David Peach

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  • Are you being a fucking idiot?

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    (Originally pasted into facebook) I don’t often stick long posts on this god-awful surveillance website, but after hearing about some friends and family suffering, I didn’t want to hold back. If you’re going into shops etc without a mask on when you should wear one, you’re a fucking idiot.If you’re holding personal gatherings when you…

  • 2020 — Review of the year

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    Disclaimer — this post is still in a bit of a draft state. I have published it, however, as it is New Year’s Eve 2020 and if I don’t do it now I will probably forget to do it. What an absolute bloody shit show this year has been. I’ve been super lucky when compared…

  • Setting up my own labs

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    I’m going to begin setting up my own “labs” area to play around with various web technologies. For the longest time now I have been holding myself back quite a bit by only really learning technologies around current roles at the time and for my own personal site. This has mainly revolved around Laravel and…

  • 31 Films of Halloween 2020

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    I think I’m going to try and do the 31 days of Halloween by watching 1 new horror film each day in October. (Or just 31 new horror films by the month’s end is more likely for my timetable) I may alter the order as I go. 1 — Suspiria (2018 remake) — watched 1st…

  • No better feeling than to create

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    There is no better feeling than that of creating. Yes, that is a super vague statement but I wanted to write something — anything — and this post is it. I have spent too much time tonight just clicking around reading articles and watching videos around the world pandemic and the complete fucking cretins governing…

  • Moving my video share links to my own Peertube

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    I am moving all of my old YouTube embedded videos to my self-hosted Peertube videos. So that Google inc. can not track you on my site.

  • On Keeping a Commonplace book/site

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    From Wikipedia: As soon as I heard about the idea of a commonplace I was immediately interested and wanted to start keeping one myself. But then I soon realised — my website is kind of on the way to becoming what I would call my own commonplace. I tend to write about a bunch of…

  • Been learning to use Docker Swarm

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    Despite not yet managing to get what I have learnt implemented, I have nonetheless took on board some good concepts around docker and docker swarm

  • 10 Albums that greatly influenced my taste in music

    10 Albums that greatly influenced my taste in music

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    No explanations, no reviews, just album covers in alphabetical order. Thanks to Rafe for the inspiration for this.

  • February 2020 round-up

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    Here is the first monthly round-up I’ve done. Just some songs, albums, films and games that I’ve enjoyed in February 2020.

  • I think I prefer reading on a Kindle

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    I have always tried to maintain the belief that reading novels from physical books is always the best way to go. And whilst there is something to be said about a physical living breathing book that can’t run out of batteries, I have found something interesting with my kindle. When im reading a book, I…

  • I need to write more

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    I literally started writing this post at the moment I had the thought that I should be writing more. I love the idea of being a writer and for that I know that all I need to do… is write. You see, I keep finding myself wanted to write about different topics that interest me,…