Remark
2020
Merging Internal USB Connectors
·3 mins
Recently I bought a new computer and while assembling it, I ran into a problem where I didn’t have enough internal USB Type A 2.0 (The “normal” rectangle one you gotta flip three times) headers on the motherboard. The outside of the case has one Type C (USB C) and one Type A SuperSpeed(+)?
2018
Employee Morale
·5 mins
The impact to a business of low employee morale can be monumental. The way in which these impacts manifest are plentiful with varying degrees of severity. Not only is it bad from a business perspective, but it’s also not fun to be an employee in a workplace with low morale or worse yet, be an employee with low morale.
Technical Debt
·6 mins
Technical Debt
/ˈtɛknɪk(ə)l dɛt/
noun
The result of poor and uninformed decisions, typically within a project.
but we need to go live two days ago!
synonyms: Design Debt, Code Debt
antonyms: Happy, Pleased, Content
Normal Debt> Normal Debt # Like any kind of debt, you assume it for a particular reason.
2017
Post Outage Review
·5 mins
No matter how well you plan for something, you will inevitably have something go wrong that simply couldn’t be catered for. One day you will find yourself dealing with an unplanned outage. Drawing from your bag of holding, you resolve the problem but now you have to provide answers to The Business - and it’s not happy.
2016
Ghost Emails Using Email Hosting
·2 mins
Ghost uses Nodemailer to fling emails around, which means you can use an email hosting solution with Ghost in order to send emails out. The Ghost team have covered self hosted mail configuration, though it might not be obvious what to do if you use a lesser known email hosting solution, or even operate your own.