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Proposing a Night Mode API

2018-09-032020-03-27 — Posted inDesign, Software, Technology — 9 min read

I have recently seen some discussion about the use of night mode tech, and had the thought that developers ought to get together and standardise its use, seeing as how commonplace it has become.

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DRM: Deliberately Risking Media

2018-06-062020-03-27 — Posted inGaming, Movies & TV, Software, Technology — 15 min read

DRM, digital rights management, is the term used to describe attempts to control the use and ownership of digital media post-purchase. I think that this is a pretty poor practice, and will detail some reasons why.

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Captcha Paranoia

2018-05-292020-03-27 — Posted inBrowser, Privacy, Software, Technology — 6 min read

In the wake of Data Collection getting some discussion in the media, and greater scrutiny by governmental bodies, I felt that there was perhaps too much focus on Facebook, and that something that Google has been doing has just skirted past everyone’s minds.

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Mod Making Process

2018-01-262020-03-27 — Posted inBrowser, Software, Technology — 13 min read

In the process of making a new mod for Vivaldi, I thought I might document some of the steps I went through, to show one way you can make a mod. I’ll follow how I made my “Site Security Info Favicon” mod.

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Hiding the EV Owner in Vivaldi

2017-12-122020-03-27 — Posted inBrowser, Design, Software, Technology — 6 min read

Install the mod in this blog post to get rid of the EV site owner name in Vivaldi. It’s not quite as useful as you might initially think.

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Optimising some Wi-Fi settings for Android Oreo

2017-12-072020-03-27 — Posted inSoftware, Technology — 4 min read

You may have different opinions on what exactly is the best phone charging strategy. I’m not a super heavy user of my phone, and I like to see just how long I can get my battery to last on a single charge. But in doing some experimenting, I found some things I consider a little odd in the latest version of Android (8.0.0).

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Vivaldi through WSL

2017-11-112020-03-27 — Posted inBrowser, Software, Technology — 7 min read

This blog post aims to explain how to run Vivaldi through WSL – the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Provides a walk-through for the Ubuntu and OpenSUSE distributions.

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