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01 August 2023 #technology #energy

Finding out how energy is generated in realtime.

18 June 2022 #technology #rss #opml

Many years ago youtube.com would allow you to have subscriptions sorted by a category. This is long since gone.

04 December 2021 #fi-topics #financial-independence #tutorial

FIRE: Financial Independence Retire Early

04 December 2021 #fi-topics #financial-independence #tutorial

It may sound very simple, but that’s because it is.

04 December 2021 #fi-topics #financial-independence #tutorial

Achieving Financial Independence takes time, a long time. It is the most valuable journey you could go on.

18 July 2020 #technology #code #vscode

Cheatsheet

04 May 2020 #technology #gnome

Just want to remember

27 April 2020 #projects #technology #energy #makers #tasmota #homeassistant #raspberry-pi

Open source home automation

13 April 2020 #technology #youtube

Remove all the videos from your playlist without clicking the delete button yourself.

03 April 2020 #technology #firefox #chrome #browsers

Making the internet more usable

28 March 2020 #technology #geany

so Geany (text editor) is refusing to show the underscore character

28 March 2020 #media #music

Electro Swing!

01 March 2020 #other #safety

Stay on top of the data

11 February 2020 #technology #raspberry-pi

My current home server

02 February 2020 #travel #germany #berlin

Back to Europe!

01 March 2018 #energy #makers #projects #solar #technology

I had a spare 175w solar panel, turn it into an outdoor table which supplies power

29 March 2017 #fi-topics #financial-independence #shareholding #lithium

28 November 2016 #fi-topics #financial-independence #shareholding

Remembering back to my first Shareholding trade, really, I knew nothing.

08 March 2016 #work #games

22 January 2016 #technology

I keep stumbling into OAuth every day now, in my efforts to learn how it works I’ve decided to create an OAuth Provider and integrate it into my Zend Framework Application.

06 January 2016 #technology #monitoring #dns

Want to know when your domain names are due for renewal?

15 September 2015 #travel #australia #gold-coast-australia

Time to try Australia

13 August 2014 #technology #ubuntu #linux #windows

Reinstalling is a pain, there must be a better way.

29 July 2014 #technology #linux #windows #mysql #cygwin

At my current job I am forced to use Windows 7 and do not have access to a Linux virtual machine (I would prefer to use VirtualBox running Ubuntu on my local machine for access to Linux tools).

01 June 2014 #work #games

01 January 2014 #travel #united-kingdom #newcastle-uk

Got a job at Reflections (Ubisoft)

01 July 2013 #work #media #games

08 June 2013 #technology #android #photography #timelapse

Long duration (3 day) time-lapse photography on Android with Tina Timelapse

20 May 2013 #technology #twitter #bootstrap #css

Ok, I’m sold. I’ll be switching my projects over slowly, I’ve already started with OnlyCentral.com and an administration panel. Will be switching my companys tools over as well!

18 May 2013 #travel #technology

Smartphones are the best thing since, well, I don’t know when but damn are they handy!

18 May 2013 #technology #advertising

Recently I have become increasingly annoyed at advertising on the internet.

16 February 2013 #technology

Zend View, Partial and the dreaded “Setting private or protected class members is not allowed”.

02 February 2013 #technology

I’ve been looking at ways of using reputable crowdsourcing services from within the UK. There are a few around, however I’ve always wanted to use Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk). I first learned about MTurk when the company I work for was visited by the guys at Amazon Web Services (AWS), they discussed it as one of their many AWS offerings and had quite a funny story about a CEO of a company working as a Worker on MTurk while he exercised (don’t ask how). My partner then started using it as a Worker just for fun when I realised I have a project which could do with some large scale collaborative effort.

16 September 2012 #technology #ubuntu #linux #windows

So I’ve recently installed a new SSD (Samsung 830 128GB) into my 4 month old Dell XPS 15 laptop (i7, 8GB ram) and seriously, wow! What an improvement! After re-installing Windows 7 64bit and all the updates it was ridiculous how good the machine was behaving!

16 January 2012 #technology

I’ve been hunting the internet for a good Json Pretty Print for PHP when I finally discovered one right under my nose.

22 November 2011 #technology #linux #aws #ec2

I’ve looked at the Amazon EC2 Instance Types and spotted the t1.micro. An interesting beast - at the time of writing it has 2 compute units (burstable), half a GB of RAM and as much disk space as you can throw at it with Amazon EBS.

01 September 2011 #work #media #games

14 August 2011 #technology

Early experiments in wordpress

01 January 2011 #travel #united-kingdom #dundee-uk

Moving closer to work

06 December 2010 #work #games

• Funpark Friends
• Moshi Monsters Village
• ChilliSource
  • Assisted in Open Sourcing the in-house built game engine in late 2014
• ChilliConnect
  • Designed and built the foundation of ChilliConnect with the 2x Server Steves

01 January 2010 #travel #united-kingdom #edinburgh-uk

Time for some Scottish fun

15 January 2009 #travel #united-kingdom #london-uk

Flying to UK/Europe for the first time