Blog Entries
Sep 02nd 2021
LEMP Stack & Certbot
Last month i was helping out a friend with some server logs on a Hetzner Cloud Package and was quite impressed with the Hetzner server controls etc... then my buddy told me the price and i was blown away... for cheaper than i was paying he was getting more bang for his buck! so i made the decision t...
By Mike Jones
Site Dev
5 minutes
Aug 26th 2021
Pretty System Specs
One thing i spotted when i started using Tech Twitter was people would post screenshots of there system specifications in terminals with pretty logos etc and i wanted to know how it was all done!...... its actually SUPER simple.
By Mike Jones
Site Dev
1 minute
Jul 07th 2021
Is linux user friendly?
With the announcement of Windows 11 and its daft pre-requisites i finally decided to switch my main system to Linux without the dual boot and say goodbye to Windows for good. A few friends have said "Linux is complicated", "It's not user friendly", "You can't do anything normal with it!"... and aft...
By Mike Jones
Site Dev
5 minutes
Jun 08th 2021
Training & New Gym
I'm a Brazilian JiuJitsu Practitioner, its the one hobby I do outside my family. Four hours a week I got to my club Primal BJJ which is a padded room in Rhyl, North Wales to essentially learn how to strangle people in Pyjamas (its not quite like that but that description seems to fit.) . Every chan...
By Mike Jones
Site Dev
2 minutes
May 23rd 2021
Mac Dev Environment
Last month i went through the start to finish process of setting up Valet Linux on Ubuntu 20.04. Unfortunately the system i went through the tutorial with has died.... so i'm back to my iMac, i've bought some extra RAM (32gb) so at least its not falling over itself all the time.
By Mike Jones
Site Dev
8 minutes
May 11th 2021
Battle of the IDE's
so i think in the world of IDE's today there is two that are top of the piles (Free & Paid). You have PHP Storm and VScode, These two IDE's are incredible, the only difference is VScode is free and PHP Storm isn't (with some exceptions). I'm going to talk about the IDE's a little first and then go...
By Mike Jones
Site Dev
6 minutes