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A Brutally Simple Site

19 May 202220 May 2022

AirPods Pro – 1 Week Later

14 May 202214 May 2022

Alloy of Law (Mistborn 4)

12 May 202218 May 2022

AirPods Pro – First Impressions

8 May 2022

The Expert vs the Impostor

2 May 20224 May 2022

Why Are Newsletters So Painful?

25 Apr 202225 Apr 2022

Calamity (Reckoners Book 3)

24 Apr 202218 May 2022

The Design History of This Website

15 Apr 202220 May 2022

We Need to Talk About Kevin

11 Apr 202218 May 2022

Firefight (Reckoners Book 2)

7 Apr 202218 May 2022

Steelheart (Reckoners Book 1)

4 Apr 202218 May 2022

The Mistborn Trilogy

21 Mar 202218 May 2022

Clocker – The Best Time Zone App for Mac

12 Mar 202212 Mar 2022

What Is a Linux User?

9 Mar 2022

What Happened When I Replied to a Sponsored Content Email?

5 Mar 20226 Mar 2022

What’s the Alternative to Firefox?

18 Feb 202219 Feb 2022

On Burnout

14 Feb 2022

Gemini Isn’t The Solution To The Broken Web

8 Feb 20223 Mar 2022

Oh, Spotify…

31 Jan 202218 May 2022

How I Manage Content With Jekyll

28 Jan 20226 Feb 2022

I Broke My MacBook User Profile By Deleting A Single Folder

21 Jan 20226 Feb 2022

Comparing Static Site Hosts; Which Is The Best Host For A Static Site?

14 Jan 202218 May 2022

How To Solve A Rubik’s Cube For Beginners

7 Jan 20226 Feb 2022

My Predictions For 2022

1 Jan 20226 Feb 2022

Testing Netlify Analytics

13 Dec 202118 May 2022

Be Curious…

10 Dec 202115 Feb 2022

How To Add Search To A Jekyll Site

9 Dec 20216 Feb 2022

The Pagination Predicament

26 Nov 20216 Feb 2022

This Is What’s Wrong With The Linux Community

20 Nov 20216 Feb 2022

MacBook M1 – 4 Months Later

15 Nov 20216 Feb 2022

A Reality Where CSS And JavaScript Don’t Exist…?

8 Nov 20216 Feb 2022

Forget Twitter Threads; Write A Blog Post Instead!

21 Oct 202121 Oct 2021

Pimping My Type – Improving My Website’s Typography

29 Sep 202110 Feb 2022

The Importance Of An About Page

19 Sep 20216 Feb 2022

Core Web Vitals and WordPress

8 Sep 20218 Sep 2021

The Hunt For Better WordPress Hosting

3 Sep 20216 Feb 2022

The Time I Was Run Over Twice In One Day

17 Aug 202118 May 2022

Moving From Yoast To SEOPress

16 Aug 202115 Sep 2021

Adding The Post Title To My “Reply By Email” Button

15 Aug 202115 Aug 2021

Story Time

13 Aug 202115 Sep 2021

A Windows User’s First Impressions Of MacOS

8 Aug 20216 Feb 2022

I’m Newslettering Again!

2 Aug 202115 Sep 2021

What’s In A Font? Website Typography Best Practices

30 Jul 202118 May 2022

Killing The Meta Letter

29 Jul 202125 Apr 2022

Migrating From Yoast To RankMath Broke My Site

28 Jul 202128 Jul 2021

Adding A ‘Uses’ Page

25 Jul 202115 Sep 2021

How To Restore The Default PiHole Block List

14 Jul 202114 Jul 2021

The New Mycroft Mark II

12 Jul 202115 Sep 2021

A Sombre Goodbye To Linux

10 Jul 202118 May 2022

Online Conversations & Website Engagement

3 Jul 202126 Jul 2021

Chasing Visitors – The Web Analytics Rabbit Hole

25 Jun 202128 Jul 2021

Building A Self-Hosted Journal

19 Jun 202115 Sep 2021

Internet Cold Callers & Their Link Sharing Emails

16 Jun 202116 Jun 2021

Why I Delete Old Content

13 Jun 202113 Jun 2021

[Response] Why Do People Use Medium Blogs?

9 Jun 202115 Sep 2021

Are WordPress Plugin Acquisitions Too Much?

