Upgrading from Fedora 40 to Fedora 41
A post describing my first experience of upgrading a Fedora installation. TLDR: The upgrade went smoothly and Fedora continues to impress me.
Philip Newborough - Web Developer and Linux Enthusiast
Pinned Demo: War - A Digital Poem
About 20 years ago I wrote a poem and scratched out a doodle to accompany it. I'm no poet and I'm almost entirely sure that it is the only poem I have ever written. That said, I'm actually quite proud of my effort and given what is currently happening in Ukraine and the Middle East, I thought I would share it in the form of an interactive digital poem.
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How I do todos
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.
Creating a Bootstrap dark CSS colour scheme by inverting the colour values of an existing light colour scheme
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.
How to add a custom search engine to Firefox
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.
Calling Puppeteer via PHP
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.
Vivaldi notes
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.
Desktop Linux and compiling from source
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.
My concerns with generative AI
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.
AI in Firefox
Some thoughts about Mozilla's decision to build AI features into the Firefox web browser.
Switching desktop Linux from Debian to Fedora
Last week I switched the operating system on my daily driver (Lenovo ThinkPad T14s) from Debian 12 to Fedora 40. In this post I write a little about why I switched and how the switch went.
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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.
Working on an old project that uses TinyMCE for writing product descriptions. Most of the descriptions consist of paragraphs and lists, so I'm thinking I'll drop TinyMCE in favour of using Markdown. Been testing league/html-to-markdown and it seems to be working fine for this use case.
Just discovered that Vivaldi provides custom icons for iOS. That's a really nice touch!
Passwords suck, but I built a password generator that'll create passwords like "7Salads&aQuailnamedSteve." and "84Butterbeans&anEelcalledRicky!" philipnewborough.co.uk/demos/passwo...
Fedora 41 upgrade 😚👌
The new default terminal application in Fedora is pretty. I love that it has the Dracula theme included in its theme options.
I purchased my current laptop a year ago. It’s a Lenovo ThinkPad T14s and it’s been nearly perfect for my needs. I got the model with 16GB of RAM, I should have opted for the 32GB model. My next laptop will have 32GB or more.
Looking forward to upgrading my daily driver to Fedora 41. I’ve been running 41 on a test system for the last month and it’s been solid.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there was a web developer who wanted a silly animation for his custom 404 error page. philipnewborough.co.uk/demos/canvas...
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Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division | TechCrunch The Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught of change.”
I can't help but think Firefox is in its last throes of decline. I really hope it manages to bounce back, somehow, but it's difficult to see how.
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Web Design Inspiration - Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design If you’re finding today a bit stressful for some reason, grab a respite by sinking into any of these web design inspiration websites.
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curl -v https://google.com - YouTube The little men in your computer do this every time you open google.com
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Edge to Edge Text – Frontend Masters Boost A modern FitText alternative.
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How Secure Is My Password? | Password Strength Checker | Security.org The #1 Password Strength Tool. Trusted and used by millions.
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Have I Been Pwned: Pwned Passwords Pwned Passwords are hundreds of millions of real world passwords previously exposed in data breaches. This exposure makes them unsuitable for ongoing use as they're at much greater risk of being used to take over other accounts.
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My Modern CSS Reset | jakelazaroff.com Another CSS reset, this one is loosely based on Josh W Comeau's CSS reset.
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CSS Tricks That Use Only One Gradient | CSS-Tricks In this article, we are not going to make complex stuff with CSS gradients. Instead, we’re keeping things simple and I am going to walk through all of the incredible things we can do with just one gradient.
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Thoughts on Arc - macwright.com The user-base size that consumer-facing startups need to meet expectations is just unfathomable because their average revenue per user rounds to zero. Arc is wildly successful but it needs to be just outstandingly successful to succeed. Right now it’s very popular in tech circles, but consumer software tech startups need to be popular like Amazon or Walmart.
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