An interactive web demo that creates simple but attractive wallpapers for Debian Linux.
I've been running Debian on my servers for years. It's dependable. I guess my server set-up is pretty common, consisting of Apache, PHP and MariaDB, but I figure it is still worth sharing details of how I provision my servers.
Creating a good Debian desktop experience is not too difficult, thanks to the excellent work of the Debian developers, but I thought it might be interesting to share how I set-up my Debian systems.
A post describing my first experience of upgrading a Fedora installation. TLDR: The upgrade went smoothly and Fedora continues to impress me.
Details about how I've manage my todo list, past and present. Starting out with a single text file, before developing my own basic todo list application.
I recently added a dark mode to my website. This post details how I achieved this by copying the existing light scheme's CSS and inverting the colour values.
I thought it would be trivial to add a custom search engine to Firefox. To be fair, it is fairly trivial, but not quite as easy as navigating to the correct Firefox settings page and adding a new entry. Instead, I found the process to be somewhat hidden and less obvious.
A blog post detailing an issue where a Puppeteer screenshot script, triggered through a PHP application using CodeIgniter, stopped working due to Chromium not starting under the Apache www-data user on Debian.
I've been reading a lot of good things about the Vivaldi web browser of late, so I thought I would give it a try. These are my notes on what I did to personalise Vivaldi.
If anyone is in any doubt as to whether you need to compile any software from source in order to use desktop Linux, you really don't.
A post where I try to clarify my current stance on LLM/AI. I share my concerns about data privacy, energy usage and Big Tech influence.
Recently, I've been using Startpage as my default search engine. I've known about the service for a while, but never really paid it any attention until now. Anyhow, I like it a lot and it reminds of how Google Search used to work, before all the AI stuff. The privacy features are a bonus.
So, Back To The Future Musical was epic. Back on the CHOO CHOO train and heading back home.
I’m on a CHOO CHOO train heading to London to see Back To The Future Musical.
Reading lots of chatter about how Bluesky is gaining in popularity. I think it's great that people are leaving X. I'm not bothered if people leave X for Bluesky or Mastodon, I would just like to see X gone. That said, I think Mastodon would be the sensible choice.
Thoroughly enjoyed watching RED ONE at the cinema this afternoon. Struggling to understand why it's only got a score of 35% on Rotten Tomatoes. To be fair, it's not a movie that you have to think about too much, it's just good entertainment with a bit of fantasy.
Taking a look at the current state of Debian testing. I've installed it on my old MacBook Pro and it's working nicely. It looks like Debian Trixie is going to be a really nice release.
I've been seeing this a lot tonight. There are 2 people using the Internet in our house and only 1 of them is browsing repos on GitHub.
Playing around with my old ThinkPad X220 tonight. This thing is over 10 years old and runs Debian 12 (GNOME) just fine. Also, I forgot just how good the keyboard is on this thing, it's amazing!
Wishing my friends in the USA good luck! I hope you have a peaceful election.
Plain text is a great format for sending emails that you want to work well with both light and dark modes. Actually, plain text is a great format for sending emails, period.
The Tragedy of Running an Old Node Project - Abdisalan Mohamud 
New CSS that can actually be used in 2024 | Thomasorus The amount of CSS novelty in the last two to four years has been staggering. Multiple innovations have been released and are now supported in all modern browsers, and some of them fundamentally change how to make websites.
TwiN/gatus: ⛑ Automated developer-oriented status page Gatus is a developer-oriented health dashboard that gives you the ability to monitor your services using HTTP, ICMP, TCP, and even DNS queries as well as evaluate the result of said queries by using a list of conditions on values like the status code, the response time, the certificate expiration, the body and many others.
Adactio: Journal—The meaning of “AI” For years, the term “AI” has been used in science-fiction. HAL 9000. Skynet. Examples of artificial general intelligence.
Now the term “AI” is also used to describe large language models. But there is no connection between this use of the term “AI” and the science fictional usage.
What are the best private browsers in 2024? Open-source tests of web browser privacy.
Blog Posts vs. Social Posts - Jim Nielsen’s Blog Generally speaking, the attention you get with a good post on social media is like a firework: it can light up fast and burn bright, but just as fast it disappears.
On the other hand, the attention you get from a good blog posts can be like a forest fire: it starts small but when it catches fire it rages for some time, burning longer and more intense than any firework.
realmazharhussain/nautilus-code Extension for Nautilus (GNOME Files) which adds right-click menu items to open current folder in code editors e.g. VSCode, GNOME Builder.
200 Web-Based, Must-Try Web Design and Development Tools · Jens Oliver Meiert 
My PHP development Workstation - Remi's RPM repository - Blog Tips on how to configure multiple PHP versions on Fedora Linux
Remi's RPM repository - Configuration wizard Configuration wizard for installing different PHP versions on Fedora Linux.
I like tag all content on my site. See below for my ever-growing list of tags.
My name is Philip Newborough and I’m a full stack web developer living and working in Lincoln, England. This website (philipnewborough.co.uk) serves as my personal homepage. When I’m not working with tech, I love to ride bicycles with my wife and friends.