Dropbox Paper Invite

So it's been a while since I've posted here. I've been busy looking after family and trying to get back into boxing and health recently. Anyway what's shiny? Dropbox have given me access to the beta program Dropbox Paper. So hold tight for a review soon. I'll try and do a better review than my last techie review which i think was an Amazon AWS review. 

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GitHub blog hosting and static site generation

My blog has moved platforms quite a bit over the years and is currently hosted on blogger and was previously with a company and app that is no longer with us. I have a lot of posts and content, and a custom domain and URLs that come up in search engines so moving away from blogger isn’t going to be an insignificant task. So this is a test post to try out GitHub blog hosting...

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Mac OSX Terminal Permissions Issues

So with Node Package Manager, HomeBrew, PIP and various other package managers that throw errors on my aging development Mac the following rightly or wrongly fixes most if not all of the issues.I am posting here to save me searching every day for the syntax and answersudo chown -R :admin /usr/local

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Numi ‒ Beautiful calculator app for Mac

I use Soulver on the Mac/iOS to do natural language style calculations on my finances and software startup ideas and bootstrapping costs but there is a new similar application that's worth having a look at and that's Numi - The beautiful calculator app for Mac http://numi.io/

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Amazon Web Services goes down, taking Netflix, Reddit, Pocket and more with it

---- Amazon Web Services goes down, taking Netflix, Reddit, Pocket and more with it // The Next Web - International technology news, business & culture If you're having trouble accessing several parts of the Web today, it's because Amazon Web Services is having a bit of a glitch this morning. A server issue in Virginia is affecting most of the northeast, killing the infrastructure for many popular products and services including Netflix, Product Hunt, Medium, SocialFlow, Buffer, GroupMe,...

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