I’ve always enjoyed drawing, but with a pencil and paper. I recently discovered Procreate on my iPad and decided to buy it. Since then I’ve had a lot of fun playing around with different drawing techniques. In this post I’m …
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It really frustrates me when I subscribe to a new RSS feed, only to find that the feed contains an excerpt of each post instead of the full content. This post talks about why I think that’s a problem. If …
Ever wondered how websites check your password? I mean, how can they check your password without being able to read your password? It’s a catch 22, surely? So you login to one of your many online accounts, you enter your …
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. I recently received an email from a reader asking me …
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. Before adding livestock, it’s very important to cycle an aquarium first. Cycling …
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 …
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 …
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. So you want to backup a Synology to Backblaze B2? …
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. So why move from Nextcloud to Synology? I think …
Some people like to upgrade their installation when a new version of Ubuntu is released, personally I like to nuke and pave a new installation so I’m starting fresh. This post will show you how I created a simple install …
