; Rewriting My WordPress Site In HTML/CSS & Comparing Performance
12 Apr 2020; Implementing The IndieWeb Into My Website
11 Apr 2020; Why I Don’t Use A Static Site Generator
08 Apr 2020; Why Having A Full Post RSS Feed Is A Good Idea
04 Apr 2020
March 2020 (8): How Websites Check Your Password
31 Mar 2020; De-Googling My Life - 2 Years On
21 Mar 2020; How To Cycle An Aquarium
19 Mar 2020; How I Optimise My Website Performance
18 Mar 2020; How The Aquarium Nitrogen Cycle Works
16 Mar 2020; How to backup a Synology to Backblaze B2
11 Mar 2020; Moving from Nextcloud to Synology
10 Mar 2020; How To Create A Simple Install Script In Ubuntu
03 Mar 2020
February 2020 (5): The Case For WordPress
04 Feb 2020; How To Add CSS Dark Mode To A Website
03 Feb 2020; Making A Website 06 - Finishing Touches
02 Feb 2020; Making A Website 05 - Adding A Blog
01 Feb 2020; Decentralised SMTP Is For The Greater Good
01 Feb 2020
January 2020 (11): Making A Website 04 - Responsiveness
30 Jan 2020; Making A Website - 03 Menus
27 Jan 2020; Why Lobste.rs Is Better Than Hacker News
25 Jan 2020; Privacy On Mainstream Media
24 Jan 2020; Migrate From Windows 7 To Linux
21 Jan 2020; How To Self-Host Your Web Fonts
19 Jan 2020; Making A Light Website - 02 Design
18 Jan 2020; Excerpt vs Full Content?
12 Jan 2020; Making A Website - 01 The Basics
09 Jan 2020; How To Add A Custom Colour Palette To The Gutenberg Editor
04 Jan 2020; Categorise Or Compartmentalise?
02 Jan 2020
December 2019 (7): How To Convert WordPress To Markdown
26 Dec 2019; Privacy & Security Are Different - Round 2
24 Dec 2019; Moving To Progressive Web Apps
22 Dec 2019; Librem 5 - My Thoughts
18 Dec 2019; Privacy & Security Are Different
17 Dec 2019; Reasons Why Zoho Mail Is Better Than Gmail
14 Dec 2019; How To Host Email With Your Own Domain
10 Dec 2019
November 2019 (1): Coming Full Circle - From Grav To WordPress
19 Nov 2019
October 2019 (2): What Is Self-Hosting?
26 Oct 2019; Why You Shouldn’t Use Facebook
12 Oct 2019
September 2019 (3): How Browser Fingerprinting Works
25 Sep 2019; How Online Tracking Works
07 Sep 2019; Commento - The Privacy Respecting Commenting System
02 Sep 2019
August 2019 (2): Please Add RSS Support To Your Site
27 Aug 2019; Migrating from WordPress to Grav
24 Aug 2019
June 2019 (3): How To Install Nextcloud On Shared Hosting
16 Jun 2019; How To Mount A Partition In Ubuntu
07 Jun 2019; How To Setup A Nextcloud Server In Ubuntu
01 Jun 2019
May 2019 (1): Improving My Ubuntu Workflow
26 May 2019
April 2019 (1): My Home Server — 2 Months On
07 Apr 2019
February 2019 (2): Privacy vs “I have nothing to hide”
21 Feb 2019; Building My Home Server
02 Feb 2019
January 2019 (1): I Nearly Lost All Of My Data!
19 Jan 2019
December 2018 (2): Ditching Android — 6 Weeks On
17 Dec 2018; How Plus Addressing Can Prevent Spam
09 Dec 2018
November 2018 (1): Why I’m Ditching Android
03 Nov 2018
October 2018 (3): Juno Computers Jupiter Laptop Review
27 Oct 2018; Elementary OS Juno Review
17 Oct 2018; Why I Use Linux
13 Oct 2018
September 2018 (2): Are Biometrics A Good Idea?
30 Sep 2018; How Migrate from Disqus to WordPress and Bypass Disqus’ Roadblocks
18 Sep 2018
August 2018 (2): What Is Two Factor Authentication?
