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Top level navigation menu. Hello! I'm Alex. I'm a software developer based in the UK. I love technology, programming, self-hosting and gaming.
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But At What Cost?
As a race, humans are really bad at doing cost benefit analysis. We might try and weigh up the pros and cons but we all have a tendency to exaggerate the pros if they are beneficial to us and downplay the cons that we can't directly see. This is also the
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Uniqueness is the key to standing out
The other day I saw this post about "Stolen Buttons". It is a browser extension that "steals" a button from every website that you visit. You can see the creators collection of "stolen" buttons here: Stolen Buttons Anatoly Zenkov If you scroll through the
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Reducing my screen time with another device...
In an attempt to reduce the amount of time I spend staring at my phone, I have bought myself another device. At least that is the lie I told myself for buying yet another gadget because it looked cool. After seeing Max Glenister and Neil Brown speak so hi
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I Tried Building a Real App With AI. It Took a Year.
My wife and I have been looking for an app to track things like habits, hobbies, and when we last did certain chores. To be honest there are probably hundreds of different habit trackers on the App Store. Next to todo list apps they are supposed to be the
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Opting for privacy in webmentions
Last week I went full speed into setting up webmentions on my site. My implementation works around using webmention.io in my site's head and Bridgy for sending me webmentions for comments, likes and reposts on my posts that I share. Ideally I would like t
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