Everyone working in technology loves gear. Sometimes I feel the need to tell you about the gear that I’m using.
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Gear
Marmalade
Marmalade is a fruit preserve made from the juice and peel of citrus fruits boiled with sugar and water. Despite originating in Portugal, and most commonly made from Spanish Seville oranges, marmalade is now seen as a peculiarly British obsession. And in Britain, January is the month to make marmalade.
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Gear
AlphaESS Smile 5 Home Battery Storage System
I’ve wanted to get a home battery storage system for a while. We had solar panels installed back in 2009. On a sunny day I could see that we were generating much more electricity than we needed. The excess power is exported to the grid for a laughably low rate. Then when the sun goes down I can buy the power back from the grid at an extortionately high rate.
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Gear
My Desk Setup
I know what you’re thinking. How do I manage to put out high quality content, week after week, without fail? What kind of desk setup can make me this productive? Well, today you get to find out.
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Gear
Vodafone Openreach Full Fibre Broadband Install
There comes a time in everyone’s life when they start to wonder whether they should change their Internet Service Provider. I was with my previous provider for four years. The monthly price steadily rose, the supplied router was lagging behind in terms of features and the speeds from my ADSL line were adequate at best. On a good day I was getting 10 Mbps down, 0.5 Mps up and 33 ms latency.
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Mac
Gear
Autodesk
Making sense of British keyboard layouts on the Mac
So, I have a MacBook. Never owned a Mac before. There are two reasons why I now have one. The reason I like to give is that it will make development for iOS and the cloud easier than a Windows machine. The real reason is that I had a lot of Autodesk applause points to spend before I retired.