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  • The Warm Sun

    The Warm Sun

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Garmin Instinct warmed up in the Spanish sun while charging.

  • Walking Into Heavy Rain

    Walking Into Heavy Rain

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes you end up walking into heavy rain. That’s what I did today. I looked at the weather and because it was meant to get better over the coming days I assumed that this evening it would get better. Instead, as I walked it started to rain a little more, and then…

  • One Year With The Garmin Instinct Solar

    One Year With The Garmin Instinct Solar

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    Reading Time: 5 minutesI bought the Garmin Instinct Solar because I was interested to see how the Solar option works. As with most watches the solar panels take several hours to recharge the watch, even during summer heatwaves. The Solar part is great, if you’re in Spain and leave your watch to recharge in the…

  • Four Years With The Apple Watch Series Four

    Four Years With The Apple Watch Series Four

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI have spent four years with the Apple Watch Series Four. Although I should feel the opposite I have found that for most of its life I have loved to hate the watch. The first thing I hate about the Apple Watches is that they’re fragile. I had a series three and…

  • Learning and Consolidation

    Learning and Consolidation

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesLearning and Consolidation are important to me. Over a year ago I wanted to learn Laravel and Angular but when I started to study them I felt lost. I felt that I didn’t understand the topics well enough. I went back to the basics. I followed several courses about JavaScript and how…

  • Of Casio and Smart Watches

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesOver the last five and a half years I have tracked every walk that I have been on, and I have tracked about five and a half million steps per year. That’s a lot of steps and a lot of going around in clrcles. Going around in clrcles makes tracking walks with…

  • Playing with Vim and Laravel

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI love using Atom because it’s light and fast, even on a six year old machine like mine. Github is soon going to archive atom. I will lose my favourite editor. That’s why I played with VS Code, Sublime Text and other solutions. Vim is the winner for now. Vim is on…

  • PHP from the Command Line

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteRecently I learned that PHP has a built in server. You don’t need xampp or any of the other solutions. All you need is terminal open, have the current directory be the one with the PHP files you want to serve and type: “php -S localhost:8000” This might sound obvious to…

  • On the Pleasure of Small Machines/Laptops

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a while I had a mac book air and I used it for everything. I saw the mac book air as the machine to use for everything except for video editing. That’s what the mac book pro was for. Eventually I sold the Mac Book Air and then I took the…

  • Apollo Comms – A Series on YouTube

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI have not studied electronics but I have studied the Google IT support course among others so I have some basics of how computers and tech work. This type of documentary series is interesting because it brings history to life, and explains how things work. It is not sensationalist, does not use…