A collection of writing and resources to do with working with Linux, especailly Debian, AWS Cloud Dev-ops, PHP Web Development with Laravel, Building this website as a Static Site with Jigsaw and making it all pretty with Tailwind CSS.

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Welcome to my blog about Laravel, Jigsaw, Debian Linux, Cooking, Gardening and trying to find work... New Laptop Ansible Setup

August 28, 2025

It was about time to get a new laptop and upgrade my main computer. My requirements were for a SSD hard drive for speed, 32 Gigs of RAM, a HD resolution for the screen alongside a recomended brand...

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Welcome to my blog about Laravel, Jigsaw, Debian Linux, Cooking, Gardening and trying to find work... Image sizes every website needs

March 6, 2025

Have recently been working making images for a festival and events and have been making a number of different graphics for both printing and online graphics. And it got me thinking about the number...

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Welcome to my blog about Laravel, Jigsaw, Debian Linux, Cooking, Gardening and trying to find work... Learning Rust

November 29, 2024

I have been using Bash Shell scripts for many years, but wanted something to learn that would give me more power. I have looked at Golang, Typescript and Python but decided to give Rust a whirl. The...

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Welcome to my blog about Laravel, Jigsaw, Debian Linux, Cooking, Gardening and trying to find work... From wordpress to a static site for ilminster.net

October 30, 2024

I have found the WordPress website I have been using for ilminster.net frustrating to work with. It is complex to change the theme and plugins to work exactly as I desire. It is also slower than I'd...

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Welcome to my blog about Laravel, Jigsaw, Debian Linux, Cooking, Gardening and trying to find work... Changing my Wordpress theme to Go from Go Daddy

March 5, 2024

I decided I needed to find a new theme for my wordpress website and I searched for an open source theme which was fast. I also wanted a plain looking template which worked with the modern blocks...

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Welcome to my blog about Laravel, Jigsaw, Debian Linux, Cooking, Gardening and trying to find work... Seo Awesome Perplexity.ai Github Repo

February 2, 2024

My last post was about making the 'Awesome perplexity.ai' page on Github. It was indexed within an hour on both DuckDuckGo and Bing, but still not indexed directly on Google. I have written a tweet...

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Welcome to my blog about Laravel, Jigsaw, Debian Linux, Cooking, Gardening and trying to find work... Awesome perplexity ai

January 26, 2024

Today I have been using perplexity.ai which is a LLM ai tool which is a lot better than a search engine. I have made an 'Awesome perplexity.ai' page on github which is a list of awesome links to...

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Welcome to my blog about Laravel, Jigsaw, Debian Linux, Cooking, Gardening and trying to find work... Update on yesterdays article about seo 301 redirect issue

January 6, 2024

Yesterdays post on SEO terms that I wrote about keyword targetting has been indexed by Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo, but there are issues with a 301 redirect. It is good that it has been indexed...

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Welcome to my blog about Laravel, Jigsaw, Debian Linux, Cooking, Gardening and trying to find work... Finding work via SEO Ansible Linux Devops PHP CSS

January 5, 2024

SEO terms and what people search for when looking for a Ansible Linux Devops PHP CSS worker

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Welcome to my blog about Laravel, Jigsaw, Debian Linux, Cooking, Gardening and trying to find work... Setting up Docker, Kubernetes and AWS

December 16, 2023

The first task I have undertaken is to update my Ansible repo to install the Docker and Kubernetes software I will need for this adventure. I have used Docker quite a bit in the past and it allows...

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