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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Decentralised SMTP Is For The Greater Good
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’...
Making A Website 05 - Adding A Blog
In this post of the making a website series, we will add a blog to our simple site.
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.
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.
Why Lobste.rs Is Better Than Hacker News
Lobste.rs is WAY better than Hacker News (in my opinion). Here's why...
Privacy On Mainstream Media
I’ve just been having a flick through Hacker News and I came across this post from the BBC:
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.
How To Self-Host Your Web Fonts
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
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.
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.
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.
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.