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?
Posts Tagged "Technology"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How To Host Email With Your Own Domain
In this post I'm going to show you how to setup email with your own domain using the same company I use to host my email, Zoho.
Coming Full Circle - From Grav To WordPress
After all my messing around with different blog platforms, I've come full circle and gone back to WordPress.
What Is Self-Hosting?
What actually is "self-hosting"? It means different things to different people. This is what it means to me...
Why You Shouldn't Use Facebook
Facebook is the worst place on the internet. It's a privacy vortex of doom and here are just SOME of the reasons why you sholdn't use it,
How Online Tracking Works
I'm going to try and explain how online tracking works. I think I have a relatively good understanding of things, but it's a complicated subject, so I'll try and keep it as simple as possible.
Commento - The Privacy Respecting Commenting System
Commento is a fanstic, privact respecting alternative to 3rd party commenting services like Disqus.
Please Add RSS Support To Your Site
Having an RSS feed is a great way of allowing readers from all over the internet consume your conent. But please, make sure the entire post is in there!
Migrating from WordPress to Grav
After quite the evolution of blogging platforms and services, the latest iteration of this blog is based off of Grav.
How To Install Nextcloud On Shared Hosting
After writing my Nextcloud setup guide, people have asked me whether they can install Nextcloud on shared hosting, like cPanel.
How To Mount A Partition In Ubuntu
If you want to mount a partition in Ubuntu, all you really need to do is plug the drive into your machine and open your file browser. However, what if you want to ensure that partition always mounts on boot?
How To Setup A Nextcloud Server In Ubuntu
This guide will show you how to install Nextcloud on Ubuntu.
Improving My Ubuntu Workflow
I've made a few small changes which have really imroved my workflow on Ubuntu.