michaelbrooks

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   by michaelbrooks 6y ago

   Ghost has been a superb platform for my dev blog, and I'm hoping to migrate my personal blog over to it at some point in the future (it's currently using Gridsome). https://ghost.org/
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   by michaelbrooks 6y ago

   I was a huge Apple skeptic before the iPhone 11, and decided to give the Pro a go. Much like yourself, I now use it for most of my productivity tasks. All of my blog posts are now mostly written on the iPad, and I love the pencil and magic
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   iPad 12.9“ 2020 review (A PC user’s perspective)(mbrooksuk.medium.com)

   12 points by michaelbrooks 6y ago|4 comments
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   by michaelbrooks 6y ago

   Like I've said previously, my wife is a pet sitter and has been bitten. It's good to know where she is so if the situation ever happens again, I can find her. The geolocation thing for me was purely so I could get dinner ready for
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   by michaelbrooks 6y ago

   I don't have kids and like to eat at the same time as my wife as I'm sure many other couples do, this is why we like to have it ready for when they arrive.
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   by michaelbrooks 6y ago

   My wife is a pet sitter and has been bitten by a dog. She called me, but couldn't explain or tell me her location and me being terrible with directions drove around aimlessly and couldn't find her. After this, she decided it was b
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   by michaelbrooks 6y ago

   Unfortunately, my wife is using an Android phone so this wouldn't work for us.
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   by michaelbrooks 6y ago

   My wife is a pet sitter and pet sitting can actually be quite dangerous. She once got bit by a dog and called me to come and help. She was in too much shock to be able to explain where she was, and I'm absolutely terrible with directio
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   by michaelbrooks 6y ago

   I've slowly made the switch, and I quite like being able to see my wife on both the desktop and app versions of Google Maps. I do wish it had messaging features, and geofencing alerts would be a huge bonus so I can be alerted when she
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    by michaelbrooks 6y ago

    I just signed up and received an email confirmation, but the link was white so I couldn't see it. I had to move my cursor where I thought it was until my cursor changed. I'm using Outlook on Windows 10 if that helps.
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    by michaelbrooks 6y ago

    I know exactly what you mean, but if you say "cancel", it will shut it off faster. It is still a big annoyance which I hope gets fixed at some point in the future.
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    Learn how to build a multitenanted Laravel applcation(multitenancy.dev)

    2 points by michaelbrooks 6y ago|0 comments
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    by michaelbrooks 6y ago

    I thought it was uBlock, and disabled it to see what would happen. Once I refreshed the page, it displayed which led me to believe something weird was going. I tried again with uBlock enabled and refreshed the page which worked. So the bott
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    Comment Bots Are Invading YouTube (Spam Bots)(youtube.com)

    1 points by michaelbrooks 6y ago|0 comments
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    by michaelbrooks 6y ago

    I think Brave and Coil will hopefully lead the way to decentralised micropayments. They just need to become more popular to the every day reader.
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    by michaelbrooks 6y ago

    I personally use Feedly as my RSS reader and I followed my blog to see how many followers I get. Currently, I have 367 Feedly subscribers and it still continues to grow. Also, looking at my analytics, I can see people coming in from Feedly,
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    Creator Interview with David Thorpe(michaelbrooks.substack.com)

    1 points by michaelbrooks 6y ago|0 comments
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    by michaelbrooks 6y ago

    97 on mobile and 99 on desktop. [0] For a site that never had pagespeed as a tool, that is super impressive and just goes to show how bloated today's websites really are. [0] https://developers.google.com/speed/pag
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    by michaelbrooks 6y ago

    If you want your own custom domain with membership features, then Ghost is probably your best bet. It has built-in member features, open-source and can also be hosted on their Pro platform. They also don't take a cut from your membersh
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    How to Make and Sell an eBook(twitter.com)

    2 points by michaelbrooks 6y ago|0 comments
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    Website migrated from VuePress to Gridsome posting from Forestry(michaelbrooks.co.uk)

    3 points by michaelbrooks 6y ago|0 comments
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    by michaelbrooks 6y ago

    Matomo is a great alternative, but you either have to pay to host it on their servers, or host in on your own server. You could setup a $5 droplet on Digital Ocean and host it easily enough.
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    by michaelbrooks 6y ago

    I managed to host it fairly easily using Digital Ocean on a $5 droplet.
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    by michaelbrooks 6y ago

    This is really cool to see and I love how webrings are making a comeback. Here's one from Jack McDade filled with weird people/things. https://weirdwidewebring.net/
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    Automatically post new blog posts to your Facebook and Twitter pages from RSS(blog.michaelbrooks.dev)

    1 points by michaelbrooks 6y ago|0 comments
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    What Is Code? (2015)(bloomberg.com)

    1 points by michaelbrooks 6y ago|0 comments
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    by michaelbrooks 6y ago

    I mostly use Siri to play Spotify, but most of the time she won't listen to me through my car's microphone. If she isn't working then I need to pull my phone out of my pocket and place it somewhere the phone can clearly hear
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    by michaelbrooks 6y ago

    Another place to check out is https://weirdwidewebring.net/ where you can submit your blogs via a GitHub PR. It was created by Jack McDade whose an all-round great guy.
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    Running Laravel Dusk Tests with Docker Using DDEV(blog.michaelbrooks.dev)

    4 points by michaelbrooks 6y ago|0 comments
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    Docker can now be used on Windows 10 Home edition through WSL2(reddit.com)

    3 points by michaelbrooks 6y ago|0 comments