In December last year with help from a PR raised by Belmin Began(@MaNemoj01) I added a git log to the content pages of this website, Belmin's contribution aside from being wrapped by caching has remained unchanged until today. I _like_ the addition of page history meta however, I do not want it to take over the page and in the case of some regularly updated pages that was beginning to happen.
I…
After saying goodbye to 2023 I have decided that in order to make the most of my time in 2024 I should plan out how I want to use it; this page will be a Living Document that I update throughout the year as tasks get completed. The idea being that if I ever get stuck for what to work on next I can visit this page and work on filling out the stubs.
It's…
This week I have been battling with getting a Laravel application deploying on #AWS Elastic Beanstalk and one of the issues I had was installing php-gRPC via pecl was taking way too long due to it compiling from source thus timing out the deploy.
My solution to that conundrum was to build the grpc.so file on my computer and create a rpm package file to install it. In order to do so I would…
In December last year I began exploring the vast expanses of The Indie Web and in doing so reignited my love of 88x31 button banners and the Button Boards that people display them on. After adding my own button board I became a Digital Magpie and over multiple Digital Spelunking sessions began filling out my own board with little images that bring me joy.
My _precious_
I have since made it so…
My personal computing history began in 1988/9 with my dad’s VIC20, I was three or four at the time and remember typing in BASIC and playing a lander game from a cartridge. Then in the early 90s (93 or 94) we got an Amiga 600 and it was around 1996 when I was donated my very own computer in the form of a Toshiba T5100 clam-shell “luggable”.
The first computer that was _mine_
The computer came…
A few months ago I was asked _why_ I publish the source code to this website for all to see and honestly up until that point I hadn't really put that much thought into it. I _had_ been inspired by seeing Xe Iaso linking the most recent git commit in each pages footer to do so myself and _that_ required having a public repository; but none of my previous website repositories are public so why this…
