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Migrating Jekyll from GitHub Pages to GitLab Pages

Migrate Jekyll to GitLab

I moved this site from GitHub Pages to GitLab Pages. As both provide support for Jekyll one would imagine the migration would be simple. It isn’t.

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GitHub + Microsoft = Not a Bright Future for OSS

GitHub + Microsoft

Really concerned to read this morning that GitHub is going to be acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion. Yes, that is billions!

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Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Stay Hungry & Foolish

Steve Jobs’ Stanford University Commencement address remains one of the most inspirational addresses to date.

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How to find your MAC Address

Find a MAC Address

The following HOWTO will show you how to find a device’s MAC Address on either Android, iPhone, iPad, Windows or macOS.

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The Day My Father Died

The Day My Father Died

At around midnight on 18 May 2010 my father passed away after a long battle with Cancer.

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Diceware Password Generator

Password Generator

A piece of open-source software I wrote in Python that uses a world list and dice to output an easy to remember, yet highly secure password based on a sequence of words.

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humans.txt

Humans.txt

This will show you how to create a humans.txt file with a Last Updated timestamp in Jekyll.

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CakePHP on XAMPP

CakePHP on XAMPP

The following Howto will install CakePHP and get you up and running using XAMPP on Mac OS X 10.7.5+.

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Complete Meta-tag List

Meta Tags List

Ever wondered how many HTML meta tags there are? This is the most concise list of meta tags, ready and at your disposal.

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