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.
Scraping Racing Post Horse Prediction System Tips
December 4, 2023
I discovered a tool for scraping the racing post on github and it worked. It was simple to download the entire days racing cards into a json file with the command So my weekends coding project was...
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The sort of work I am looking for
November 28, 2023
Skills I have to offer employers and the sort of roles I am available for.
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Hard Drive Failure rebuilding Debian from Backups
November 13, 2023
Yesterday afternoon, my hard drive failed. I had made a comprehensive backup the day before, but it is still a pain to build a new system from scratch. The hard drive had been quite noisy and I had...
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Using Linkedin for social interaction and Wordpress part time or contract job hunting
October 31, 2023
Last night on Twitter, I was disussing the lack of interaction on my tweets and someone suggested Linkedin was much better for getting more comments, messages and replies. I havent used Linkedin...
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Using WP CLI to manage a Wordpress website
October 25, 2023
I am a big fan of the command line and often have 7 terminal tabs open on my computer. I found the wp-cli tool to manage a Worpdress website from the command line and i love it. It is much faster to...
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Wordpress Theme using Underscores
October 18, 2023
WordPress, with its user-friendly interface and endless possibilities, has become the platform of choice for many website owners and developers. When it comes to creating a unique, tailor-made...
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Fixing the twitter 100% cpu issue in the chrome browser
September 29, 2023
Since tweetdeck was put behind the paywall of Twitter, I have been using the vanilla Twitter which is awful, but the only way to access the twitter site. One thing I found straight away is that it...
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Installing a Wordpress blog locally with https ssh and plugins
April 28, 2023
I recently inherited a Wordpress website that needed updating to the latest version of Wordpress and a general cleanup. Wordpress has gone through a lot of changes in the past few months and one...
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Analyse a website for seo errors malware domain rank
March 6, 2023
As part of my job search, I began looking at ways to analyse and test a company website to see how good it is. I am looking at a number of criteria. Firstly, I use Wappalyzer to see what...
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Debian unstable apt get, update kernel and force remove apt errors
February 27, 2023
This weekend I decided to go for an full Debian dist-upgrade / full-upgrade on my main linux Debian machine. I had a growing list of 'The following packages have been kept back:' and so I decided to...
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