Welcome to my fourth blog about HexOS. I’m building a HexOS NAS for my family home and documenting my user journey as I go. You can read my previous posts here. I have build my machine and installed HexOS, this is my first time playing with it. I am at the welcome screen and lets…Continue reading Playing with HexOS Part 1: losing my mind and my pool
Coop bank review
In this series of blogs I am reviewing banking apps and earning a little money from account switching offers as I go. I used to struggle to manage my money but I now have a lot more control over my finances thanks to Starling’s banking app. I’m interested to see if any other banks can…Continue reading Coop bank review
Making my HEXOS install disk using Balena Etcher on Fedora
This is a little extra blog for my HexOS series. I didn’t include it with the main content as I felt it was a bit niche being on fedora and not necessarily relevant to the project long term as they may use another method of distributing the software than this. Also, as a long time…Continue reading Making my HEXOS install disk using Balena Etcher on Fedora
Installing HexOS
Welcome to my third blog about HexOS! I’m buying, building and installing a HexOS NAS for my family home. I’m documenting my user journey as my small contribution to this amazing project. You can read my previous post about building my NAS hardware here. I’m now trying to install HexOS – and through no fault…Continue reading Installing HexOS
Ikea LÖVA co-speepling leaf canopy hack for bed sharing with kids
This is my guide to using IKEA LÖVA leaf bed canopies for an adult size bed, for example for co-sleeping in a family bed with your kids. This might also work well for adults with sensory needs. It involves 3D printed components, which can be ordered from a third party if you don’t have access…Continue reading Ikea LÖVA co-speepling leaf canopy hack for bed sharing with kids
How to take Screenshots of a banking app on android
I’m working on a series of blogs about banking apps, and screenshots are important to document what I see: however some banking apps don’t allow screenshots at all. Starling, for example, has an option to enable screenshots for 15 minutes but Cooperative Bank doesn’t have that option. Getting round this took me while to figure…Continue reading How to take Screenshots of a banking app on android
Building my HexOS NAS
Welcome to my second blog about HexOS. I’m buying, building and installing HexOS on a NAS for my family home. I’m documenting my user journey as my small contribution to this amazing project. You can read my first post about choosing hardware here. HexOS NAS software is designed to be simple to configure and use,…Continue reading Building my HexOS NAS
How I chose hardware for my Hexos NAS
Welcome to my first blog about HexOS: I’m buying, building and installing a NAS for my family home. I’m documenting my user journey as a small contribution to this amazing project. For about a decade I’ve wanted private home server to backup my family photos and media. However as a busy single mum I’ve not…Continue reading How I chose hardware for my Hexos NAS
What I learned making websites for charities
This is just a brief wrap up Gingerling Design, including my ethos and motivation for making websites trading under that name. That project is now closed and I don’t do this work anymore following my dads death, however, I learned a lot so good to jot it down! Charity sector website burnout In my long…Continue reading What I learned making websites for charities
Monzo review
When I was working on a personal carbon footprint tracker with Cogo, I spent a lot of time looking at banking apps. Cogo used Open Banking to pull over users day to day transactions and then assigned each transaction a carbon footprint. I was pretty surprised at how much variety there was in banking app…Continue reading Monzo review