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Oct/20

Automating Toggl With Android Tasker

Filed Under Mobile Phone at 23rd October 2020 8:20 by

Overview This follows on from the first post about time tracking and setting up Toggl. Automating time tracking helps alleviate the burden of remembering to start and stop timers. There maybe situations where it would not be good etiquette to … Continue reading →

05

Oct/20

Household Calendar

Filed Under Productivity at 5th October 2020 0:01 by

Overview The Tsang household uses a shared calendar to plan events thanks to @ for starting this off. The two key people who use the calendars at the moment is my partner and myself (jokingly the Tsang Corporation shareholders). I’ll … Continue reading →

07

Sep/20

Upgrading MySQL Running In Docker (Compose)

Filed Under Container, Database at 7th September 2020 0:01 by

Overview I wanted to try and upgrade my MySQL database from 5.7 to 8.0 however I have containerised my database install. What I thought was a immutable container would be a simple burn and switch turned out to be a … Continue reading →

03

Aug/20

Install Network UPS Monitoring Server

Filed Under Infrastructure at 3rd August 2020 0:01 by

Overview I have been using an Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) on and off for years. It was in the last few years when we noticed the lights brightening and dimming on halogen bulbs I decided to look into it deeper … Continue reading →

01

Jul/20

WiFi Features To Consider

Filed Under Networking at 1st July 2020 0:01 by

Overview Here a few considerations I think are worth looking into in your next networking setup. I tried to list things that are less commonly known and marketed but makes living the wireless lifestyle easier. Fast Roaming The ability to … Continue reading →

06

Jun/20

Daily Standup With My Family

Filed Under Blog, Productivity at 6th June 2020 0:01 by

Overview Taking the Agile manifesto and using in day to day work life is a common place at work (I hope). I thought I could try and apply them to my personal life too and started daily stand ups with … Continue reading →

04

May/20

Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop Clipboard Sharing Not Working Using VirtualBox

Filed Under Linux, Virtualization at 4th May 2020 0:01 by

I have a desktop Ubuntu virtual machine(VM) ready to be cloned so I can spin up a VM as quick as possible. Recently, the machines would loose the ability to share clipboard and the fix is below: sudo apt install … Continue reading →

02

Mar/20

Filtering Websites With Ubiquiti Security Gateway And OpenDNS

Filed Under Networking at 2nd March 2020 0:01 by

Overview The Unifi Security Gateway (USG) can be setup to assign a custom DNS server. The DNS server itself will perform the blocking based on the sites people/devices access. Pre-Requisites In order for everything to work beyond a working Unifi … Continue reading →