Philip Newborough - Web Developer and Linux Enthusiast

Screenshot of A Drum Kit for Oliver

Pinned Demo: A Drum Kit for Oliver

A basic drum kit created for my grandson and favourite baby human, Oliver.

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The GNOME extensions site/service has been sluggish to the point of unuseable for me lately. It's behaving like a site under heavy load, although I have no data to back that up.

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Updated my gaming rig to Debian testing and installed the latest NVIDIA drivers. It's not the most powerful machine in the world, but it plays the odd game of Counter-Strike ok.

Screenshot taken from my gaming rig.

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Just finished watching The Penguin. It was darker than I had expected, which is not a bad thing. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Screenshot of GNOME Settings app in Debian testing.

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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.

GitHub warning - You have exceeded a secondary rate limit.

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Philip Newborough and a donkey enjoying a beer.

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My name is 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.

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