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  • Issues I found during WordPress.com to .org migration

    Issues I found during WordPress.com to .org migration

    Whilst migrating from wordpress.com to an installation of the open source WordPress, I hit some gotchas that I couldn’t easily find information about elsewhere. So, I figured I’d document my findings in case anyone else has issues. Read more

  • Why I moved my blog

    Why I moved my blog

    Unfortunately, there is a war going on within the WordPress community. To stay as far away as possible from it, I have moved my blog to a hosting provider that is not related to what is happening. I wanted to talk a little bit about what is going on and why I moved. Read more

  • Four new Amiga products for September 2024

    Four new Amiga products for September 2024

    Since the June Amiga Expo, I have been developing some new Amiga related products. I challenged myself to launch four of these throughout September. I managed to achieve this, so I figured I should talk about what I have launched. Read more

  • Repairing an Amiga that caught on fire!

    Repairing an Amiga that caught on fire!

    Karl at Retro32 likes to challenge me, and this time he had an interesting one. When he turned on an Amiga 600 motherboard he acquired, smoke and a small flame came out of the motherboard! Read more

  • Fixing a reproduction Amiga 500 Plus motherboard

    Fixing a reproduction Amiga 500 Plus motherboard

    I’ve had several customer machines on my bench lately, there is one in particular I think is worthy of a blog post because the repair was weird. Read more

  • Building my ideal 486 laptop

    Building my ideal 486 laptop

    Over the past few weeks, I’ve learned far more than I initially wanted to about the Dell Latitude XP series. I originally purchased a Latitude XP 450C (a 486 DX2 50MHz with a passive matrix display) and ended up making a 4100T (486 DX4 100MHz with a TFT display). This is the journey. Read more