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Building Chinwag: Local-First WhatsApp Chat Analysis in Go
Parsing WhatsApp exports into a timeline, running lexicon-based sentiment over it, and keeping every byte on your own machine.
7 Apr 2026
6 min
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GPG signed commits in PHPStorm on CentOS 7
Having the functionality of automatically being prompted to sign your commits while still using PHPStorms Git GUI means you’ll never forget to sign commits again. To start with, the version…
23 Jan 2019
1 min
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Making a simple RTS game – Week Three
So week two of making an RTS was September 2nd – 9th. Almost three months later I’ve managed to spend most of my weekend on it. This is pretty typical timeline of any of my personal side…
27 Nov 2016
3 min
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Making a simple RTS game – Week Two
So week two has gone relatively well, I didn’t spend as much time working on the game as I would have liked, it’s hard going from programming at work to programming at home every day…
9 Sep 2016
3 min
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Making a simple RTS game – Week One
So I’ve decided I want to make a game again, nothing crazy just a simple RTS game, browser based (mainly for speed of development and that I’m interested to see what it’s like), I’ve…
1 Sep 2016
2 min
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Easy Caching with StashPHP
Frequently with PHP you are going to need to cache things, mostly expensive SQL queries, but also data you aren’t going to want to be inserting into the database on every page hit, for…
8 Sep 2015
3 min
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Being a PHP Developer in 2015
This is just some thoughts on being a PHP developer in 2015. A standard web project before used to just require you to setup a local web server, and then you’d upload to a standard web host…
27 Jan 2015
2 min
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Apache Localhost Rendering Slowly?
Is your localhost taking longer than expected to load? A possible quick fix is to edit your httpd.conf file and set 'ServerName' to 127.0.0.1:80 . This can make the difference between…
3 Nov 2014
1 min
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Populating a Form with a dropdown (jQuery)
I thought I’d share this, maybe it’ll help somebody else. Basically this will take the value of the drop down (select) and show() that many input fields. Javascript $(document).ready…
5 Feb 2012
1 min
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CSS Code for Wrapping Long URLs and Text
Ran into a problem last night where a long email was messing up a design in smaller screen resolutions. Perfect fix down below: pre { white-space: pre; /* CSS 2.0 */ white-space: pre-wrap; /…
4 Oct 2011
1 min
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WordPress – Shortcode in PHP files
So in WordPress with plugins etc. you end up using shortcode in posts to keep things simple, an example would be if you want to display a gallery you would just use: [galleries id="1"] Howe…
11 Sep 2011
1 min
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Why I am learning Perl
So this post may not be to everyone’s taste, its more a post to remind myself why I’ve decided to learn Perl. If anyone doesn’t know I already know PHP and Java. Perl is a programming…
19 Aug 2011
2 min
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