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...

I recently tried to get Debian integrated into Windows Server 2012 Active Directory but found myself frustrated with a lack of detailed/current documentation. There is a guide on the Debian website...

Animated_CogsSo I am starting to get my head around Adobe Illustrator to create SVG images which is a really useful skill for web design. I followed a number of Youtube tutorials and felt confident...