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A few years ago I came across this bookmarklet that removes sticky elements from a webpage. If you're bothered by sticky headers/footers/sidebars taking up screen space and following you down the page, you click the bookmarklet to remove them and restore some calm 🧘‍♂️ Read More

I've been scribbling notes to myself as a macOS newcomer that might be helpful for anyone else coming from Linux. Read More

Old tech is great tech. In this post I enthuse about ditching social media and going back to using RSS for content discovery like in the (g)olden days of the internet 🧓 Read More

This post outlines the steps I took to install Ubuntu in WSL on Windows 11, configure Git and Docker, and connect everything to VS Code for a seamless local development experience. Read More

One of my favourite PlayStation 5 features is the ability to stream games to other devices. Linux isn't officially supported for Remote Play, but I've been using an open source client that works well with a little configuration. Here's what I did to get it set up and streaming smoothly on Ubuntu 22.04. Read More

A few months ago I read the excellent 20th anniversary edition of The Pragmatic Programmer by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt, and one of the tips I put in to practice right away was to start keeping an engineering daybook. Read More

About a year ago I was promoted from Developer to Tech Lead, and now feels like a good time to take a moment to reflect on what I've learned so far. Here are the 3 main things I've taken away from my first year in the role. Read More

In this post I'll show you how to use CSS variables to provide light and dark themes for your websites and apps that are applied automatically depending on the user's preference. Read More

Ubuntu 20.04 was released on 23 April, and it looks really good. I decided to upgrade my home laptop, and this post is a little summary of how I've gotten on with the new OS. Read More

Following a role change at work I have rather a lot more stuff to keep track of now, and my new responsibilities quickly outgrew my previous note-taking setup of plain markdown files in a notes folder. I began looking for a free, open source software solution... Read More