As 2025 begins, I figured it was time to give my personal website a much-needed refresh. A new year feels like the perfect excuse to make it more relevant to my work. When it comes to personal sites, I wanted something lightweight, easy to set up, and most importantly, zero...
After years of using Outlook in its various forms on Windows and macOS, I decided to move over to using eM Client this Black Friday (2024), when the commercial pro lifetime deal for this app was on offer. How I use Outlook I live by Rules in Outlook. I use...
I've had a few Nuki solutions down through the years, from the Nuki Smart Lock 2 with the Bridge, to the Smart Lock 4 and the Key Pad 2, but recently, I decided to get the new Nuki Smart Lock Ultra. In this review, I'll cover...
Recently, I had to set up a new Azure Key Vault for an internal project. This new key vault was shared with some team members but when it came to add a new key to the vault we were getting the following error message: I spotted on the main vault...
For the past 6yrs, I've used Orchard CMS to host my personal blog. It's been hosted on Cloudzy.com on a shared instance. Between the Windows Server 2016 hosting, my domain name, and the email hosting it was costing around €250/yr. I didn't...
Down through the years, I've written a few of these setup posts. I've bounced from PC to Mac, and back again, but my web dev has remained the same - ASP.NET, SQL Server and JavaScript. Every few weeks on the Reddit .NET groups, I would...
One feature that I was missing when I initially moved from Visual Studio over to JetBrains Rider was the ability for the current item that I was viewing to auto select in the Solution Explorer menu.
I recently decided to dip into the Smart Home world in a more serious way. I've had a few IKEA smart power adapters but I was keeping away from the more expensive larger items like security systems, video door bells and smart locks until I was able to do a bit more research on them.
There is currently a lot of confusion around getting the Sonos ARC setup with LG TV's. Most of this discussion is around the eArc connector support and whether your specific model of LG TV will output Dolby Atmos. For the purposes of this post I just want to...