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Configuring A Cheapo USB Wifi Dongle for a Raspberry Pi B Rev 2

Configuring A Cheapo USB Wifi Dongle for a Raspberry Pi B Rev 2

June 17, 2020 · by Sam Michel · in Geekery

Covid lockdown has meant clearing out drawers and finding an old Raspberry Pi and having a bit of a tinker. After dusting off some fairly ancient command line skills, I ran into, what seems to be a common problem. How… [read more]

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How to Fix Twitter Cards Not Showing Images on WordPress

September 14, 2017 · by Sam Michel · in Geekery

<tl:dr> Using SSL for your website on WordPress is great, but has a downside if you’re using Twitter cards to make your social stuff look purdy, images don’t show. Hooking in to a filter on the hugely popular WordPress SEO… [read more]

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How to Fix Facebook Opengraph Images on Secure Sites with WordPress

June 27, 2017 · by Sam Michel · in Geekery

<tl;dr> Using Opengraph tags to specify which images and descriptions Facebook should use when a link is being shared often breaks for secure sites using https. They key? Using og:image:secure_url to specify the link. Here’s a quick fix using Yoast’s… [read more]

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Space Mission UK: A Week of Science, Innovation and Inspiration in California. And an Election, too.

November 25, 2016 · by Sam Michel · in Geekery, Marketing

Witnessing the US election up close was surreal. I was lucky enough to spend that week travelling the length of California with ten of the UK’s top “New Space” companies for the third Space Mission UK trip. As we boarded… [read more]

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Do You Remember the First Time You Saw the Web?

January 7, 2016 · by Sam Michel · in Geekery

<tl;dr> Where were you the first time? What did you think? Did you have an inkling of what would happen? I was cleaning out the loft recently and came across this CD promising 200 hours of rfree Internet. It got me… [read more]

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Keyboard Shortcuts for Mute: Skype & Google Hangouts

September 21, 2015 · by Sam Michel · in Geekery, Social

Do you spend an inordinate amount of time on conference calls? From noisy offices, coffee shops or coworking spaces? Are the children making a racket in the background whilst you’re sharing your words of wisdom? <tl;dr> Here’s the keyboard shortcuts… [read more]

How to enable Gmail's 'Send mail as'

How to enable Gmail’s ‘Send mail as’

March 18, 2015 · by Sam Michel · in Geekery

Ah, the price of progress. Sparkly new features appear and sometimes really useful ones disappear. One of Gmail’s lovely features is the ability to handle several email accounts, fetching email and making it easy to send email on behalf of… [read more]

Precision Engineering by Jacob Ehnmark

Installing Mongo and Mongo-PHP on Mac OSX Mavericks with MAMP

June 6, 2014 · by Sam Michel · in Geekery

<tl;dr> A brief and thoroughly geeky blog post. If you’re not tinkering with Mongo on a Mac, best click away now </tl;dr> Are you wanting to tinker with the fancy schmancy NoSQL database Mongo and you’re running MAMP on your… [read more]

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Migrating from Drupal 6 to WordPress: Part 2 – Content, Tags, Links and Images

January 13, 2014 · by Sam Michel · in Geekery

This is second in a series of posts about migrating from Drupal 6 to Wordpress. The first post tackled installing Wordpress and some basic security options. This time it’s a gnarly bunch of SQL for converting content out of Drupal 6 into Wordpress version 3.7. It should also work with the latest version (at time of writing Wordpress 3.8 Parker).

Spam on my Twitter Account

My Twitter Got Hacked, What Next? The Obvious, Less Obvious & Forensic

December 12, 2013 · by Sam Michel · in Cantankerism, Geekery

And there goes the morning. If I could describe a deeply annoying start to the day, it would be thus: Wake up to discover that you’re offering your Twitter followers a sweet deal on Jordan’s (whatever the hell they/s/he is/are). Then follows a flood of tweets, direct messages, emails, text messages and the other half shouting across the room, “your Twitter account has been hacked”.

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