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  • 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…

  • Initial Thoughts on the DJI Mini SE

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I went for my first flight with the DJI Mini SE and it feels very familiar, after flying a spark so frequently, until I crashed that drone. I would have replaced the spark but I didn’t because it would either cost two thirds to replace the old one, or cost a…

  • On The Desire To Change Career

    On The Desire To Change Career

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesIf I had been smart I would have changed career path around 2006-2007 when I was in London surrounded by entrepreneurs and web developers, rather than now during a pandemic. Normally I struggle to find new contracts because of two things. The first is that for camera and editing work there are…

  • Initial Thoughts on the Crosscall Core-S4

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesNot for FB or Twitter Today I started to play with the Crosscall Core-S4 and my impressions of it so far is that the Facebook and Twitter apps are not optimal for this device. They do not consider that with a small screen you should prioritise text over images. For those reasons…

  • An SVG clock

    An SVG clock

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSometimes we experiment and play with technology. The clock below is an SVG clock using SVG and Canvas technology to display local time. Doing it with these two technologies was easier than with JavaScript. The code doesn’t require calculating thousandths of a second like another clock I tried. The tutorial to…