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Dutifully Doing some Docker Duties

So I have decided that the machine currently running my home dockers (Forgejo, Grav (Talk Tech Blog) & Jellyfin) was no longer as powerful as I needed. Truthfully the only think I needed to really move was Jellyfin. But I do not want to have so many machines turn...

Getting Grav Graphically Grounded

Now I have moved full time to the Grav platform, I decided to spend the day making it work for me. So I have spent the day tweaking the theme, working on the SEO side of it (not that I care about being on Google etc), but when you share the links on social media -...

Ditching Windows

After spending all of my adult life enjoying Microsoft Windows and having a passion for the world of Linux, i've decide to uninstall Windows 11 and migrate fully to Manjaro Linux. There are many reasons why I have decided to do this now, some I have bullet pointed below:

• Mor...

Since my last post about my now Playing Display code for the Pimoroni Presto, I've made some improvements to the code.

Whats changed

• Pressing the buttons is now more responsive
• Skip Button now skips
• Pressing the screen when you have paused the media with resume playing
• Album/Now Playing...

How I'm using the Presto screen for my media consumption

I am a Customer support manager who works from home. This means lots of reading and writing reports and emails whilst sat at home. So - to stem the silence I do what most people do and play music during the day. I tend to listen to random pl...

Since I do not spend as much time on Raspberry Pi projects anymore, I will be going back to blogging about general tech stuff again. So this may include other Single Board Computers, Micro Controllers and web technology.

I will be posting my thoughts on moving away from sites like Twitter, Faceb...

Welcome to Grav. I've decided to drop WordPress as my main tool for this site due to the all the controversial things going on with their parent company. So, from today you will come here if you go to my site - direct post links will still go back to my old WordPress site for now.

So you can sti...

Pimoroni’s Inky Impression is a 5.7-inch 7 colour e-ink screen. As it is an e-ink screen, it is very low power. It is also capable of maintaining an image without power. It connects to any 40-pin Raspberry Pi microcomputer. I have used it with a Pi Zero, Pi 3A, Pi 3B + and a Pi 4.

You can use di...