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Replacing the hard drive in the PlayStation 4 Slim
The PS4 Slim comes with a 500GB or 1TB hard drive. On paper that sounds quite generous but with individual games often taking up 10% or more of this a time, it doesn’t take the avid gamer long to fill this. Ideally, the best time to replace the drive is before you start using it…
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What’s it like working for Automattic?
I’m only a matter of weeks into my new role, working for Automattic, and I’m regularly asked how it’s going and what it’s like to work for them, particularly the change in culture. Having come from a corporate role, working for the same company for 27 years, it’s a huge change. But, I have to…
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The Amazon S3 Outage and the basic mistake that they made
Amazon Web Services (known as AWS) provides a number of web-based products but their most popular is probably S3 (Simple Storage Service). It provides ‘cloud’ storage and is used by numerous sites and businesses throughout the world. Last night it stopped working and that had an impact on many people as a result – probably,…
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How NOT to push out code updates for a WordPress plugin
“WordPress plugin developer admits he pushes out code changes without incrementing the version number. Discuss”. This is how this started off.
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Why you should avoid any website that emails you your password
The next time you sign up for a website or you click on the ‘Forgotten password’ link and they email you your password…. run! Delete your account and don’t use them. Let me explain why.