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How to fix Apple Watch battery issues after WatchOS 10.1
When WatchOS 10.1 was released last week, I started having massive issues with the battery and charging of my Apple Watch Series 8. Bad enough that it made the watch next to unusable. However, the fix turned out to be something simple, despite even Apple Support missing it.
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My recent experience of submitting a WordPress plugin to the directory
It’s been around 3 years since I last submitted a plugin to the WordPress directory. A lot has changed since then and having just had a new one approved, I thought I’d compare the process. First of all, let’s talk about that previous plugin, back in 2020. It wasn’t particularly complex, but then neither was…
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How to delete gadgets from Inoreader
If you’re a user of the excellent Inoreader for all of your RSS feed needs, then you may make use of your dashboard, which shows a number of very useful ‘gadgets’. However, although it’s easy to say how to move and add them, what’s not so obvious is how to delete any that you no…
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Are transients now housekept correctly in WordPress?
I’m going to go against Betteridge’s Law of Headlines (sorry, Ian) because, I believe, the answer here is “yes”. 10 years ago, I was part of a conversation in Trac about WordPress’ housekeeping of transients. It was closed off with a half-hearted attempt to resolve the issue with the reasoning of… This leaves much to…
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Managing home workers? Here’s how to do it well…
For over three years I’ve been working for a fully remote company – that’s one with no offices – everyone works at home (or wherever else you can perch a laptop). Before that I spent almost 30 years in the most dyed-in-the-wool, traditional office environment that you can imagine. The contrast was extreme but it…