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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The Mysteries of Docker and Kubernetes A Christmas Learning Adventure

December 15, 2023

As the festive season approaches, bringing with it a lull in the usual hustle and bustle of work and life, it's the perfect time to embark on a journey of learning and self-improvement. And what...

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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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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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Upgrading PHP to version 8.2 on Debian Linux

January 16, 2023

Today I decided to upgrade my PHP version to 8.2 on my local Debian desktop to test compatability with Laravel versions 8 and 9 and soon to be version 10 of laravel! I wrote a blog previously about...

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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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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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Azure Free Tier Debian 11 and Ansible Installing a Lamp server

November 9, 2022

Today I got an email from Microsoft azure that a 30 day trial was ending and that I now had a 12 month fee basic tier level service, which is nice. I have set up a debian box to play with, just like...

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Upgrade Apache To PHP 8.1 with Ansible on Debian

October 12, 2022

My local Debian machine has Apache and PHP working and I have set it up with this Ansible playbook github.com/allotmentandy/ansible-debian-install-desktop Today as part of the upgrade process for my...

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Ansible Debian Desktop Update Part 2

February 16, 2022

Updating the Ansible repo to install more apps, downgrade NodeJS, add a firewall to the config and get the machine working as a webserver using Apache, PHP and VS Code.

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Using Ansible To Setup My New Debian Desktop Machine

February 6, 2022

I recently bought a new computer and wanted to use Ansible to install all the software. I have installed the base debian system and now wanted to install everything I regularly use with Ansible....

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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 terraform destroy & terraform apply (Part 8)

December 20, 2021

Fixing the Terraform file to make the storage file smaller to fit in the free tier limits

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AWS EC2 Instance and Container setup with Ansible (Part 7)

December 6, 2021

I started with this tutorial https://www.agix.com.au/build-an-ec2-using-ansible-step-by-step/ The ansible code is in Part 7 of the repo github.com/allotmentandy/aws, this code creates a NEW instance...

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AWS Amazon Web Services Laravel in Docker on EC2(Part 5)

December 3, 2021

Next in this series, I am setting up a docker container to host a laravel website on AWS. Following this tutorial https://buddy.works/guides/laravel-in-docker I started with a fresh install of...

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AWS Amazon Web Services Instance with Terraform and an Elastic IP (Part 4)

December 2, 2021

Having used Ansible to setup the server in the last post, I now wanted to use Terraform to launch the instance programatically. As part of the Infrastructure as Code world I am looking to move into,...

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AWS Amazon Web Services Cloud computing and PHP part 3 using Ansible

December 1, 2021

Using Ansible to setup the LAMP stack on a clean Debian AWS server.

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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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Open Ports & Installing SSH

June 15, 2021

To connect my new Intel NUC computer to my laptop and android phone, I have used SSH with Filezilla as that is faster and easier than bluetooth and more ubiqitous. On my phone i have an app which i...

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Upgrading to PHP 8

April 15, 2021

Upgrading PHP to version 8 to run Laravel Octane and test sites locally for compatability.

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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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Ansible Ansible Ansible - Part 2

November 15, 2020

Ansible resources online, Ansible cheatsheets and Ansible Videos I really enjoyed.

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Ansible Ansible Ansible - Part 1

November 14, 2020

my first article in a series on Ansible, covering the Facts ansible can tell you about your machines and how I have been learning Ansible.

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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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Offline Documentation on Debian

November 8, 2020

A lot of the time I work offline, learning, reading, watching and playing to learn more and more. One thing i really like to use is offline tools to help me access info offline. However I am looking...

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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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Playing with PDFs

July 4, 2020

I have always loved reading, on my computer, phone, books, magazines and newspapers. I have collected a huge number of PDFs over the years. Here is how i work with them.

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RSS Feeds with Debian Linux

June 6, 2020

I have always been a fan of RSS feeds going back years. In case you don't know, RSS feeds (and ATOM feeds) are text files that provide the latest pages from a website. I use them for News, website...

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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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Rainy Day - Thoughts about Debian

April 28, 2020

8.15am in bed, it is raining, wondering what to do today. I have been using Debian Linux for years, I guess about version 5. Recently I found the 4.9 kernel caused the computer to lock / freeze...

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