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Notes drawn from experiences in consumer and enterprise technology

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There are times when I just need to share some links outside the fleeting environment of Twitter, and this is where they might appear. The practice is very much in the spirit of the original weblog idea when it was about link sharing and not about writing down one's thoughts as it subsequently became before sharing of photos, videos and other multimedia content became a mainstay of (legal) sharing for some people. Nothing here implies ownership on my part or any infringement on the copyright of others.

27th August 2025, 17:07

Recently, I found the Textpattern links to Website Informer instead of actual example websites for some reason. The service might have other uses too.

12th August 2025, 20:53

Beelink

28th April 2025, 15:52

Get Safe Online

19th March 2025, 21:53

Red Sift Certificates

Monitoring Service Options

18th March 2025, 15:22

This may prove useful for those IT professionals who need to customise and deploy Windows:

Windows Automated Installation Kit

17th March 2025, 19:51

How To Turn LanguageTool Rules On and Off

14th February 2025, 10:19

Obsidian

15th January 2025, 13:22

Control the installation and use of new Outlook

26th December 2024, 17:35

What Is My IP Address?

6th December 2024, 01:44

SimplyStatic

22nd September 2024, 21:46

How to Use the Photoshop Save for Web Tool

12th September 2024, 22:47

Change or set the default font in Outlook

29th August 2024, 23:39

The Best Linux on ARM Operating Systems for 2023

25th August 2024, 21:44

Installing PowerShell on macOS

21st January 2024, 17:32

How to Run Cron Jobs Every 5, 10, or 15 Minutes

15th January 2024, 17:58

How to Use Content Aware Fill in Photoshop (The Easy Way)

15th January 2024, 17:58

How to connect to Linux Samba shares from Windows

15th January 2024, 13:23

winget.run

14th January 2024, 18:44

Set up a Dev Drive on Windows 11

6th January 2024, 22:20

Switching Between SD Card Slots on the Pentax K-3 III

23rd December 2023, 21:47

How to stop websites from sending Bitdefender Safepay notifications

18th December 2023, 16:33

How to stop Edge from asking to be default browser

19th November 2023, 22:26

Troubleshoot crash or freeze in Photoshop

Install previous versions of your Creative Cloud apps

12th May 2023, 09:32

HedgeDoc

17th March 2023, 16:30

AbyssGuard

14th March 2023, 19:35

Avoid The Hack: The Best Pi-Hole Blocklists

24th February 2023, 20:11

Asana vs. Jira: Which is best?

20th February 2023, 01:31

Make a photo look like a painting

3rd February 2023, 23:59

Can I use BBC Sounds with my Alexa device?

Alexa Skills: BBC Sounds

27th January 2023, 11:00

How to take a full-page screenshot with a hidden Chrome shortcut

23rd January 2023, 14:53

Neurodivergent? Why you should learn how to automate.

12th January 2023, 10:15

Fedi.Directory

12th January 2023, 10:12

Mastofeed

10th January 2023, 17:12

Proton Mail Bridge Microsoft Outlook for Windows 2019 setup guide

4th December 2022, 22:39

LanguageTool in VS Code

LanguageTool Tips and Tricks

Set up a LanguageTool server on Linux Mint

1st November 2022, 15:17

Standard eBooks

29th October 2022, 19:49

How to Use SCP Command to Securely Transfer Files

27th October 2022, 17:00

[FIX] Memory integrity due to Incompatible drivers cannot be enabled in Windows 11

25th October 2022, 13:49

How to change the maximum number of IMAP connections in Mozilla Thunderbird

23rd October 2022, 18:06

How to list, display and view all cron jobs in Linux

22nd October 2022, 11:49

F-Droid

22nd October 2022, 11:48

Why choose the Tutanota desktop clients?

22nd October 2022, 11:47

Quick Guide to Use F-Droid

12th October 2022, 13:25

Magical Jelly Bean

12th October 2022, 11:47

Zoho

12th October 2022, 11:44

DuckDuckGo

12th October 2022, 11:43

Jitsi

12th October 2022, 11:42

hCapctha

12th October 2022, 11:41

Supabase

12th October 2022, 11:40

GalliumOS

12th October 2022, 11:40

PINE64

12th October 2022, 11:38

KeePassXC

12th October 2022, 11:37

Authy

12th October 2022, 11:36

Aegis Authenticator

11th October 2022, 14:14

Visual Studio Code Online

3rd October 2022, 17:51

What are webhooks?

