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
Category: Nerdy-Gudry
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
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
Using Feefo with Prestashop/Thirybees
I set up feefo with my prestashop store but due to unrelated personal circumstances I never did much work with the website after this. Here are my notes from the time, tidied up a bit. Appologies the post lacks narrative, it’s got details of how I did each task without much info on what the…Continue reading Using Feefo with Prestashop/Thirybees
Setting up Phillips Hue on Mycroft mark 1 – including guide to basic SSH access
I will explain the difficulties I was having installing the Mycroft Phillips Hue Skill using the verbal command and show how I installed this skill using SSH. This can also serve as a basic guide for using SSH with Mycroft, including how to change the default password and how to install apps from github repositories.
Adventures with Mycroft Mark 1: Second hand blues and re-installing Mycroft AI
In this blog I introduce my new buddy Mycroft, an Open Source voice activated home assistant. I detail how to re-install his software if he has a big problem.
Postcode based targeted email marketing for events using Mautic
Mautic, Open Source marketing software, can be used to send targeted emails about events to people on your mailing list who live within a radius of that event. The best thing about this process is the lists will always be up to date when you need them: next time an event is in the same area you have a list ready and waiting. Here’s how it’s done.