E-Signature API Service Providers
It’s been a while since I’ve posted here, to put it mildly. Writing a blog seems ever so nostalgic these days, but still, here we are. I’ve been doing some research for a work project… [read more]
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Geekery
Configuring A Cheapo USB Wifi Dongle for a Raspberry Pi B Rev 2
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… [read more]
How to Fix Twitter Cards Not Showing Images on WordPress
<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… [read more]
How to Fix Facebook Opengraph Images on Secure Sites with WordPress
<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… [read more]
Space Mission UK: A Week of Science, Innovation and Inspiration in California. And an Election, too.
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.… [read more]
Do You Remember the First Time You Saw the Web?
<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… [read more]
Keyboard Shortcuts for Mute: Skype & Google Hangouts
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;… [read more]
How to enable Gmail’s ‘Send mail as’
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… [read more]
Installing Mongo and Mongo-PHP on Mac OSX Mavericks with MAMP
<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… [read more]
Migrating from Drupal 6 to WordPress: Part 2 – Content, Tags, Links and Images
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… [read more]
My Twitter Got Hacked, What Next? The Obvious, Less Obvious & Forensic
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… [read more]
Migrating from Drupal 6 to WordPress: Part 1 – Installation & Security
After six years, I finally bit the bullet and decided to make the jump from Drupal to WordPress. The reasons are numerous and I’m planning another blog post to chisel through that particular rock and hard place.… [read more]