7 Jun 202115 Sep 2021

Chrome’s Follow Button

2 Jun 202115 Sep 2021

Why I Hate The Tux Linux Mascot

23 May 202115 Sep 2021

Is Windows Unstable? Here Are My Thoughts

20 May 20212 Jun 2021

Wanna Help With The 512KB Club?

15 May 202115 Sep 2021

The Back-end of Beyond

9 May 202115 Sep 2021

What’s The Difference Between Padding And Margin?

7 Apr 202127 Jun 2021

Adding Some Whimsy & Character

4 Apr 202110 Apr 2021

My Thoughts On Richard Stallman’s Return To the FSF Board

22 Mar 20214 Apr 2021

How To Speed Up WordPress

17 Mar 20215 May 2021

Getting started With Git – A Simple Beginner’s Guide

14 Mar 20214 Apr 2021

The Wonderful World Of WordPress Wizardry For Working With Websites

7 Mar 202129 Mar 2021

How To Remove The HTML Extension From A URL

5 Mar 202129 Mar 2021

Is JavaScript Bad? Well, Only If You’re Using It Wrong

26 Feb 202129 Mar 2021

Upgrading My Desktop PC

15 Feb 20215 May 2021

My Thoughts On Micro.Blog

12 Feb 202129 Mar 2021

Evolving My Newsletter

10 Feb 202115 Sep 2021

Life After WhatsApp; Becoming A Messenger Nomad

31 Jan 202129 Mar 2021

The Case Against Signal

25 Jan 202115 Sep 2021

How To Install Nextcloud On A Synology NAS

21 Jan 202129 Mar 2021

Trying Out Forestry.io

18 Jan 202129 Mar 2021

Pull & Backup Multiple GitHub Repositories With This Script

17 Jan 20219 Apr 2021

My Typical Day

15 Jan 202115 Sep 2021

Is There A Better Term Than “Google It”?

12 Jan 202115 Sep 2021

How To Build A Jekyll Site Using Simple.css

10 Jan 202118 May 2022

Simple.css – A Classless CSS Framework For Everyone

3 Jan 202118 May 2022

I Messed Up

29 Dec 202018 May 2022

My Writing Workflow

19 Dec 202015 Feb 2021

If It’s Free, You’re The Product

18 Dec 202018 May 2022

Goodbye WordPress, I’ve Switched To Jekyll

8 Dec 20203 Sep 2021

Add A Date To Your Posts!

7 Dec 202015 Sep 2021

Has Jupiter Broadcasting Gone Down The Pan?

23 Nov 202015 Sep 2021

Removing Support For The IndieWeb

13 Nov 202018 May 2022

My First Post On CSS Tricks

10 Nov 202018 May 2022

A Nod To The 90s Web

5 Nov 202021 May 2021

Trying To Go Green With Local Fonts

23 Oct 202019 May 2022

Replacing FreshRSS With Miniflux

18 Oct 202015 Feb 2021

Looking After An Aquarium – How Much Work Is Involved?

4 Oct 202018 May 2022

The Apple Walled Garden

30 Sep 202018 May 2022

Thinking About New Hardware

26 Sep 202018 May 2022

WordPress Creator Vs The Jamstack

20 Sep 202015 Feb 2021

Making A Light Website 08 – Replacing Images With CSS

19 Sep 202015 Feb 2021

Static Site Generators Revisited

11 Sep 202018 May 2022

Domain Squatters Are The Scum Of The Earth

31 Aug 202018 May 2022

How To Setup Pi-hole On A Synology NAS

21 Aug 202018 Feb 2021

How To Use Your Own Router With Plusnet Fibre Broadband

18 Aug 202015 Apr 2021

How To Make Ubuntu Work Like Windows 10

12 Aug 20204 May 2021

Which Is The Best WordPress Caching Plugin?

30 Jul 202015 Feb 2021

Synology vs Nextcloud – Which Is Better For A Home Server?

11 Jul 202015 Feb 2021

Email Is Not Broken

30 Jun 202015 Feb 2021

How To Use A TP-Link Router With Sky Fibre Optic

24 Jun 202029 Sep 2021

How To Create An IndieWeb Profile

23 Jun 202019 Feb 2021

How To Backup Nextcloud

19 Jun 202015 Jul 2021

Why Does Logitech Hate Left Handed People?

15 Jun 20207 Feb 2022

How Much Does It Cost To Run This Blog?

13 Jun 202018 May 2022

How Does Mastodon Work?

