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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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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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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Awesome AllotmentAndy

December 16, 2022

There are many useful github repos of links to topics called Awesome. I wanted to make something similar and some of my favourite Awesome pages include: chiraggude/awesome-laravel...

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Emergency Debian Commands when the computer crashes to try and save it

December 9, 2022

I have an old laptop that often crashes when i use it. I was taking a backup of the files on it, but it seemed to hang a lot and became unresponsive so I wanted to write a blog post about how to...

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Looking Up Domains for DNS Entries with PHP and Dig

November 23, 2022

One improvement I made today to speed up spidering website domains, is looking up the domain for a DNS-A entry. Using Curl or Guzzle is slowed down when the website has no entry in the DNS. So i...

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Using Screen and Links2 to run a PHP Web Spider and Detach the Terminal

November 22, 2022

I run a PHP based web spider to check the status of websites in londinium.com and was looking for a way to run it in the terminal. In the past I have run it using the refresh html header in a normal...

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SEO Google sitemap.xml for a Laravel website

February 18, 2022

Making sitemaps for Google with a Laravel console command and an AWK one line command line script to process the routes file.

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Automating The Terminal Create Tabs And Name Them

January 20, 2022

Scripting the terminal to open 5 tabs with titles, change to the correct directory and make the root one red.

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AWS Amazon Web Services Cloud computing and PHP (Part 2)

December 1, 2021

Part 2 - adding a Mysql database server to a debian EC2 instance

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AWS Amazon Web Services Cloud computing and PHP (Part 1)

December 1, 2021

A start of a series of blogs on setting up AWS resources to host PHP websites

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Looking For Allrounder Role Devops SEO Design Development Creative

November 16, 2021

I wanted to right a new post about the sort of job role I am looking for. In the past I have had a wide variety of roles from Creative Graphic Designer to Laravel Developer. So I wanted to outline...

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Debian commands to clean up after apt-get

April 14, 2021

Commands i run after installing or upgrading on my Debian linux box. I like to keep it clean and there is often GB's to salvage.

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Script to run build script on save

March 5, 2021

Today I decided I wanted a script to auto build the site on each save of this jigsaw blog. I was playing with the css yesterday and liked the simplicity of the npm watch command, but wanted something...

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Bash fwf ranger

November 8, 2020

I was recently looking for videos to help me improve my bash terminal skills and found this video by Marie-Helene Burle Fun tools to simplify your life in the command line The two tools i really...

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Bash Scripts for Laravel PHP Linux Devops

August 25, 2020

Having spent the summer learning more of the Devops toolkit, I often come back to bash shell scripts to achieve something. I wanted a little script to import the values of the .env file to use in...

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Moving into Devops

July 27, 2020

In my last contract role, I spent more time working with the Devops team than the frontend team. I really enjoyed it and now feel that this is a better path for me. I have been using the command line...

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Looking for work

June 5, 2020

I am looking for work in London or remotely. I have years of experience in web development, web design and in IT in general. Also available in West London on an hourly basis to help you fix your IT problems, like wifi, virus removal, updates, installation and more...

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My New Post Bash Shell Script

May 17, 2020

I like to make shell scripts to make my life easier. this is my current newPost script. It isnt very comlicated, but gives me a simple blank post, quickly. I would like it to format the $something...

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