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VS Code Themes, Fonts & Extensions

Why does it matter? I often discover great new things by looking at other peoples dot configs or seeing what someone has installed while watching a video on YouTube. With that in mind I thought I would write a post Read more…

By BWO, 10 months13 April 2022 ago
Coding

GitHub Copilot Technical Preview

GitHub Copilot I came across this a couple of months ago and signed up for the technical preview. I had mostly forgotten about it until recently when I received an email from GitHub telling me that I now had access. Read more…

By BWO, 10 months6 April 2022 ago
Troubleshooting

i3wm Zoom Screen Sharing

Zoom Problems I’ve been spending a lot of time on Zoom recently with a group of other developers and came across a slightly annoying issue were every time someone would share their screen the Zoom notification would open as a Read more…

By BWO, 10 months30 March 2022 ago
Privacy

ProtonMail Review

ProtonMail Launched back in 2014, ProtonMail is an encrypted email provider founded by former CERN scientists. The main goal of ProtonMail is to protect its users privacy, to that end it utilises both end-to-end encryption and zero access encryption, provides Read more…

By BWO, 10 months29 March 2022 ago
Trivia

Hanno The Navigator

I decided to write about something non technical for a change! Hanno (sometimes referred to as Hannon) was a Carthaginian explorer from the 5th century BCE and he’s famous for his naval exploration of the west coast of Africa. He Read more…

By BWO, 2 years26 June 2021 ago
Analysis

How Much Difference Does XMP Make?

So a few months ago I built myself a new computer and I thought it would be fun to run some benchmarks and find out exactly hoe much difference enabling XMP really makes. For reference here are the relevant specs Read more…

By BWO, 2 years18 June 2021 ago
Coding

Kilobytes vs Kibibytes

The title of this article should probably read “Kilobytes vs Kibibytes and why I hate them”, even the more technically capable of you who stumble across this blog may never have heard of a Kibibyte, I know for a fact Read more…

By BWO, 2 years9 June 2021 ago
Coding

PHP message: Connection refused

The Symptoms You log on to a server that is having performance issues, you do some basic troubleshooting only to find a PHP error log, several gigabytes in size, that contains just the one, particularly unhelpful, error message… over and Read more…

By BWO, 2 years9 June 2021 ago
Coding

ACF Fields Not Saving

The Symptoms You’re trying to save a page in WordPress that contains a large number of ACF fields, perhaps you have a custom page builder and it uses a repeater field so that users can add as many or as Read more…

By BWO, 2 years3 October 2020 ago
Coding

Enabling PHP passthru

The Backstory I was recently asked by a client to enable the passthru function in PHP, you may have been asked something similar with the exec function or a handful of others that are often disabled for security reasons. In Read more…

By BWO, 4 years14 June 2019 ago

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