11 Jun 202015 Jul 2021

Centralisation and Mastodon

8 Jun 202015 Feb 2021

My Thoughts On Pop OS 20.04 After One Month

2 Jun 202015 Feb 2021

My History With Blogging

30 May 202018 May 2022

Mothballing The Meta Blog & My Plans For This Blog

27 May 202015 Sep 2021

Was Creating A Dedicated Niche Blog A Bad Idea?

25 May 202015 Feb 2021

How To Start A Blog If You’re Not A Nerd

20 May 202015 Feb 2021

Reviewing My Password Manager Database To Make Me More Secure

18 May 202015 Feb 2021

Choosing The Right Domain Name For Your Blog

17 May 202018 May 2022

My Approach To My Career

14 May 202015 Sep 2021

100 Days To Offload & Over-Saturation

13 May 202015 Sep 2021

Git Lecture [video]

12 May 202015 Sep 2021

I Now Know How To use Git

11 May 202015 Sep 2021

Keybase, Zoom and Me

8 May 202015 Feb 2021

Confession: I Have No Idea How To Use Git

7 May 202015 Feb 2021

Adding A Scroll To Top Button Without JavaScript

6 May 202018 May 2022

A Biker’s Life By Henry Cole

5 May 202018 May 2022

Which WordPress Plugins I Use

4 May 202015 Feb 2021

The Battle Of The Oscar Fish Tank

3 May 202015 Feb 2021

How Many Devices Is Too Many?

2 May 202015 Sep 2021

Spotify For The Win

1 May 202015 Sep 2021

Making A Website 07 – A New Header & Footer

30 Apr 202015 Feb 2021

Writing With SEO In Mind

29 Apr 202015 Sep 2021

Is Dark Mode Good For Your Eyes?

28 Apr 202015 Feb 2021

My Thoughts On Ubuntu 20.04

26 Apr 202015 Sep 2021

100 Days To Offload

25 Apr 202015 Sep 2021

So You Want To Make It On The Fediverse?

24 Apr 202015 Sep 2021

Why I Have A Blog

22 Apr 202015 Sep 2021

How To Add An Old Post Notice To WordPress

21 Apr 202015 Feb 2021

Removing Mastodon Webmention From My IndieWeb

16 Apr 202015 Sep 2021

Rewriting My WordPress Site In HTML/CSS & Comparing Performance

12 Apr 20203 Jun 2021

Implementing The IndieWeb Into My Website

11 Apr 20203 Jun 2021

Why I Don’t Use A Static Site Generator

8 Apr 202015 Sep 2021

Why Having A Full Post RSS Feed Is A Good Idea

4 Apr 202015 Sep 2021

How Websites Check Your Password

31 Mar 202015 Feb 2021

De-Googling My Life – 2 Years On

21 Mar 202015 Feb 2021

How To Cycle An Aquarium

19 Mar 20203 Jun 2021

How I Optimise My Website Performance

18 Mar 202018 May 2022

How The Aquarium Nitrogen Cycle Works

16 Mar 20203 Jun 2021

How to backup a Synology to Backblaze B2

11 Mar 202018 Mar 2021

Moving from Nextcloud to Synology

10 Mar 202015 Feb 2021

How To Create A Simple Install Script In Ubuntu

3 Mar 20203 Jun 2021

The Case For WordPress

4 Feb 202015 Sep 2021

How To Add CSS Dark Mode To A Website

3 Feb 20203 Jun 2021

Making A Website 06 – Finishing Touches

2 Feb 20203 Jun 2021

Decentralised SMTP Is For The Greater Good

1 Feb 202015 Sep 2021

Making A Website 05 – Adding A Blog

1 Feb 20203 Jun 2021

Making A Website 04 – Responsiveness

30 Jan 202015 Feb 2021

Making A Website – 03 Menus

27 Jan 202015 Feb 2021

Why Lobste.rs Is Better Than Hacker News

25 Jan 202015 Sep 2021

Privacy On Mainstream Media

24 Jan 202015 Sep 2021

Migrate From Windows 7 To Linux

21 Jan 202015 Sep 2021

How To Self-Host Your Web Fonts

19 Jan 20203 Jun 2021

Making A Light Website – 02 Design

18 Jan 20203 Jun 2021

Excerpt vs Full Content?

12 Jan 202015 Sep 2021

Making A Website – 01 The Basics

9 Jan 202027 Mar 2021

How To Add A Custom Colour Palette To The Gutenberg Editor

4 Jan 202018 May 2022

Categorise Or Compartmentalise?

