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Setting Up a Django Project: A Step-by-Step Guide

Are you ready to dive into the world of Django and set up a project from scratch? Join me on this step-by-step journey as I walk you through the process of creating a Django project, from setting up the environment to integrating authentication via Django All Auth. If you’re venturing into Django development or looking for a structured approach to set up a project, this guide will be your go-to…

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Obsidian or DayOne for Journalling?

Reflecting on a Decade with Day One Introduction: A Journey through 10 Years For over a decade, I’ve been faithfully chronicling my life with Day One, cherishing the “On This Day” feature that lets me revisit my past memories. However, with the need to save money, I am considering a shift to Obsidian, enticed by its remarkable linking capabilities and comprehensive personal knowledge management…

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Review - LG 4K Monitor connected to my Macbook

I love having a lot of screen space on my computer desk. I have the Macbook screen but I’m used to having more with the old iMac and a 1920 x 1080 monitor connected to it. So when I got the MacBook I went for the LG 4K monitor and it’s working really well. I have a couple of apps to choose from to adjust the screen resolution. Mostly I use the default largest available and occasionally swap to a…

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I Didn’t Think I Want Apple Vision Pro

I finally managed to watch the Apple presentation for WWDC 23 and the Apple Vision Pro does look kind of stunning. The price is huge, but what you get from it means the value is also huge. I can’t wait to actually try one out in person and see if it’s as good in augmented reality and virtual reality as it is in the hyped up presentation from WWDC. My imagination has been stimulated and I can…

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Remind Me App - Which One?

What’s The Best To Use For A Reminders App I have a number of tasks I have to complete while at work which I need to be reminded about. In previous years I used the application Due. I was happy using it and it worked really well for what I needed to do. The best thing about it is that it has this persistent reminder thing. It will tell you you’ve got to do something and then five minutes later…

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2FA with Hardware Keys or Authenticator Apps

Two Factor Authentication Is Good but What Level of 2FA Do You Need There are different levels of two factor authentication. There are some places you can sign in and the website will push out a time-limited code. It’ll come out either as an email or it’ll come out through a message to your phone. It could even go to another device with which you were also logged in to the same account. It does…

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Tana vs Other PKM Applications

Tana vs Other PKM Applications

Tana versus Logseq and Obsidian I put in my application to get the access to the beta version of Tana, waited for quite a long time and forgot about it. Then the invitation arrived and I couldn’t wait to give it a try. Here are my first impressions of Tana. You have to login to the software using a Google email address. I have to wonder if there’s too much of a Google connection there. There…

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Getting Into Warp Speed With The Terminal

Getting Into Warp Speed With The Terminal

I’ve recently come across a new terminal called Warp and it looks a lot better than using iTerm. The only thing it doesn’t do is to allow me to use Power Level 10K to configure the command line prompt. It doesn’t look like it’s going to do that any time soon. I could change the command line prompt to starship which it does allow at the moment. The command line area is better for working with the…

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Affinity Designer Version 2 Tutorials

Affinity Designer Version 2 Tutorials

Serif have made available the new versions with a 40% discount from what the price is going to be as standard. If you buy the whole kit and caboodle it’s costing €119 and that covers all three applications across three platforms. I use these applications across the Mac and iOS platforms and that makes it a no-brainer to buy the full set of applications. At least we don’t have to think about how…

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Database for Movies or Books in Obsidian

Database for Movies or Books in Obsidian

Using Obsidian To Make A Database For Books, Television Series And Movies I’ve heard many people get excited over Obsidian and say how wonderful it is. A couple of years ago I gave it a try and I didn’t really like it very much. I gravitated towards Craft, because it’s a proper Mac application and looks good while doing it’s stuff. I’ve paid for a subscription for the year for Craft because I…

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Kasm Cloud Computing on Linode

Kasm Cloud Computing on Linode

Getting properly good and geeky using Kasm. This is a service which lets you have total anonymity online. If you need to do any hacking and you don’t want to let anyone know you are there, then this is the tool to use. The Ultimate Hacking Tool. I followed the tutorial from Network Chuck (See the tutorial below) and it was fairly easy to setup. Of course I did run into some small problems on the…

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Raspberry Pi Fun and Games

Raspberry Pi Fun and Games

I’ve had the Raspberry Pi 4 for about a month now and I’m really pleased with it. It is really ticking all the boxes for my good and geekiness. I’m learning a lot about the Linux command line while I am setting up a whole lot of different things. Using the command line application Nano to edit set up files is pretty easy once you get used to it. Moving around the file system is no problem when…

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Craft App Versus Logseq

Craft App Versus Logseq

In the world of personal knowledge management applications Craft and Logseq are two really good options. Each with their strengths and weaknesses. The main thing to note is that Logseq is an Electron application like Obsidian and for some people this might be a big red flag. There are things you can do with a proper Mac app which you can’t do with an electron application. For example, I like to…

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The Good & Geeky Way to Learn Coding Skills

The Good & Geeky Way to Learn Coding Skills

Over the last few months I’ve been learning to code. I started with the lessons available from Mosh Hamedani. I started with learning JavaScript and SQL followed by Git and GitHub. Git is not a coding language but it’s something you need to know about if you’re going to learn to code. It’s a version control system which code is also used to collaborate with each other. Git is also useful for…

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Apps For Learning - Mac and iOS

Apps For Learning – Mac and iOS

A Perpetual and Constant Learner Yesterday I learned of an application called Anki and I installed it on my Mac, my iPhone and my iPad. On the Mac I installed a couple of different versions. I found applications which were not the ones I was looking for because they didn’t have all the tools and possibilities of the original. I couldn’t work out why the menus were not there I was looking for. It…

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Obsidian - iCloud or GitHub Sync?

Obsidian – iCloud or GitHub Sync?

Wasted A Lot Of Time with Git I saw on a few places online where people had been synchronising their Obsidian documents over git. I can say that the advantage would be you would have a backup on steroids due to the versioning. This is what git is all about and I decided it would be a good idea to give it a try. I have the paid for version of Working Copy and I wanted to get into it and use it. I…

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Privacy and Security for Activists- Tails OS

Privacy and Security for Activists- Tails OS

Taking Privacy Security And Encryption to the Next Level If you’ve been following this channel for a while you’ll know that I am keen to promote privacy, encryption and security. One of the easiest ways to protect your data when you’re sending emails is to use the webmail available with Vivaldi browser. An easy to use PGP service. Or you can set up encryption using email clients like MailMate or…