How Websites Check Your Password
Ever wondered how websites check your password? I mean, how can they check your password without being able to read it? It's a catch 22, surely?
📅 31 March 2020
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Welcome 👋🏻
Hi, I’m Kev and this is my corner of the web — part blog, part soapbox. You’ll find tech experiments, the occasional rant, and more than a few opinions that are probably wrong (but fun to argue about). Have a wander, you might find something interesting.
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De-Googling My Life - 2 Years On
I first started De-Googling my life back in September 2017. It's now been nearly 2.5 years since I completed that process, so I thought it was time for an update.
📅 21 March 2020
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How To Cycle An Aquarium
If you're new to fishkeeping, you _need_ to cycle your aquarium before stocking your tank with live animals. This post will show you how I personally do this.
📅 19 March 2020
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How I Optimise My Website Performance
WordPress is not slow. This website uses WordPress and is pretty darn quick, I think you will agree? In this post I want to talk a little bit about how I've optimised the performance of this website so that it loads in less than 2 seconds.
📅 18 March 2020
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How The Aquarium Nitrogen Cycle Works
The nitrogen cycle is one of the first things most fishkeepers learn, but many don't achieve (or don't know about) the FULL nitrogen cycle. This post may help you have better water quality, so you have to do fewer water changes. But most importantly, your fish will be happier and healthier.
📅 16 March 2020
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How to backup a Synology to Backblaze B2
I recently wrote a post about moving from Nextcloud to Synology, in that post I mention how I'm backing up to Backblaze B2. This post explains how I configured that.
📅 11 March 2020
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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.
📅 10 March 2020
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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.
📅 03 March 2020
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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.
📅 04 February 2020
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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.
📅 03 February 2020