Category: Computing

  • how am I getting on? again

    Back in December 2021 I had an interview with the company I worked for at the time. It was for something called a career experience (internship) and allowed people to step up from a Retail position and do something that would allow them to grow and see if they wanted to move into a new […]

  • breathing life into the mac mini

    TL:DR. it is now not running macOS and I have 16GB of RAM inside it. If you’e been here before you know I have a 2012 Mac mini server.It’s pretty old now and I’ve been meaning to do something about it. I wasn’t sure what that would be but after a little research, rather than […]

  • Cloudflare tunnel adventure

    What am I talking about? Have you ever wanted to connect to a device inside your home network using FQDN? eg. myserver.mydomain.com, or proxmox.mydomain.com. If you have there are few options. In the past I’ve opened up ports on my router and would forward traffic through and play with CNAME’s in the DNS records of […]

  • Woocommerce to Shopify

    This was a bit of an undertaking. My wife runs a small shop and workshop space and we’ve been been through a couple of e-commerce platforms. First we have Squarespace. This was a great first website the designer got it all looking sweet and boom. It worked. We had workshops on the website and then […]

  • How am I getting on?

    It’s nearly Christmas 2021 and the last 6 months have been fascinating. I’ve learnt a lot about languages that I didn’t think I knew much about and built some little projects that have helped me understand processes. I made an RGB slider website that allows me to change the background colour and then copy the […]

  • Javascript – Why did I take so long?

    For years I have been circling around web development. Making websites in HTML, learning how to put together modular sections with PHP and styling it out with CSS. I even delved into mysql and worked out how to access data. What I didn’t do was spend any time with javascript. I’ve know idea why! I’ve […]

  • Notes on Ruby

    I thought I’d write some note on my month of Ruby. Mainly to cement my learning. I find writing things down helps my process. I’ll keep adding to post as and when I want to make a note of something I find interesting. Comments: Variables: You set a variable by giving it a name eg. […]

  • Learning a language

    I was in a position that allowed me to learn Ruby this month. It is a language I had never spent any time with and I really enjoyed it. I was given codecademy.com as the platform to use and jumped straight in. I’m not new to coding so most of the concepts I picked up […]

  • ngrok to the rescue

    Port forwarding with a public IP address is fine. But without a public IP address you need to be a little bit more savvy. I currently have that situation with Carrier Grade NAT with my internet service provider. It is often the case with LTE connections and I believe it is the case with Starlink […]

  • unifi headless macOS

    Unifi is a great system. I’ve had a UniFi AP since about 2010 and they have been rock solid for my use. They are the go to recommendation when someone asks me about improving their wifi at their home. The controller is great and I always like to run my headless on a Mac rather […]