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.
How To Convert WordPress To Markdown
Markdown is a simplified version of HTML. If you want to know how to convert WordPress to Markdown, you should probably read this post.
Privacy & Security Are Different - Round 2
I recently wrote a post explaining that I think Privacy & Security Are Different. Following that post I've received some feedback questioning my rationale. This post is a response to some of that feedback.
Moving To Progressive Web Apps
Where possible, I have decided to transition from native apps to Progressive Web Apps (PWA) on my mobile devices. If you want to know why I think they're a much better solution than native apps, please read on.
Librem 5 - My Thoughts
The Librem 5 is way overpriced for what it is. I'll be surprised if they sell a single unit.
Privacy & Security Are Different
I regularly see people using the terms Privacy and Security interchangably online. I wanted to take a couple of minutes to explain the differences between the two.
Reasons Why Zoho Mail Is Better Than Gmail
Zoho mail is a far better product than Gmail and in this post I intend to prove it to you.
How To Host Email With Your Own Domain
In this post I'm going to show you how to setup email with your own domain using the same company I use to host my email, Zoho.
Coming Full Circle - From Grav To WordPress
After all my messing around with different blog platforms, I've come full circle and gone back to WordPress.
What Is Self-Hosting?
What actually is \"self-hosting\"? It means different things to different people. This is what it means to me...
Why You Shouldn't Use Facebook
Facebook is the worst place on the internet. It's a privacy vortex of doom and here are just SOME of the reasons why you sholdn't use it,
How Browser Fingerprinting Works
Browser fingerprinting is the process of collecting information about a remote device for identification purposes. Here's how it works...
How Online Tracking Works
I'm going to try and explain how online tracking works. I think I have a relatively good understanding of things, but it's a complicated subject, so I'll try and keep it as simple as possible.
Commento - The Privacy Respecting Commenting System
Commento is a fanstic, privact respecting alternative to 3rd party commenting services like Disqus.
Please Add RSS Support To Your Site
Having an RSS feed is a great way of allowing readers from all over the internet consume your conent. But please, make sure the entire post is in there!
Migrating from WordPress to Grav
After quite the evolution of blogging platforms and services, the latest iteration of this blog is based off of Grav.
How To Install Nextcloud On Shared Hosting
After writing my Nextcloud setup guide, people have asked me whether they can install Nextcloud on shared hosting, like cPanel.