I’ve recently started learning Angular 5. As part of putting together an application as practice, I found myself needing to write a brief help page to describe to users how to use the application and what the various buttons mean. I could’ve done this in pure-HTML but I find Markdown... [Read More]

I use Windows 10 for my main PC and the lock screen images from Windows Spotlight are often beautiful so I wanted to look into how to use those pictures as desktop backgrounds. I found an existing HowToGeek article for this, but it gave a manual solution so today we’re... [Read More]

In this post we’re going to look at a fairly simple collection of things to create a log collection system in Microsoft Azure. The motivation behind this is to avoid building anything from scratch and use existing software and Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) services as far as possible... [Read More]

I’m using Bash for Windows 10, just to make life difficult. The main instructions from the Jekyll site, which can be found on the main Jekyll site here, are already based around using Bash for Windows, but beautiful-jekyll needed a bit of coercion to get going. Prior to installing Jekyll... [Read More]

This is a re-post of something I published previously on Medium.com on 12 July 2017 I’m a customer of Monzo’s banking service and I’m a big fan of the fact that they’ve published an API for their services. Whilst the API isn’t really their focus right now as they roll... [Read More]