29th September 2022, 12:06

How to unpack .tgz file on a Linux

20th August 2022, 16:06

Kanban 101: The ultimate guide to using Kanban

29th July 2022, 15:34

How to Create a Letterhead in Microsoft Word

25th July 2022, 09:16

Rosetta Stone

22nd July 2022, 19:03

What is a Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)?

21st July 2022, 17:40

OWASP SEDATED

21st July 2022, 14:20

OpenSSF

20th July 2022, 17:47

How to set rsync speed limit from eating all bandwidth with ‐‐bwlimit option

1st July 2022, 09:05

Atlassian Community

Atlassian Developer

Atlassian Documentation

Atlassian Support

Jira Software

1st July 2022, 09:00

Strategy for Jira

29th June 2022, 14:05

How to Stop Animated Images in a Browser

26th June 2022, 16:43

Cloud Native Computing Foundation

26th June 2022, 13:26

How to Reduce Eric Jones Spam (and all the other Contact Form Spam)

26th June 2022, 12:42

OWASP Top Ten

26th June 2022, 12:41

OWASP API Security Project

26th June 2022, 12:40

API Security Tools

25th June 2022, 19:36

The API Landscape

24th June 2022, 17:13

Well Aware Security

20th June 2022, 15:32

Start11

14th June 2022, 14:13

Handling False Positives with the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set

26th May 2022, 13:10

The best online whiteboards

27th April 2022, 14:53

REDCap

22nd February 2022, 20:59

robots.txt is not valid

22nd February 2022, 18:54

How to create a solid and secure Content Security Policy

18th February 2022, 18:51

Gunicorn

18th February 2022, 16:45

Protecting WordPress with Open Source Web Application Firewall ModSecurity

16th February 2022, 14:35

Dandelion API

16th February 2022, 09:32

Extract Information from Intelligent Tagging API Response

13th February 2022, 19:42

WebPageTest

13th February 2022, 08:55

How to Eliminate Render-Blocking Resources: a Deep Dive

13th February 2022, 08:54

PurifyCSS Online

9th February 2022, 09:02

Cactus Comments

8th February 2022, 09:57

Coral

8th February 2022, 09:56

Matrix

8th February 2022, 09:55

ReplyBox

8th February 2022, 09:54

How to Deploy Self-Hosted Discourse Forum With Global CDN

8th February 2022, 09:53

firewalld

8th February 2022, 09:52

To Fix The Docker and UFW Security Flaw Without Disabling Iptables

5th February 2022, 15:32

How to mount cdrom in Linux

5th February 2022, 15:31

How to add bash auto-completion in Ubuntu Linux

29th January 2022, 21:14

Staticman

29th January 2022, 21:13

GraphComment

29th January 2022, 21:12

Remarkbox

27th January 2022, 11:54

Dillinger on SNAP

27th January 2022, 11:52

Homebrew

23rd January 2022, 08:32

Netlify

22nd January 2022, 10:48

Installing snap on Debian

16th January 2022, 13:55

42 Steps to the Perfect Canon EOS RP Setup

13th January 2022, 09:43

How to Disable Read-Only in Excel

24th December 2021, 17:59

Nitrokey

10th December 2021, 17:04

Scrum: An Introduction for Developers

30th November 2021, 15:11

QuickLaTeX

17th November 2021, 08:16

5 of the best automated proofreading software tools

9th November 2021, 13:18

Colormind

9th November 2021, 13:18

Brandmark

4th November 2021, 10:00

How to Find Windows Spotlight Images

2nd November 2021, 20:40

EdgeDeflector

2nd November 2021, 20:38

Lighttpd

2nd November 2021, 20:37

Wallpaper Cave

2nd November 2021, 20:37

StartAllBack

30th October 2021, 13:57

List of Fixes for WordPress Site Health Status

26th October 2021, 20:09

Postman API Platform

26th October 2021, 16:15

Azure products

26th October 2021, 16:14

The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing

24th October 2021, 17:09

What is the best alternative to GTMetrix?

24th October 2021, 17:09

WP Fastest Cache

24th October 2021, 17:08

How To Convert VirtualBox Disk Image (VDI) and img to Qcow2 format

24th October 2021, 17:07

How to enable TPM and secure boot on KVM?

24th October 2021, 17:06

Windows 11 on KVM – How to Install Step by Step?

