Author: stuart

  • Canonical Multipass

    Multipass is a simple but powerful utility from Canonical that at its core lets you easily launch Ubuntu virtual machines from the command line. There is a lot more to Multipass than just launching Ubuntu images, but I think if you need more features than that, you’re probably better off looking at something like Vagrant…

  • First GitHub Repository

    First GitHub Repository

    I’ve been hacking code for many years now but have never considered myself a real software developer, despite having built apps in a variety of languages. Over the last couple of years I’ve enjoyed hacking away at Python and have created many websites, apps, and scripts but never really published or publicised them. I just…

  • New spam: HearTheMusicPlay scam

    I’ve been getting a few of these emails recently… A provocative subject line like “your website is broken”, or, “broken links on your homepage” which, when you’re running several websites like me, always stops the heart for a second as you rush to find out which of your sites are broken. But then the email…

  • BLAZE Laserlight

    Neat bike light: The Laserlight projects out of the blind spot to tackle the most common cause of cycling accidents – vehicles turning across an unseen bike. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhgGA06UZEU&w=560&h=315] https://www.blaze.cc/

  • LogMeIn Free Going Away

    Less than a year ago, from the LogMeIn blog: LogMeIn Free is and will remain free Yesterday, from the LogMeIn blog: LogMeIn’s free remote access product, LogMeIn Free, is going away. The FAQs include this doublespeak gem: In order to address the evolving needs of our customers, we will be unifying our portfolio of free…

  • Boot Champ

    Quickly boot into your Boot Camp partition from the menubar. https://github.com/kainjow/BootChamp