Nextbase dash cam
In the good old days, I drove a Golf GTI. And like all impetuous young fools in souped-up Golfs, the last thing I felt like doing was recording my own youth...
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23 and me
Last month, I spat in a tube, which was then shipped to California. There are various services out there which will aim to find your long-lost relatives a...
Gaming chairs and ironing boards
I very rarely worked from home during BC (Before Covid), but obviously all that has now changed. I do have quite a nice set-up here, with a big curved desk ...
Monzo has served its purpose
The author gets cranky and identifies a random weekday in August 2020 as the day the music died for Monzo. Monzo has long been the most promising of the U...
Tech support call
Earlier today, I fielded a tech support call from a relative. They'd been forced to sign up to one of my least favourite things, a "customer portal" which i...
Car insurance
Occasionally, when having a few pints with my team after work, we talk about all the things we'll build when we've made our fortune and are just doing softw...
SFP for the Mikrotik
My Mikrotik router continues to Just Work. Unfortunately, it has five ethernet ports and I have six things I want to connect to it. So to get that one extra...
Advanced Installer
If you need to produce a Windows installer for your software, my advice would be to forget the ancient NSIS, bypass the disappointment of WiX (yes, it's fre...
Security needs to be easy for mortals
Narrator: It isn't. Two short stories from a long weekend... The success story Microsoft are a bit stingy (in my opinion) by not including Bitlocker ...
A new slice of Pi
Until last week, if you'd asked me what the longest-lasting computer I'd owned was, I would have said the laptop I had at university (lasted six years). It ...