William Turrell

If you're completely new to the NBMP, don't start here, visit the Bat Conservation Trust (BCT) website: BCT National Bat Monitoring Programme Login to NBMP Portal (for picking sites, recording survey data) Signup to Bat Monitoring Post email newsletter But

(A first-draft I expect to rewrite.)

A rolling list of things I like, where each item fits on a single line 1.

Cost: ~£115 Uses four AAA batteries (NiMH rechargeables are fine) I would highly recommend this as a first heterodyne bat detector.

I have today moved this blog from a standard WordPress installation to Jigsaw, an SSG.

Dozens of miscellaneous tips: https://laraveldaily.com/tips Tighten's Technical Debt Self-Assessment for Developers Use Laravel Pint or Tighten Duster - they're so easy to use (versus doing lots of manual PhpStorm configuration, for example) and you can a…

The symptom here was continual unwanted SMART warnings from the "realtime protector" which didn't go away despite turning it off.

TL;DR: my main objection - no ability for users to silence or even set a lower volume I assume the idea of a loud siren for government emergency alerts on smartphones was always skeuomorphic; a developer or team at Apple or Google thought - "Well they have

This post by Juliette Culver is over 12 years old but is still one of my favourite explanations of what's wrong with Drupal and WordPress for developers.

This is quite common on older Macs.

Occasionally you may need to cancel an Amazon (UK) order that's "dispatching soon" - on doing this Amazon say they'll "attempt" to, but then a short while later you get an email telling you in fact they can't, and to refuse delivery or print a return labe…

At present, there are two pieces of software that I consider superb: PhpStorm (from an astonishingly talented Prague company, which I use to write PHP, HTML, JS, CSS etc. and which error-checks your code to within an inch of its life before you run it) and

Expandrive is a program that lets you mount external connections (SSH servers, Google Drive etc.) as volumes on a Mac, so you can drag/drop/save/load as if they were local.

e.g. you're trying to view the package contents of the "Photos Library" (in /Users/[username]/Pictures/), so you can check an original file, RAW image, etc. - but you're not thinking properly, accidentally click the wrong option in the menu and send the e…

Is it any good?

Using macOS Mojave, iTunes, some apple script and BetterTouchTool (£) Create a playlist entry for the radio station in iTunes Create a script file like this: <em>bbcws.scpt: </em> tell application "iTunes" play track "BBC World Service" end tell Add a sh…

Official instructions: https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/debianbuster-nginx If you've upgraded a machine Debian 10 (Buster) or later you'll see a warning like this: /etc/cron.weekly/certbot: Your system is not supported by certbot-auto anymore. certbot…

If all your PHP errors and warnings suddenly disappear from your IDE editor window, despite you having the language level configured correctly etc., double check you haven't turned on Reader Mode by accident, as by default it hides "error and warning high…

Here's a detailed review of how Apple's mail-based, UK iPhone battery replacement service works, using two different phones in late 2020. last update 10 Dec 2020 First you start here: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/iphone/repair/service/battery-power Scr…

updated 16 March 2024 Sorry, you can no longer do this - Google have abandoned it - don't waste time trying to find solutions.