8th October 2021, 15:31

Optimizilla

8th October 2021, 15:29

Enable Virtualization-based Protection of Code Integrity in Microsoft Windows

5th October 2021, 18:25

Gdu

2nd October 2021, 11:46

A Comprehensive Guide to Using Cronjobs

28th September 2021, 14:48

Automation Anywhere

24th September 2021, 14:56

Travis CI

23rd September 2021, 13:06

Sitecore

22nd September 2021, 17:08

Cloudinary

22nd September 2021, 09:12

Crontab.guru

20th September 2021, 08:35

Integrating AbuseIPDB with Fail2Ban - Automatically Report Bad IPs

17th September 2021, 13:24

AbuseIPDB

18th August 2021, 08:46

How to List and Delete UFW Firewall Rules

17th August 2021, 18:26

Use Webmin for Linux Administration

17th August 2021, 18:25

Webmin: One big drawback to using this data centre management tool

13th August 2021, 10:32

MySQL Bin Files Eating Lots of Disk Space

12th August 2021, 18:05

How to prevent the "are you sure you want to leave this page?" prompt on Facebook?

11th August 2021, 11:41

How to Get the Size of a Directory in Linux

27th July 2021, 17:59

How to Mount an NFS Share in Linux

23rd July 2021, 11:03

How to enable AMD Virtualization on the Aorus X570 Motherboard

13th July 2021, 08:16

UUP Dump

7th July 2021, 09:45

Use mail flow rules to automatically add meetings to calendars in Exchange Online

6th July 2021, 15:40

H5P

1st July 2021, 10:13

How to install Windows 11 Insider preview on unsupported devices

28th June 2021, 14:55

diagrams.net

24th June 2021, 13:30

JFrog

5th June 2021, 23:47

Zabbix

28th May 2021, 11:10

wkhtmltopdf

28th May 2021, 10:58

Server Backups to Google Drive Using the Drive CLI Tool

28th May 2021, 10:58

drive

28th May 2021, 10:57

dbxcli: A command line tool for Dropbox users and team admins

27th May 2021, 08:58

Lustre

16th May 2021, 13:46

Continuous Delivery

11th May 2021, 17:01

FileInfo

22nd April 2021, 16:47

Cisco DevNet

22nd April 2021, 10:00

State of Agile

22nd April 2021, 10:00

DevOps Institute

16th April 2021, 11:37

Site Reliability Engineering

16th April 2021, 11:36

The Twelve-Factor App

16th April 2021, 11:33

The Cluster API Book

16th April 2021, 11:32

Knative

15th April 2021, 12:52

TeXstudio

8th April 2021, 13:08

POP, IMAP, and STMP settings for Outlook email accounts

17th March 2021, 09:42

GitHub Guides

17th March 2021, 09:40

Coolors

Color-hex

9th March 2021, 14:06

PDFsharp & MigraDoc

2nd March 2021, 18:42

Excel Tips

2nd March 2021, 18:38

SnapLogic

27th January 2021, 13:37

How to increase the root partition size on Fedora

27th January 2021, 13:35

TbSync

27th January 2021, 13:34

Connecting to Microsoft Exchange Calendar from Mozilla Thunderbird

10th January 2021, 11:10

How to Rip DVDs With VLC

10th January 2021, 11:09

How to Convert Video Formats on Linux

17th December 2020, 09:41

WordPress – Mod_security problems with posts and comments fixed

6th December 2020, 20:54

PowerShell: About Execution Policies

11th November 2020, 14:44

s-tui

10th November 2020, 16:00

Typora

9th November 2020, 09:18

Git Cola

9th November 2020, 09:17

Code with Mu

9th November 2020, 09:15

Stencila

19th October 2020, 09:27

How to Remove Menus From the WordPress Dashboard

10th October 2020, 13:36

QMapShack

7th October 2020, 16:12

QGIS

29th September 2020, 14:03

Mastodon

29th September 2020, 14:02

Fediverse

18th September 2020, 12:36

Pi-hole Documentation

9th September 2020, 16:45

Download Microsoft Teams

Get clients for Microsoft Teams

13th July 2020, 13:43

Leanpub

8th March 2020, 13:48

Using Docker macvlan networks

26th February 2020, 17:05

Apache PageSpeed

16th February 2020, 13:14

AWS Blocker

15th February 2020, 20:34

Blocking poneytelecom.eu

14th February 2020, 09:46

Pi-hole

28th January 2020, 20:21

WhatIsMyBrowser.com

17th January 2020, 18:37

Find and Disable Specific ModSecurity Rules

17th January 2020, 12:45

MDN Web Docs

17th January 2020, 12:44

AskApache

17th January 2020, 12:43

RFC Editor

16th January 2020, 21:01

OWASP

16th January 2020, 20:59

ModSecurity

15th January 2020, 12:19

Apache Security — Configuring Secure Response Headers

24th December 2019, 14:41

Fail2ban

31st August 2019, 12:51

Visual Studio

14th July 2019, 07:04

How do I re-add a book after I'd accidentally deleted it from Google Library?

