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WordPress Android app

December 19, 2018 by Dave Walker / 0 Comment

I’m sitting in the front room with wife and dog trying to avoid watching The One Show. Greg bloody shouty man is shouting about sweet wrappers and Kipper ...

Visual Studio Code
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Visual Studio Code – Matching text from large files

December 19, 2018 by Dave Walker / 0 Comment

I often have to pick matching text from large files. To do this in Visual Studio Code : Ctrl-Shift-L – selects all occurrences Ctrl-i – selects each...

Windows desktop icons have a green tick
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Windows 10 : All my desktop icons have green ticks against them

December 18, 2018 by Dave Walker / 0 Comment

After a reboot my desktop Windows icons have a green tick against them.  This reminded me of source control / upload managers like SNV or Dropbox.

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Dell Inspiron – Missing Ctrl Break key

December 11, 2018 by Dave Walker / 0 Comment

I have a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 gaming laptop as my main development machine.  I’d recommend it but there are a few quirks. Function Keys First of all the ...

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Nicolas Jaar – Boiler Room 2013

May 17, 2018 by Dave Walker / 0 Comment

This is a great set from back in 2013. From around 21 mins in Nicolas Jaar creates some heavenly sounds with a mix of samples including a little bit of Destiny&...

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Preventing Default behaviour on a form button with Jquery

July 19, 2017 by Dave Walker / 0 Comment

In the JsFiddle example below this is how to prevent the default button behaviour.

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Cycling Low Marishes near Malton

September 14, 2016 by Dave Walker / 0 Comment

I’ve got a nice regular 19 mile bike route which includes a lovely flat section of road going by Low Marishes near Malton.  Yesterday was such a lovely da...

Vodafone Broadband UK
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Vodafone Broadband – Website security certificate coming from Vodafone Content Control even though it’s switched off

September 7, 2016 by Dave Walker / 7 Comments

I’ve just recently moved from BT to Vodafone broadband and all is well – apart from a strange error while using Reddit and Imgur.  Other users seem ...

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Change the battery on Garmin Forerunner 10

August 2, 2016 by Dave Walker / 3 Comments

The Garmin Forerunner 10 has been a great GPS sports watch for me. Now though after a couple of years the battery life is getting a bit short, so I thought it'...

Btwin Triban 3 Red
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Btwin Triban 3 Red

August 2, 2016 by Dave Walker / 0 Comment

I’ve bought myself a road bike after many years of using an ancient super heavy mountain bike – which is a tad too big for me, although I still thin...

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