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What’s on my desk? 2025 edition!
For a number of years now, I’ve shared my desk set-up to the world. As I work from home, my office is both practical but cosy and personal. In an office, you may be limited to personal possessions (in fact, at my previous employer, they made you clear your desk at the end of each…
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Review: ESR MagSafe Power Bank
We want slim phone but, equally, we want battery life. Something has to give. And usually it’s the battery. As a result, battery packs have been pretty ubiquitous. A few years ago, though, they were always tethered by a wire, and where to put the bulk battery pack whilst you were using it was always…
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Disable back & forward gestures in Mac browsers
In MacOS you can swipe left or right to cause a browser’s web page to move forward and back (also known as “overscrolling”). It can be a useful trick, but can also prove to be annoying. I’m in the latter camp. It can be turned off, but only from the command line.
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Plugin updates: How important is your website to you?
Back in March of last year, I mentioned some issues I’d have with a plugin after passing it over for adoption. Well, the Plugin Review team handed it back to me, at my request but it came with some caveats which caused some headaches for some users… but not as big a headache as it…
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The perils of agnostic support
Whether you work in the customer support industry or not, we’re aware of the general mechanisms of it, whether having to use one to sort out a parcel delivery or arrange for a product to be fixed. But, behind the scenes, things can work quite differently. And one of those differences is whether they use…