11th June 2019, 14:16

WickedlySmart.com

10th June 2019, 14:46

Snapcraft

29th January 2019, 13:34

Customize button functions for Evoluent Vertical Mouse 4

8th December 2018, 09:59

mysqlcheck — A Table Maintenance Program

mysql_config_editor — MySQL Configuration Utility

5th December 2018, 15:53

Show the slide number and total number of slides on every PowerPoint slide

4th December 2018, 21:28

Enabling HTTP Secure (HTTPS)

26th November 2018, 18:03

 Configure Postfix to Send Mail Using Gmail and Google Apps on Debian or Ubuntu

26th November 2018, 18:02

Configure Postfix to Send Mail Using an External SMTP Server

25th November 2018, 11:42

The TCP/IP Guide

25th November 2018, 11:41

DNS Knowledge

25th November 2018, 11:38

How to send e-mail in WordPress

25th November 2018, 10:51

Configuring Gmail as a Sendmail email relay

25th November 2018, 10:45

How to Set up and Configure Postman SMTP on WordPress

21st October 2018, 11:02

Yawcam

13th October 2018, 09:05

Haiku

9th September 2018, 10:06

Can I set a default opening filter in Lightroom?

21st June 2018, 11:35

Close the Tools pane in Acrobat Reader DC

31st May 2018, 15:17

Textpattern plugin libraries:

Jukka Svahn

29th May 2018, 20:48

Byte Check

28th May 2018, 11:02

Email Obfuscator

28th May 2018, 10:26

RGB to Hex

28th May 2018, 09:54

Optimizing the use of the Google Font API

16th May 2018, 11:24

Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List

13th May 2018, 23:13

How to Make a Favicon Small and Cacheable

12th May 2018, 10:59

GTmetrix

12th May 2018, 10:52

AWStats

12th May 2018, 10:32

PageSpeed Insights

18th April 2018, 12:23

How to troubleshoot the error code "SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER" on secure websites

15th April 2018, 09:34

Craft

14th April 2018, 10:08

The Muse

13th April 2018, 22:25

TED

29th March 2018, 09:59

SoftwareQATest.com

28th March 2018, 17:44

ProFont

28th March 2018, 16:37

Literate Programming

28th March 2018, 15:58

Agile Alliance

28th March 2018, 14:00

The Pragmatic Bookshelf

28th March 2018, 12:31

IEEE Computer Society

25th October 2017, 23:34

The care and feeding of software engineers (or, why engineers are grumpy)

25th October 2017, 23:32

Six reasons why the NHS National Programme For IT failed

25th October 2017, 23:31

Queensland Government Bans IBM from IT Contracts

22nd October 2017, 23:37

MailWasher

22nd October 2017, 23:32

Help with Windows

22nd October 2017, 23:31

WindowsBBS

22nd October 2017, 23:25

Office Watch

7th October 2017, 17:03

Lightroom Killer Tips

11th September 2017, 09:47

Using an Evoluent VerticalMouse 4 on Linux

11th September 2017, 09:45

5 Best VPNs for RTÉ Player in 2017

8th July 2017, 12:13

Introduction to Outlook Data Files (.pst and .ost)

7th March 2017, 22:08

Review: Evoluent Vertical Mouse 4 (and how to make it work in Ubuntu)

25th February 2017, 11:14

The Internet of Things' Dangerous Future: Bruce Schneier

5th February 2017, 10:35

HEX to RGB Converter

3rd December 2016, 00:45

Javawa GPS-Tools

15th June 2016, 23:55

Why No Padlock?

19th May 2016, 12:14

Split a String in Excel

8th February 2016, 12:10

Add business days to date in Excel

5th December 2015, 11:15

List or Check Installed Linux Kernels

3rd December 2015, 14:07

Hackintosh

2nd October 2015, 21:01

Have I been pwned?

28th September 2015, 22:02

Cheatsheet: Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts

7th August 2015, 11:28

Windows 10 Installation ISO Disk Images

27th July 2015, 16:14

Pydio – An Open Source Alternative To Dropbox

24th July 2015, 11:18

Change MS Word's default paste setting to plain text

4th May 2015, 20:00

ColorPicker.com

4th May 2015, 11:07

boot-repair-disk

16th April 2015, 10:44

yEd

20th June 2007, 20:14

This is a useful PDF that I found somewhere: Vi Reference Card. Being a Vi newbie, I find that things like this do help me find my way about.

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