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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 Mar 2020 | 📝 Blog post

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 Mar 2020 | 📝 Blog post

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 Mar 2020 | 📝 Blog post

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 Mar 2020 | 📝 Blog post

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 Feb 2020 | 📝 Blog post

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 Feb 2020 | 📝 Blog post

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.

📅 02 Feb 2020 | 📝 Blog post

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.

📅 30 Jan 2020 | 📝 Blog post

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.

📅 27 Jan 2020 | 📝 Blog post

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.

📅 21 Jan 2020 | 📝 Blog post

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.

📅 12 Jan 2020 | 📝 Blog post

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.

📅 09 Jan 2020 | 📝 Blog post

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.

📅 04 Jan 2020 | 📝 Blog post

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.

📅 02 Jan 2020 | 📝 Blog post

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