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  • 10 June - Make Search Great Again!

    Internet search is basically useless now, I heard it described as “no longer a search engine, but an add serving platform”. The search results have deteriorated to the point where it is even worse than an add platform it is now just a market place.

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  • 06 January - Node Virtual Environment nodeenv

    If you are use to working with python virtual environments you may want to have the same experience when working with nodejs. For that you can use the python package nodenv

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  • 18 November - Chilli Crab Recipe 🌶️🦀

    It is more complicated to eat chilli crab than to cook it. This is an easy recipe. Prepare the chilli paste earlier (take about 30 mins). When you are ready to eat, it only takes 10 minutes to cook.

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  • 16 October - Philips HF3520

    My HF3520 had a mainboard failure and my attempts to repair it also failed. I have salvaged some of the components. Trying to save the environment by keeping them out of landfill in the hope someone else needs the parts

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  • 16 July - Lenovo Z13 Gen 1 Review

    Last Updated: Jan 6, 2023

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  • 10 July - Dell WD19TB screen flashing with M1 Mac

    New 2022 M1 Macbook external display flickers when plugged into the Dell WD19TB docking station.

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  • 06 February - Download page including assets loaded at runtime

    curl and wget can be used to archive a site but even with the most exotic command line switches they will omit dynamically loaded assets pulled via javascript during run time. curl and wget will not follow them and the site will not work for later offline viewing. To download all the assets including dynamically loaded data we can generate a HAR file from the developer tools view in chrome.

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  • 10 January - Arch Linux on X1 Carbon 6th Gen

    This is a bunch of random notes on installing Arch Linux on a ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th Gen.

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  • 10 January - Arch Linux Tips

    This is a bunch of random tips on Arch Linux.

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  • 09 January - Pagerduty Cloudwatch integration

    It is possible to send your own custom payload to the Pagerduty Cloudwatch integration from a Lambda (instead of via a Cloudwatch alarm). Pagerduty does not document the internals but if you publish a custom message to the SNS topic that you have a HTTPS subscription to Pager duty following these simple rules you will see the event in Pagerduty.

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