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  • Replacing the hard drive in the PlayStation 4 Pro

    Replacing the hard drive in the PlayStation 4 Pro

    The PS4 Pro comes with a 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 (i.e. when you first buy the PS4) as all games have to be downloaded and/or re-installed. But that’s the only hard bit of the whole process – Sony have made the procedure very, very simple.

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  • Replacing the hard drive in the PlayStation 4 Slim

    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 (i.e. when you first buy the PS4) as all games have to be downloaded and/or re-installed. But that’s the only hard bit of the whole process – Sony have made the procedure very, very simple.

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  • What’s it like working for Automattic?

    What’s it like working for Automattic?

    You’ll be surprised, shocked, delighted, thrilled and inspired by how WordPress.com gets work done. I was!Joe Belfiore, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft

    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 say, one I was happy to embrace.

    It has always occurred to me, working for a company over 150 years old and with a familiar, old-school office set-up, that there must be newer and better ways to work. Automattic is not just about working from home but in how it approaches the work/life balance but also the entire relationship it has with its employees and they with each other.

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  • The Amazon S3 Outage and the basic mistake that they made

    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, most noticeable for some, IFTTT was completely offline as a result.

    However, something else didn’t work.

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  • How NOT to push out code updates for a WordPress plugin

    How NOT to push out code updates for a WordPress plugin

    https://twitter.com/DavidArtiss/status/825320954221969413

    This is how this started off.

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