Dariusz Więckiewicz 🇬🇧

With the arrival of yet another generation of iPhones just yesterday (09/09/2026) and the upcoming pre-order window, users will be facing a dilemma over which AppleCare plan to choose to protect their devices.

It has been a few years since I first wrote this article.

MemPalace “Memory is identity.” — mempalaceofficial.com MemPalace recently went viral – partly due to celebrity backing from Milla Jovovich, and partly due to some highly controversial benchmark claims that the AI community quickly debunked.

Have you experienced this with AI?

When Google announced that they would force us to move away from Universal Analytics to Google Analytics 4, I wasn’t happy.

I have been using the Bartender app for longer than I can honestly remember.

Over some time I have been looking for ideal Cookie Consent Banner implementation on my websites.

On the 16th of March 2022 Google announced its plans for a shutdown of Universal Analytics property and replace it fully with Goole Analytics 4 (v4) that been in the market since late 2020.

Recently, I have been in contact with several people who have been thanking me for posting articles that have helped them significantly with their technological struggles or in easing their issues.

If you follow my website and posts related to OpenWrt you have probably come across my post about installing a VPN server on an OpenWrt router using WireGuard.

The best part of the EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) is how it affects Windows 11 and the software installed on it.

The llms.txt and discussion around it recently is quite controversial.

Today’s solution is a bit unusual - my network drive (NAS) recently stopped working, and to sort it out I need to do some digging in it.

As an iPhone user, it is quite natural to choose Apple-branded devices to fulfil everyday needs.

The AI interaction is becoming more and more common.

I should have discovered this years ago!

For some time, I have been covering topics concerning OpenWrt on my website.

In the past, I have followed a method of updating OpenWrt devices with an option to restore all installed packages and their configurations without needing to spend hours on reconfiguring and testing everything.

Have you ever struggled to measure the true speed of your internet?

My OpenWrt adventures began with the ASUS RT-AC56U router.

Recently I decided to connect an UPS (uninterruptible power supply) at work to one of the devices that runs 24 hours a day.

As the number of users increases, it is time to introduce speed limits in the network.

Recently while playing Call of Duty Mobile, I would occasionally experience a sudden slowdown in the form of increased ping, which would make the game temporarily unplayable.

Recently I decided to add a USB connected printer to my OpenWrt router.

Cloudflare is known for being the next Google and providing us with high-quality services, many of which can be used for free without any compromises.

The UK’s service providers are very much behind the times when it comes to the latest technological developments.

So you want to add a torrent client to your OpenWrt router, so that you can download, for example, a Raspbian image using this method, save it to a previously connected and configured USB drive and access it from the local network?

Continuing my post Adding a USB drive to a router with OpenWrt using the USB port (using the Linksys WRT3200ACM as an example), we move on to sharing our drive on the local network.

Whether you have reinstalled OpenWrt or updated it, even though you have backed up your settings, any additionally installed packages have not (will not) been preserved, so restoring the settings will not make everything as it was.

Today I am going to discuss a topic that causes problems for people who have an Internet connection without a permanent external IP address if we want to run a VPN server on our connection, as I described in the post Installing a VPN server on a router wi…

Depending on where we use our router, we may be in a situation where we need to have a backup plan in case our primary internet connection goes down.

So you’ve decided to change the firmware on your router from the one provided by your hardware manufacturer to the more open and secure OpenWrt firmware.

If you have a router with OpenWrt, you have probably thought more than once about how to set up a VPN server on it so that you can connect to the network from outside your home or office and have access to local data, such as a network drive or printer.

You are probably aware that it is very important that the website you visit, especially the one where you enter any data (including login and password) is secured with a so-called green padlock, i.e. served by https:// before the name of the website.

My site, until recently, was using a system font stack, mostly because I would like to have the lightest website possible.

Back in 2023, I have looked at how to add relevant hreflang tags to my personal website, which considered adding self-reference to the current language, reference to a translated page (if available), and falling back with x-default to a page that is desig…

As it happened, Attended Sysupgrade with the latest version of OpenWrt 25.12, since it became the default approach to update OpenWrt devices, started seeing a spike in popularity.

Recently, I faced an issue with mwan3, a package on OpenWrt routers that is designed to manage multiple internet connections, either for load balancing or a failover.

Update 14/03/2026 Due to changes by Google and a decision to make life more difficult for users, they have decided to shut down the excellent Gmailify service and the ability to fetch emails from other mailboxes using POP.

Thanks to Cloudflare Email Routing, I can accept and send emails in my domain, but still manage them on my ordinary Gmail account.

We are living in times when AI is becoming a daily tool we use at work and at school.

Following my post from last year, in which I shared my GitHub stars for 2024, I have now reviewed what I discovered throughout 2025.

In the past, I have been exploring various ways to increase the reach of my website and other websites that I am working with, which are publishing content regularly.

In early 2025, Microsoft officially deprecated Bing News PubHub, moving away from a manual submission model for news publishers.

I have been a fan of Linux since I was young.

I recently found time to watch a very insightful, fast-paced presentation by Adam Argyle titled “25 New & Rad Features of CSS”.

Through the “interesting” days when people started migrating to Mastodon, I found a quite interesting toot from one of its users, where he mentioned adding Mastodon discoverability for any domain using the WebFinger protocol.

Days are passing by, and rolls are rolling.

On my current internet connection at home, I do not have direct access to an external IPv4 IP address from my router (only IPv6 is available).

We have been aware of the End of Life (EOL) for Windows 10 for some time.