I found myself recently wondering, what exactly is private data? What i mean is, how much information about me is too much for a stranger to know. Of course there is Personally Identifiable Informa...

This post details the steps required to run your own tile server and import data from open street map. I’ll also show you how to import your own points data, so you can plot layer data into the ser...

So three years ago, i made a little program and I’ve decided to finally do a little writeup on it. Im a big football fan and i love to place a little bet. Every January and summer im constantly re...

As a millennial who develops software, I use other peoples libraries whenever I can to get the job done as quickly as possible. Unless its something particularly bespoke, there is always a library ...

I’m trying to learn Kubernetes so I am playing around with MicroK8s to run a deployment locally on my Ubuntu Virtual Machine. This post describes a basic deployment of HTTPBin in a cluster of thre...

I have just passed my CISSP exam (28th January). It took me around 2 hours and I had to complete the full 150 questions. My main takeaway from the exam is that the exam is much harder than any of t...

Where i currently work, i run company wide 5-a-side football sessions. The pitch hire costs around £45 and I charge £5 per person. Unless people pay me promptly, i quickly start to run out of pocke...

In Windows 10, the useful option to open a terminal window from the right click context menu has been removed. This is really frustrating and even when you make the necessary changes, the registry ...

I was recently using Couchdb with a VueJS frontend and found that as my web app became more complicated, the RESTful responses became gradually really slow to the point of being almost unresponsive...

This post talks you through the steps of setting up an Mosquitto broker hosted on AWS then connecting to it with a Transport Layer Security (TLS) connection. I am using just the standard Amazon Ma...