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  • Essay 3 min read

    Exporting Highlights From A Kobo E-Reader

    After loosing my Kindle Paperwhite in London a couple of weeks ago I have been a bit lost. I did order another one, but when posts started popping up about a colour Kobo Libra I decided to return it and try something …

  • Essay 2 min read

    New Plugin: Search Partial

    In my work to recreate my 11ty blog on micro.blog I wanted a better search experience for readers, and also myself when searching for posts to link to. Manton did a great job with his search page plugin, so I adapted …

  • Essay 2 min read

    How I Use The New Apple Journal App

    Finally launching with iOS 17.2 Apple’s new journal app immediately received criticism. Whilst some of it was valid, most of this focused on features Apple did not promise. It delivered a very barebones app that gives me …

  • Essay 4 min read

    How I Use OMG.lol Statuses

    The fun little service omg.lol is the new hotness on micro.blog and seems to be seeping out into the wider internet. Not only is it ridiculously cheap for what you get, the developer Adam seems to be making constant …

  • Essay 2 min read

    How To Sign Shortcuts Files

    I woke to an email about an ancient Shortcuts repo I had stored old backup files in. They were available as a place to save Shortcut files I had written about because the iCloud link sharing can be a bit flaky. They were …

  • Essay 3 min read

    How To Use Tailwind With Your Ghost Blog

    Never one to be left behind, I am continually looking for a way to speed up my theme development. Call it desire to be cutting edge, or near of missing out, whatever it is I love to play around with it. One thing that …

  • Essay 2 min read

    How To Edit Your Ghost Theme Using Github

    Since first trying Ghost, one of the best things about editing my theme is the ability to host on Github. Through a simple integration I can easily edit my theme to make changes from almost anywhere. If you want to do …

  • Essay 2 min read

    How To Publish To Micro.blog With iOS Shortcuts

    My blog is currently hosted on the excellent micro.blog service. I could go on about why I chose this place to host, but my thoughts are summed up on my post here. It suits me perfectly because I publish everything to …

  • Essay 2 min read

    How To Do An EE Digital eSim Swop

    Despite it being a standard feature in many Android phones it took Apple until the iPhone XS to implement a dual sim of sorts. Even then you need to have one as an eSim and that limits the networks that can support it. …

  • Essay 2 min read

    How To Start Hacking Roam Research

    As with everything I get invested in I like to go in deep and see what it can really do. One of the easiest ways to start to mould Roam Research to your will and make it unique for your use case is to add in CSS or JS. …