Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!
I’ve added a Telegram Channel today for those who use Telegram Channel. I’m still deciding whether to post headlines only or full posts as I don’t want it too cluttered. But anyone can view it […]
A new page was started at https://gadgeteer.co.za/hamradio about my new hobby from 2019. I’ve added a page at https://gadgeteer.co.za/winlink about Winlink for sending e-mails over radio without the Internet.
I have managed to transfer and restore the original URL https://gadgeteer.co.za across to the new site so all old links should connect fine now. I’m still checking for any minor bugs or issues but everything seems to […]
This is the first time I have ever lost site data in over 10 years. Even when I migrated from WordPress to Drupal I managed to bring all my pages and posts over. The outage […]
Last night was not a good night… just after I had finished putting the last touches to adding Disqus comments (I’m still trying to remember how I restricted them to only certain pages) I made […]
For a number of years, I have been publishing all my posts to my own hosted blog (first WordPress and then I migrated it all to Drupal) as insurance against social networks disappearing (which they […]
Unfortunately an .htaccess file update yesterday evening broke the SSL loading for my address at https://gadgeteer. Whilst fixing this and checking the SSL I noticed three pages (including Home, Open Source Software, and Reading) that […]
On the My Blog page I have added an option to subscribe to a daily e-mail with excerpts of my blog posts for the prior 24 hours. This may be preferable to some followers who don’t want […]
With Opcache enabled on PHP 7.2 the site should now navigate much faster.
I have created a dedicated room on Riot.im at https://chat.librenet.co.za/#/room/#gadgeteerza:librenet.co.za where my blog posts will also be appearing, and anyone can comment or post there. Riot.im is an opensource alternative to Slack, and can also be used for […]