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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If found this post on Lobte.rs today and thought it was an excellent piece, so worth sharing. The writer talks about how the big mail corporations, like Gmail and Office 365, are so popular that they’...
In this post of the making a website series, we will add a blog to our simple site.
Our light website is coming along nicely, but there's still some work to do - today we're going to make our website responsive.
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.
Lobste.rs is WAY better than Hacker News (in my opinion). Here's why...
I’ve just been having a flick through Hacker News and I came across this post from the BBC: What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? It’s an interesting read that talks about things that many...
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.
If you're using a pre-built theme, the likelihood is that Google Fonts is being used for rendering typography. This post will show you how to self-host web fonts so you're not beholden to Google. Gett...
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.
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.
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.