MySqlException (0x80004005): The Command Timeout expired before the operation completed

Tonight has all been about trying to get rid of some ASP.Net MVC yellow screens of death (YSOD) caused by MySQL timing out.

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Ubuntu Arc Menu Upgrade Error

Tonight a desktop notification popped up on my Ubuntu 19.10 desktop to remind me that my Arc Menu Gnome Extension had an update.

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VueJS GistPad Interactive Playground

Recently I installed a VS Code extension called GistPad about which the marketplace docs go on to say:

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How to remove the .NET Core Runtime and SDK

Today I noticed a windows machine that I look after had absolutely loads of versions of the dotnetcore framework installed on it.

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Exclude all hits from known bots and spiders

Today I decided to take a look at my Google Analytics for this website and I had way more traffic than a site like mine ought to have.

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