Technology, church music, bicycles, and life in Ireland
Since the usage of Mastodon exploded last November a number of online publishing tools such as Tumbler and Medium have started supporting the ActivityPub protocol that underpins Mastodon. What I didn’t realise however is that there’s a WordPress plugin called ActivityPub that enables folk to publish their blog posts using the protocol. It means that […]
If you have one New Year’s resolution this year, let it be to get on top of your online security. We all have so much information about us stored online these days – whether it’s financial information, private messages, or family photos stored in online albums. And we all have a part to play to […]
With all problems related with Twitter at the moment , I spent the last couple of weeks getting into posting on Mastodon instead. I briefly played around with running my own Mastodon instance using a virtual machine, but I found it a little lonely out on my own. It was difficult to discover new people […]
It’s a pretty bold claim from the online retailer Boohoo. If you order something on their website before midnight, then you will receive it in Dublin the next day! Here’s the offer on their website: I order a lot of stuff from the UK, and most of the time it takes a couple of days […]
We’ve all been told that we should use websites that encrypt their traffic. We should look for the https:// at the start of the address to make sure the site is secure and give us peace of mind. But what if your company was still monitoring your web use, even though it was secure? If […]
I got a notification today that SiteGround, the web hosting company that I use to host all my sites, are having a Black Friday sale with discounts of up to 75% off their hosting plans. The discounts apply to their shared hosting plans, and are available from Friday 23rd to Monday 26th November 2018 inclusive, […]
