Writing
How long does it take to fuel a car?
Every so often on social media I see a pet where someone says "it takes me 5 minutes to fuel my car and I get loads of range, EVs can't do that. Initially I thought, yeah you have a point but then I thought about it more
Getting HomeKit Bridge working on Home Assistant with Openmediavault
Openmediavault is a media management server which runs on Debian, as a core part of this it uses zero config DNS to advertise the services it uses like SMB, File Services, Time Machine and that kind of thing. I like using it as it allows me to run docker containers as well as serve off a bunch of files.
Why are we short changed on Chicken Wings?
I am a big fan of chicken wings, thighs are a very close second and honestly the rest of it I could take or leave unless unhealthily prepared with 11 herbs and spices.
Delays in Hospital Programming
This isn’t really an NHS thing or an actual hospital thing, I don’t really have much I can say on those things but this is more about the entertainment industry told through three hospitals
Why doesn’t Safari outside of MacOS allow notifications
The whole Apple antitrust talk has got me thinking about something else and that is about Safari Notifications. At WWDC 2013 which is almost 7 years ago as I write this a feature was released for OSX…
Hey let’s talk about in app purchases
I think it is time we discussed the ecosystem around apps which are on the Apple App Store and around how it works with managed services and how there’s an almost two tiered system with who is allowed to keep a margin and who has to pay Apple 30% for card processing.
Not Quite Final Fantasy VII Reboot
I think it was my 14th birthday, with some birthday money in the wallet I went with my dad to the local computer games store and had the aim of buying a Playstation. I had looked at the deals and…
Website Dark Modes
With MacOS Mojave it introduced an operating system wide dark mode, which is great as I prefer it and now with it coming to iOS 13 I will look to use it there as well, but there is a problem…
UK Wirecutting Guide
The UK has a lot of different ways in which you can watch TV without watching Live TV, but I will add some parts around that in here towards the end because of an unfortunate genre which I am a bit…
Responsible disclosure
People make mistakes, this is why in software engineering testing is as important a role in development as developing the software itself. if you cannot as a team delivery software which is reliable…
On the subject of content management systems
Content Management Systems have traditionally been systems developed on a platform which runs some code, hosts some files, and stores data around the content and application in the database.
One Day I will have time to write in the blog
I think that day will be today, normally I have a kind of issue around writing a blog, mostly around the fact that writing it is something I have to remember to do, then thinking about words that…