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: What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? It’s an interesting read that talks about things that many...
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 you're not beholden to Google. Gett...
Making A Light Website - 02 Design
In this post we will looks at adding to our home page some more
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.