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I am cooking up mostly lean protein and veg (with the odd carb) for all the reasons and took a bit of a random guess at a meal just now. It turned out to be delicious, so I share it here with you. Ingredients 1 tbsp olive oil 2 carrots (diced) 1/2 red onion (diced) 2 courgettes / zucchinis (roughly chopped into 1.5cm cubes) 500g tenderloin chicken (choped into 3cm pieces) Juice of 1/2 a lemon 4…
I'm going to try some versioned database stuff out for a project I am developing, and needed a local install of Dolt to try it out. I have a Synology unit keeping me safe from coffee-induced panic, so I thought I'd give it one more task. I used Docker to do it, as Dolt has an easy setup guide for that, and combined it with the learning in this article . It's pretty straight forward: Use Container…
Or "Unfulfilled Promises"
I found a great, inspirational response to someone struggling on Reddit, offering practical and compassionate advice on overcoming self-doubt and procrastination.
I need to generate robust, clean Word documents for an app I m building. It s something PHP libraries are bad at, and there s a great JS library for. It was only logical to use it - so what did I do?
Looking at the conclusions of the State of Laravel survey, I started pondering about my own experiences over time. Here are my thoughts, reflections and lessons learnt.
Emailing myself ideas, reflections, and growth points has become a key tool for personal and professional development. It s convenient, easy to organize, and ensures I don t forget valuable insights. By making this a regular practice, I can capture fleeting thoughts and turn them into actionable steps for continuous growth. Try it out and see how it can transform your own development process!
When capital dries up, due to changes in policy, ebbing of markets or redirected funding (ahem, Covid), major projects dry up with them. But the needs don t vanish - so here s some thoughts on how to adapt, and make every penny count.
Why is Microsoft 365 so painful? I switched lgm.ltd 's accounts to Microsoft 365 for the balance of features and because it wasn't Google. Over this last week, I needed to allow email forwarding for our help desk tickets. So I set up email forwarding following Microsoft's guidance, using Outlook Web, or the Exchange admin panel (notably not the admin panel). But it doesn't work. Some research…
Some idle thoughts
I bought the NAS originally as a replacement for cloud backup. The back-story I'll cover in another post, but essentially it was to avoid leaking all my secrets into the great unknown (don't care about utility bills and CVs - but what about Passkeys, scans of passports, banking details and so on?) Since purchasing, it's been augmented with a UPS, because the reliability of the grid and home wiring…
Apple and Google have now implemented Passkeys on their websites, and they and Microsoft have enabled them on their platforms following industry support for Passkeys. But what does it all mean? This article will give you a straightforward introduction to everything you need to know.
Passwords are important - they identify us We use passwords to try to ascertain identity. So what are their pros and cons, and what should you do about it? Did you know they are being replaced? Check out my article on Passkeys top find out what that means for you. With passwords, you share something private The idea behind a password is that it's something only you and the other party (e.g. your…
I am very excited - today I launched Professional Pointers with my co-founder, Brayden. Professional Pointers (Pointers) is a subscription platform where we will share video courses and written articles on everything we wish we knew in our careers. They'll be professionally made, and cover everything from first encounters (How do I manage a bad boss?) to advanced leadership and engineering skills.…
This week s agon: "Identify one project youd like to complete with your hands, whether chore or craft."
I built a little extension for Panic 's Nova editor, which finds all the scripts you've defined in composer.json and package.json and automatically exposes them as Nova Tasks, so you can just select and press run! I did it because it seemed lacking from Nova (VS Code and Atom both have this built in, or as a pre-installed extension) and I wanted it. Today there are 2368 installed versions of it…
The plan was to move to New Zealand for a couple of years, being mobilised by the project I'm consulting on. The trouble is, the work-life balance there (on the project) isn't great, and I didn't travel half way around the world to continue working 12h days and spending the rest commuting. So we're staying in Australia. After a year of lockdowns and Covid, and watching Australia pass by the…
Do you have non-resolutions for 2021? Here s mine.
I searched through so many options, dumb ones, cheap ones, AI ones... and settled on the Deebot Ecovacs T8+. Why? Because it represents a good robot with all the features at a central price-point. It also has an optional self-emptying mechanism, and it was on sale.
Born a Briton, I have lived and worked in France and Australia as a migrant worker. I thought Id share the stories with you, in terms of the practicalities and the experiences. So how did I get through the net? In both cases I leveraged a degree in Engineering, recognised by the Washington Accord, and relevant skilled experience, gained in respected businesses and fields. Other than those, France…
Heres what you need to know about my new creation: espresso cream-soda. Dont make it, dont drink it. What was supposed to be a fun, fizzy and refreshingly cold coffee drink was in fact more like taking a latte and then putting it through a SodaStream: disgusting and a waste of good ingredients. If you do try, remember to put the espresso in first otherwise you make a brown cream soda bomb, which…