21 Aug 2018; Getting Started With Mastodon
13 Aug 2018
July 2018 (1): How To Secure WordPress
11 Jul 2018
June 2018 (4): More or Less WordPress Theme
30 Jun 2018; Fix the Large CloudStation System Tray Icon in Ubuntu
15 Jun 2018; Moving To A Static Website
10 Jun 2018; Microsoft Acquires GitHub — My Thoughts
06 Jun 2018
May 2018 (3): Is A Password Book A Bad Idea?
14 May 2018; De-Googling My Life — 6 Months On
06 May 2018; Nextcloud On A Raspberry Pi 3+
01 May 2018
March 2018 (1): Why HTTPS Is Important
22 Mar 2018
January 2018 (1): Why Your Password Is Probably Crap
04 Jan 2018
December 2017 (1): Are Password Managers Really Worth It?
27 Dec 2017
November 2017 (1): De-Googling My Life 06 — What I Can’t Replace
09 Nov 2017
October 2017 (4): De-Googling My Life 05 — Gmail
28 Oct 2017; De-Googling My Life 04 — Google Drive
18 Oct 2017; Why You Should Own Your Own Domain
12 Oct 2017; De-Googling My Life 03 — Google+
07 Oct 2017
September 2017 (3): De-Googling My Life 02 — Analytics
29 Sep 2017; De-Googling My Life 01 — Browser & Search
10 Sep 2017; De-Googling My Life Series
04 Sep 2017
June 2017 (2): Things To Consider When Starting A Blog
10 Jun 2017; Medium Vs Ghost — Which One For a Personal Blog?
08 Jun 2017
February 2017 (1): Bitwarden — An Open Source Alternative to LastPass
20 Feb 2017
February 2016 (1): Social Experiment - How to Get Facebook Passwords
28 Feb 2016
January 2016 (1): WFT Happened? Is Google+ Dead?
15 Jan 2016
December 2015 (1): Sony & XBox DDoS Attack Warning at Christmas
18 Dec 2015
November 2015 (1): Red Poppy Fascism - Give Me a Break
07 Nov 2015
October 2015 (1): LastPass Joins LogMeIn - What Now?
12 Oct 2015
September 2015 (2): Stop Spam for Free with MX GuardDog
14 Sep 2015; ZeXtras Review
04 Sep 2015
August 2015 (1): How To Stop Outgoing Mail On Zimbra From Being Delivered As Spam
10 Aug 2015
July 2015 (1): How to Setup a Zimbra Server
30 Jul 2015
February 2015 (1): Moving Away from Google - FINALLY!
09 Feb 2015
December 2014 (1): Build the Perfect Web Server
02 Dec 2014
November 2014 (1): Hudl 2 Review
16 Nov 2014
October 2014 (1): Digital Ocean Review
29 Oct 2014
September 2014 (1): How To Check If You Are Vulnerable To Bash Shellshock
27 Sep 2014
July 2014 (1): Leaving Ubuntu - Update
25 Jul 2014
April 2014 (1): How To Use FTP On A Chromebook
22 Apr 2014
February 2014 (1): CyanogenMod 11 Galaxy S3 Freezing
26 Feb 2014
January 2014 (1): Oh Freedom How I’ve Missed Thee!
15 Jan 2014
December 2013 (1): Selling Up & Moving On
11 Dec 2013
November 2013 (1): Moving Away From Gmail is Harder Than You Think
01 Nov 2013
October 2013 (2): Decisions Decisions…
22 Oct 2013; Dreamhost - The Worst Web Host I’ve Ever Used
01 Oct 2013
August 2013 (1): I’m Writing for MakeUseOf
23 Aug 2013
July 2013 (3): Rodriguez - The Superstar That Never Was
26 Jul 2013; How I Made a Successful Career In IT
21 Jul 2013; How Many Projects Can One Person Run?
20 Jul 2013
June 2013 (2): My Name is Kev Quirk and I’m an Addict
10 Jun 2013; Bringing it All In-House
09 Jun 2013
May 2013 (2): I’m Finally Home
16 May 2013; Is It Right to Beg for Donations on a Blog?
06 May 2013
March 2013 (2): Windows 8 Isn’t That Bad
09 Mar 2013; Why I’ll Leave Ubuntu Linux
04 Mar 2013
February 2013 (1): OwnCloud is Awesome
04 Feb 2013
January 2013 (2): British Army Cuts - What a Joke
22 Jan 2013; Welcome to My New Site
19 Jan 2013