I have had the pleasure of knowing many cats. Most of them have consistently enjoyed a pair of interlinked zipties.

Cable connections suck. I didn’t really figure this out until recently.

I’ve always had a txt quotes file of my favourite quotes, and recently I realised that while it grows and grows, I don’t really see/remember enough of it. I already had a fancy i3 lock screen so I decided to up the ante and overlay quotes each time I lock my screen.

I recently needed to move a directory of files from Dropbox to Google drive, and apparently nobody wants to make this easy for you. So I rube-goldberg’d it for a one-off transfer.

This is a look back at a decision that has defined a recent part of my life. The decision to continue my higher education in the pursuit of an MSc after having worked for a few years. This post is in two main parts: some background of what happened before I was accepted in to a Masters programme, and the lessons I learnt after completing it.

This is a quick post that I’ve intended to put together for a long time about what happens when you buy a domain without whois privacy.

The Bus Driver’s Salute is what I call the wave that I’ve seen countless bus drivers in many different countries give each other when passing in opposite directions on their routes.

I managed to get my (first) Slack Application (xqz.es) published this week, this is the start-to-finish walkthrough

At dubizzle we lean towards a service-oriented architecture whenever it makes sense, this means that when you're developing, you may need to run several server stacks. Some of us use docker-compose, a super-convenient way of coordinating containers and easily spinning up and taking down services on your development machine (and elsewhere). This guide will walk you through some of the thicker parts of setting up such an environment. In this tutorial we assume some basic familiarity with docker.