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.

I hope you enjoy it. Please feel free to contact me through Twitter Twitter and GitHub Github

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