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This article is a culmination of learning on a 6 week ‘bet’ of mine where I wanted to push foward with learning more on Next.js I’m envisaging running SaaS products using this tech The output in a project called https://github.com/djhmateer/minimal-nextjs…

I’ve been using Digital Ocean Spaces but need S3 storage providers based in Europe with no US ownership: Hetzner (Germany) Object Storage announced in Dec 2024. 5.99 Euro/month - regardless of how many buckets you have 1TB-hour of included storage 1.5GB t…

I’ve used Cyberduck for years as an S3 viewer for files in Digital Ocean Spaces.

A look into how TypeScript validation works in VSCode/Cursor Language Server - tsc Code Formatter - Prettier Linter - ESLint Code repo https://github.com/djhmateer/ts-testing Language Server VSCode / Cursor integrates with TypeScript via the Language Serv…

How to Archive Single URLs: A Guide Need to archive webpages but are unsure how to go about it?

https://adventofcode.com/ For the joy of finding things out, I thought I’d try AoC Other challenges like Project Euler are here JavaScript / TypeScript I’ve never really tried out the JS/TS world, so this is an opportunity.

I’m exploring a new stack React / Next.js Vercel Supabase So I can work on this professionaly for a client put my company website https://hmsoftware.co.uk/ onto a TailwindCSS template which uses Next.js create marketing emails using https://react.email/ H…

replayweb.page is very useful for viewing wacz files.

These are my notes for building a new Proxmox 8 server.

Goal: to be able to deploy a VM running certbot many times via an Azure CLI bash script, and have the SSH cert stored somewhere.

Uploading files on any web framework can be hard.

I’m trying to restore an MSSQL database using .bak file (800GB) .trn transaction log files And getting: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: The log or differential backup cannot be restored because no files are ready to rollforward.

Bots have found 3 of my low traffic sites and are continually posting to pages including https://osr4rightstools.org/account/register I didn’t mind until my email transport provider Postmark blocked me due to spam compaints.

Previously I’ve looked at running an LLM locally on my CPU with TextGenerationWebUI Also I’ve looked at ChatGPT-4 vision for my use case of: give a traumatic rating of 1 to 5 (so human rights investigators are warned of graphic images) describe the image…

Kids love games, and Scratch is a good platform to play with.

Update 15th Jan 2024 - this is a great API and describes images very well for my use case.

This post is a work in progress as I continue building theskatefarmcic.co.uk See previous post on setting up Wordpress as a vanilla install using on my Proxmox Home Lab with nginx reverse proxy and certbot for SSL.

I’m building a website for a friend for his new Skate Park theskatefarmcic.co.uk It is a Wordpress site (of which I’ve installed many times), but this post explains an interesting redirect issue.

Website running Wordpress, all content generated by AI and all images.

In this article I’ll show how I used ChatGPT4 to: Get ideas for a business Create a responsive HTML website using Tailwind CSS (screenshot above) Generate very good content Generate Imaages Do in less than a day Intro In my series of exploration of LLM’s /

I use Let’s Encrypt for SSL certs for all my sites.