Are you getting unexplained ‘Clickable elements too close together’ or similar in Google’s Search Console? Me too… I’ve recently been tackling SEO for a low-cost online HR Software system (JuiceHR.com) I have been working on, and part of that process has been trying to generate genuinely useful content for visitors. …

If you find yourself regularly needing to find or report on the largest tables in your MySQL database, the following SQL statement should do the trick: SELECT table_schema as database_name, table_name, table_rows as `Row Count`…

And no, it’s not due to your Wi-Fi speed. As an ex-pat from England currently living in the USA, I spend a lot of time streaming UK radio stations. The BBC has some of the finest radio programming on the planet, from light entertainment to current affairs, through comedy and…

Finding a working VM alternative when VirtualBox no longer works — If you’ve landed on this article, you may have recently upgraded to a shiny new Macbook Pro or similar running the new M1 processor. What nobody probably told you before you pressed the ‘Buy now’ button was that all your existing x86–64 machine you’d lovingly built using Vagrant and Virtualbox…

With so many kids being home-schooled right now, there is an increasing demand from parents to filter inappropriate web content coming into the home. Blocking adult content, such as extreme violence and pornography, is known as web filtering, and this article should give you some quick wins at keeping your…

On a recent project with Amazon’s implementation of ActiveMQ (AWS Amazon MQ), we were struggling with what appeared to be the repeated failure of message re-delivery. Our use case seemed fairly straight forward: we had a client application that was periodically crashing due to an issue processing a queue payload…

An practical framework for discussion The following article is a brain dump of an idea that formed early one morning around universal messaging. It’s far from complete, but illustrates a possible approach to solving a wider problem of messaging interoperability without a single point of failure or control. Overview The following…

As a British citizen who moved to the US three years ago, I care deeply about the future of the National Health Service back in the UK. Why? Quite simply because I’ve seen first hand how the American health care system operates, and I wouldn’t wish that on my family…

Building a web filtering WiFi Access Point for free using a Raspberry Pi Background I recently attended Lascon, a security conference held annually in Austin, Texas each year. …