Chris 
Yes. You absolutely can use a PC keyboard and a PC mouse on a Mac. With some caveats. I’m writing this post as I have work client right now that enforces use of their corporate Macbook Pro laptop. They provide the laptop, but won’t give me a Mac keyboard or mouse. Fortunately I have some … Read more
Five days a week I ride my bike. A lot of those days are done indoors, on what is a very nerdy exercise bike setup. There’s a bit more too it than that, and if you are at all interested, have a read of (one of) my other blog(s) over at CyclingIndoors.co.uk. Why that’s relevant … Read more
To upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to the latest LTS (Long Term Support) release, you’ll need to follow a series of steps. The current Ubuntu LTS at the time of writing is 22.04.3, and this process is unlikely to change in the near term future. Here are the steps I followed to upgrade from Ubuntu … Read more
Yesterday I got hit with the double whammy. I tried to upgrade GitLab to v16.3.4 as part of their recent critical security release when I realised that the GitLab server was running version 15.x (I don’t remember which minor release), so first I would need to install 16.0.0, then get up to 16.3.4. This, it … Read more
This one cost me a whole bunch of time. Annoyingly I got a Docker version of Postgres 16 working on one machine, but a couple of days later I needed to update another and I hit this error: Somewhat fortunately for me, this time around, was that this was a test setup I have used … Read more
I’m working on a UK Government project at the moment that has a lot of Cypress tests. The way they are set up is not exactly to my taste, but I mention it because it is relevant to the way the code will be structured below. However, the method I use to remove lines from … Read more
My computer is dual use. Gaming, and work. It runs pretty much 24/7/365, but when I play a game at night in Windows, then reboot back into Linux, I have to manually log in and mount my drive(s) or my overnight backups don’t work. Of course, I frequently forget to log in. And even when … Read more
This is one of those problems that is … well, 🤦♂️ face palming-ly easy 🤦♀️ when you see how it’s done. But I confess to spending ages trying to figure this out. And Google wasn’t much help, either. OK, so the problem is this: You want to create a new docker-compose.yaml file in your C# … Read more
In this post I’m going to cover how to convert from kebab case to camel case when using C#. The need for converting from kebab case to camel case is a common coding puzzle challenge, and the basis for this post is no different. I have been working through Exercism’s C# track and am on … Read more
If you work on any JavaScript / Node / TypeScript GOV.UK project, sooner or later you will come across the Nunjucks template language. And depending on your prior experience, you may find the whole thing quite limiting or confusing. Personally I think it’s good at what it does. It’s not fancy like React or Vue, … Read more
