The last blog post was about Wayland, the new/old paradigm for window drawing where the programs are directly connected to the server without having to go through some kind of middleware that was best suited for a use case that never really took off....

The infuriating thing for me was that switch...

This is just a test to see if it works

So, what a lot of people don't realise is that when they buy those snazzy 5.1 or 7.1 surround gaming headphones, they're not actually buying headphones with 6 or 8 tiny little speakers in them. What they're actually buying is a pair of decent STEREO headphones and a license to use some software tha...

I have to work with chatbots every day now for my role. It's not something I specifically sought out, and isn't something I was especially hoping to do in my later life, but here I am. It makes me wonder about the hype around AI, as well as its detractors.

I think one problem is that some peo...

Personally, I think SSL certificates are only worthwhile if you're transferring secret information, like bank records or passwords, but I'm finding that more and more sites are just adding SSL anyway. I've got a personal axe to grind in that my Windows 98 machine would still be able to browse a...

So, after several months, grabbing an hour here and there in between work and parenting I've somehow managed to reach Level 4 in Project Euler. For anyone who doesn't know what that means, it means I've passed beyond the first 100 "public" questions, and have entered the "hidden" questions.

Th...

Chatting to YuloTomorrow on Twitter made me look into Project Euler, and it's kind of taken over my head.

For anyone who doesn't know Leonhard Euler was an 18th century Swiss mathematician who, basically, invented maths. OK, that's an overstatement, but to quote his wikipedia page. "So many thin...