Zoombombing, it’s what all the cool kids are doing these days! Unless you’re seriously living under a rock, you know that the world has gone a bit crazy, and we’re all on lockdown, trying to keep as far away from everyone else as we can. This has lead to a significant uptick in remote working,…
Virtual coworking space
The world has gone crazy, really crazy. And a lot of people are working from home that have not done that before, or at least not as much as they are now. For those who don’t like the social isolation that can come with working from home, or find it hard to work without the…
Everything is Cyber-Broken
“Everything is Cyber-Broken” is a talk that Troy Hunt and Scott Helme have been giving at NDC conferences for the past couple of years. They’ve never been recorded, as they’re more casual in nature and less scripted. Obviously they’re a little different every time, discussing the latest in the infosec and cybersecurity realms, but I’ve…
Add profile fields using Advanced Custom Fields
I was working on a WordPress site for a client this week and wanted to add a new field to the user profile, but not one that the user could themselves edit. And I thought that this was going to be really complicated. Advanced Custom Fields Pro to the rescue! If I’ve not talked about…
Don’t burn out
It’s tempting as a freelancer and business owner to just keep hustling, to think that working harder and longer is the way to success. Certainly in the early days there does need to be hard work, and in the run up to certain deadlines perhaps a few late nights aren’t unheard of, but it’s best…
Brave is the most private browser
I’ve been on a bit of a Brave trip recently, and that’s not about to end now, as I really am liking it as my primary browser. Recent research by a professor at Trinity College at the University of Dublin, Professor Douglas Leith, tested a number of browsers to see how much they “phone home” with…