After dabbling with linux on and off for 20 years, with Raspberry Pi, Servers and occasionally on the desktop, I finally decided to bite the bullet and replace Windows 10 on my main laptop (Dell Inspiron 7348 2015) with Ubuntu… Continue Reading →
Services (or Daemons or Agents) are normal programs that run in the background and are managed by the OS. I needed to make a python script run under Mac OS using launchd, which is a bit more involved than a… Continue Reading →
Github Actions is a CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment) service built into Github. It makes code deployment as easy as pushing to a github repo. I’ve previously used Zappa which also has a fast way to deploy (and could… Continue Reading →
One of the features of spreadsheets I’ve always found useful is conditional formatting. You can easily highlight if a value is above or below a certain amount, for example to highlight negative figures. This can can dramatically improve readability. I… Continue Reading →
A review of the best privacy focussed web analytics platforms available in 2023
I’m using Mailbluster for my email marketing / newsletter. It’s simpler and cheaper than Mailchimp, and a bit more user friendly than ‘Email Subscribers’ (for WordPress) that I’ve used in the past. It’s built on top of Amazons Simple Email… Continue Reading →
One of the best things about learning to code in Python is the ability to save yourself time by automating repetative tasks, or as Al Sweigart puts it, to “Automate The Boring Stuff”/. When I was faced with having to… Continue Reading →
AndyPi’s Countly WordPress plugin makes it a breeze to add analytics to your WordPress website in a GDPR compliant way with the Osano cookie consent popup, and includes a feedback widget. Get it here: https://countlywordpressplugin.andypi.co.uk/ If you want to take… Continue Reading →
Cloudflare Stream is a super-fast on-demand video streaming service that runs on Cloudflare’s content delivery network, and is a fantastic service for streaming video if you don’t want your videos cluttered by ads or competing videos from other platforms such… Continue Reading →
It’s been a while since I last uploaded a WordPress plugin, and with the release of my new Video Analytics for Cloudflare Stream I ended up making a right mess of repo – all my version control is done in… Continue Reading →
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