2 Jan 202018 May 2022

How To Convert WordPress To Markdown

26 Dec 20199 Mar 2022

Privacy & Security Are Different – Round 2

24 Dec 201915 Feb 2021

Moving To Progressive Web Apps

22 Dec 201915 Sep 2021

Librem 5 – My Thoughts

18 Dec 201915 Feb 2021

Privacy & Security Are Different

17 Dec 201915 Feb 2021

Reasons Why Zoho Mail Is Better Than Gmail

14 Dec 201915 Feb 2021

How To Host Email With Your Own Domain

10 Dec 201915 Feb 2021

Coming Full Circle – From Grav To WordPress

19 Nov 201915 Sep 2021

What Is Self-Hosting?

26 Oct 201915 Feb 2021

Why You Shouldn’t Use Facebook

12 Oct 201915 Feb 2021

How Browser Fingerprinting Works

25 Sep 201915 Feb 2021

How Online Tracking Works

7 Sep 201918 May 2022

Commento – The Privacy Respecting Commenting System

2 Sep 201918 May 2022

Please Add RSS Support To Your Site

27 Aug 201915 Feb 2021

Migrating from WordPress to Grav

24 Aug 201915 Feb 2021

How To Install Nextcloud On Shared Hosting

16 Jun 201918 May 2022

How To Mount A Partition In Ubuntu

7 Jun 201915 Feb 2021

How To Setup A Nextcloud Server In Ubuntu

1 Jun 201927 Sep 2021

Improving My Ubuntu Workflow

26 May 201915 Feb 2021

My Home Server – 2 Months On

7 Apr 201918 May 2022

Privacy vs “I have nothing to hide”

21 Feb 201918 May 2022

Building My Home Server

2 Feb 201915 Feb 2021

I Nearly Lost All Of My Data!

19 Jan 201915 Feb 2021

Ditching Android – 6 Weeks On

17 Dec 201815 Feb 2021

How Plus Addressing Can Prevent Spam

9 Dec 201815 Feb 2021

Why I’m Ditching Android

3 Nov 201815 Feb 2021

Juno Computers Jupiter Laptop Review

27 Oct 201815 Feb 2021

Elementary OS Juno Review

17 Oct 201818 May 2022

Why I Use Linux

13 Oct 201818 May 2022

Are Biometrics A Good Idea?

30 Sep 201815 Feb 2021

How Migrate from Disqus to WordPress and Bypass Disqus’ Roadblocks

18 Sep 201815 Feb 2021

What Is Two Factor Authentication?

21 Aug 201815 Feb 2021

Getting Started With Mastodon

13 Aug 20187 May 2022

How To Secure WordPress

11 Jul 201818 May 2022

More or Less WordPress Theme

30 Jun 201815 Feb 2021

Fix the Large CloudStation System Tray Icon in Ubuntu

15 Jun 201815 Feb 2021

Moving To A Static Website

10 Jun 201815 Feb 2021

Microsoft Acquires GitHub – My Thoughts

6 Jun 201815 Feb 2021

Is A Password Book A Bad Idea?

14 May 201815 Sep 2021

De-Googling My Life – 6 Months On

6 May 201815 Feb 2021

Nextcloud On A Raspberry Pi 3+

1 May 201818 May 2022

Why HTTPS Is Important

22 Mar 201815 Feb 2021

Why Your Password Is Probably Crap

4 Jan 201816 Feb 2021

Are Password Managers Really Worth It?

27 Dec 201715 Sep 2021

De-Googling My Life 06 – What I Can’t Replace

9 Nov 201715 Feb 2021

De-Googling My Life 05 – Gmail

28 Oct 201718 May 2022

De-Googling My Life 04 – Google Drive

18 Oct 201718 May 2022

Why You Should Own Your Own Domain

12 Oct 201718 May 2022

De-Googling My Life 03 – Google+

7 Oct 201715 Feb 2021

De-Googling My Life 02 – Analytics

29 Sep 201715 Feb 2021

De-Googling My Life 01 – Browser & Search

10 Sep 201715 Feb 2021

De-Googling My Life Series

4 Sep 201715 Feb 2021

Things To Consider When Starting A Blog

10 Jun 201715 Feb 2021

Medium Vs Ghost – Which One For a Personal Blog?

8 Jun 201715 Feb 2021

Bitwarden – An Open Source Alternative to LastPass

20 Feb 201715 Feb 2021

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