Category: Computers
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A few months back, I won a Nintendo Switch in a contest at work. I haven’t owned a video game console in a long time, so it’s been fun messing around with it. I signed up for a yearlong Switch Online membership so I could play some of the NES games from my childhood, but…
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Photo by Iñigo De la Maza on Unsplash A few months back, I read an article about how to be healthier that suggested you should eat 30 different plants (fruits and veg) a week. It’s not just about the vitamins you get from the food itself, but also about encouraging a healthy gut biome. “Holy…
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Rodd and I have both had the same Australian mobile/cell phone numbers for more than twenty years, and we didn’t want to lose them when we moved to Germany. After investigating a few different options, Rodd set us up on a Hosted PBX plan with Aussie company MBit. We both ported our mobile numbers to…
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My home office in Sydney is still empty, but I’ve set up a workspace at the dining room table in the meantime. One of the Christmas presents I bought myself is a mechanical-switch keyboard. I’ve been wanting one for ages, and then I read this CNN Underscored rating guide that covered a lot of the…
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I’m still enjoying Mastodon and staying the hell away from Twitter, and it seems like more and more folks are making the switch. If you use AWS and want to follow more folks in the developer community, my colleague Gunnar has curated several lists of employees, Developer Advocates, AWS Heroes, AWS Community Builders, and User…
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My buddy Phil Nash wrote a useful tutorial on how to alias your Mastodon username to your own domain with Jekyll. Bookmarking in case I want to go down a similar route when I revamp this blog next year. Also a reminder that you can follow me on Mastodon at @web_goddess@aus.social. And if you’re not…
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As always, I like to use the Oscar Contest as a way to try to learn something new. This year I decided to build it using AWS Amplify, a set of tools and services that can be used to quickly build and host mobile and web apps across a range of frameworks. I’ve somehow managed…
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David tweeted to me the other day to point out a problem with my automated Flipboard posting. @web_goddess I reckon your Flipboard script might need some more work. Keep seeing the Personal Branding link. — dead gar (@gilmae) July 23, 2014 To be honest, I’d spotted that one myself previously but chose to ignore it simply…