New Laptop

Recently ordered a new Lenovo IdeaPad 3i laptop. Twice as much disk space as my old laptop. 50% more memory. 4 cm bigger screen. WiFi 6. Fuller keyboard. Paid extra for a backlit keyboard as I loved that in my old laptop. Uses the same charger as my old one, which I already had two … Continued

Some software is too reliable

So my email client has been giving me warnings for a few weeks about my mail server’s certificate having expired. I trust the server, so I assumed something had gone wrong with certbot and the renewal process hadn’t worked. I put fixing it on my todo list. Today I finally got a chance to look … Continued

Bootstrap 5 Released

Seems I’m late to the party and it was released about two weeks ago. I’ve already been using the betas for a while though. Switching from using l/r (left/right) to s/e (start/end) for all the margin and padding utilities was a somewhat painful change. Bootstrap 4 → 5 Compatibility Shim I created this SCSS file … Continued

COVID-19 Vaccination, First Dose

So I had the first dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination on Tuesday. No noticeable side-effects apart from a slight bruise-like pain at the injection site. I’ve had a cold (mild tonsillitis?) since Monday though which could have masked other side-effects.

Mood Lighting

The lighting in my bedroom uses Philips Hue bulbs — specifically, the coloured ones. Last night, I decided it would be nice to set the three lights in my bedroom to cycle slowly through a set of warm colours using…

Happy New Year

Happy New Year! Now it’s 2021, and all our .EU domain names can stop working. The only one I own is tmpdir.eu and I only use it as a placeholder domain name when I’m working on a new website. There’s a couple of in-progress websites and a staging site or two that will be affected … Continued