Category: geek
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So here we are, I guess. Again. I have to admit that, over the past few years, I’d been hoping that I could file Make America Kittens Again under “weird stuff that happened in the past”, but given current events I’ve received a number of emails asking for an updated version – and in particular,…
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Lately we’ve been using the Octopus Agile electricity tariff* to cut our energy bills. As we both work (mostly) from home, using electricity during non-peak periods – AKA procrastinating by doing the laundry – is easy, so it’s been saving us money. There are loads of ways to keep track of the tariff rates –…
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Mastodon v4.0.2 is out, and has some handy-looking new features. But if you’re using the old DigitalOcean droplet, which was based on v3.1.3, upgrading is a bit of a faff. Here’s how I did it – in two stages. I should not upfront that this isn’t a *recomended* method – it’s just what worked for…
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Given the current bin-fire state of Twitter it seems entirely reasonable that everyone I know there is building a survivalist-style-bunker on Mastodon. But there’s a pretty immediate roadblock that faces every person trying to set up a new account: which server to choose? While Twitter is monolithic – one site, one account, one @name –…
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The Problem If you run a self-hosted WordPress blog then you might – or might not! – be aware of the sheer volume of attempted logins that will be sent your way. A good way to monitor and cut down on this is the Limit Login Attempts Reloaded plugin, which logs and graphs them: ..…
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Some information and photos on the equipment and installation of a Community Fibre FTTP broadband connection in London SE12
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For some time now I’ve had my desk wired up using an Elgato Thunderbolt 2 dock. It’s supposed to be incompatible with Mac OS 11 Big Sur, but here’s what I found.
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It’s easy to create single In App Purchases via iTunes Connect – but if you want to add tens or hundreds, here’s how to upload them in bulk using Transporter v2.1.x on Mac.
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I’ve been playing games with Small since he was a little over three, and now that he’s four, and we’re all locked inside for the foreseeable future, I’m doing it for a few minutes almost every day. And so, as others might be doing the same, maybe for the first time, I thought I’d share…
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I joined Twitter in January 2009 for what might not have been the best of reasons – I was being miserable about it on BBC Radio, and thought I should at least make an effort to try the thing I was being professionally miserable about – and, somehow, have kept using it ever since. But,…