Writing

• 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.:brAt WWDC 2013 which is almost 7 years ago as I write this a feature was released for OSX Mavericks which allowed you to program notifications into websites, a useful feature that unfortunately some sites use instead of RSS feeds and little allow customisation.:brEven though this feature was released 7 years ago it has yet to be released on iOS or iPadOS 6 or maybe 7 years later.

• 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 found one that included 2 controllers a memory card and any two games. Those two games I selected were Gran Turismo and Final Fantasy VII.

• 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, whenever I look at a website which is plain white after I have used a dark website for a while it is rather jarring.

• An ode to the greasy spoon

  Well, not an ode, that would require a certain amount of poetic razzmatazz that I am not best placed to do myself.

• 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 interested in myself. Put simply, if you want to watch anything other than on demand services you need to get a TV Licence and this will cost around £150 for a year unless you are over a certain age where it is free or you are registered blind and get 50% off. What if you just want to watch On Demand stuff? Then this next bit is for you.

• 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 and secure this can damage your reputation as a business.

• 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 people would be interested in reading and then being content around where it is posted.