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Sometimes you try to do something but, much to your surprise, there’s no discoverable information on the internet to guide you.

The Web Environment Integrity proposal, authored by folks at Google, has caused quite a stir over the last week, and for good reason.

On my main desktop PC I primarily use Linux (Currently Fedora 38) but I do dual-boot with Windows for testing or for some games that don’t work quite right in Linux.

For BookStack I’ve been consistently creating videos on YouTube for almost 2 years now, but recently I’ve been thinking about providing an alternative option for the following reasons: I’ve come to really appreciate the open & connected federated world, a…

Since the start of the year I’ve been paying for general web search through the use of Kagi at about £8 ($10) per month.

There are many ways to deploy an application to a server, and often that depends on the technologies in play, access management and application setup.

After updating PhpStorm to 2023.1 I found the UI scaling on my Fedora 37 (KDE/Wayland) system was off quite significantly, with the UI being super-scaled/zoomed-in, even though the zoom setting in the IDE config was at 100% and could not be reduced.

Recently I’ve upgraded to a Synology DS220+, and with that started to use “Active Backup for Business” for Linux server backups.

Thought I’d document my current homelab setup.

As i’ve written about before, I think the term “Open Source” is quite important but it’s not uncommon to see the term stretched or misrepresented, often for business benefit.

Like many folks recently, I’ve decided to just use Mastodon instead of Twitter.

Recently, after transparently sharing BookStack funding data I’ve had a few questions from others regarding how I’ve gained sponsors.

I love open source, but publishing, maintaining & supporting an open source project can take a lot of effort & time.

I originally built my current desktop system on the AM4 AMD platform using a Ryzen 2600 CPU.

Recently I’ve been working to somewhat detach myself from Google services after seeing growing reported cases of users being suddenly locked out of their account without any possible recourse.

This year I’ve been enjoying the use of Proxmox as a way to create & manage container & virtual environments for self-hosting my applications and scripts, while also providing a useful location to quickly spin-up development test environments.

As I get deeper into the Open Source world, I’ve noticed more and more misunderstandings and misrepresentations of Open Source.

I left my previous job at the end of September 2021 to focus on BookStack and OpenSource work full time.

Important Note: This post is written without legal knowledge nor expert understanding of open-source licenses, and is my own interpretation/speculation of scenarios and licenses.

This post is a little test to play around with a few things: Images in WebP CSS grid image gallery CSS only image expand/overlay View the page source at around this point to see the CSS & HTML used.

Thought I’d document my home PC setup.

Last week I handed in my notice at my current place of work, Clevertouch Marketing, with the intent to leave at the end of September.

I often find myself needing a batch of placeholder images when testing or creating dummy content within projects.

I just wanna shout my thanks to Taylor Otwell, Graham Campbell, Mohamed Said, Dries Vints & all the other great Laravel maintainers for spending the time and effort in maintaining the LTS releases of the framework (In addition to all the other work you do…

This is a copy of an overview I wrote for people that were coming across an laravel-based file permission GitHub issue in the BookStack project.

Within BookStack I wanted to allow customizability of the theme colors in a few cases.

Having a flare-up of Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) can be a real nuisance, especially as it goes on for many days.

When building templates for the hugo static site generator you may find that you want to format post dates in a verbose format with a suffix, For example: 7th of April 2018