Cold War on Ice is an excellent documentary about the USSR vs. Canada ice hockey Summit Series 1972 games. I find it to be quite balanced, showing the perception from both sides, featuring the interviews with the same people back in the day and their take on it now, and plenty of great footage. It’s … Continue reading Cold War on Ice
Back in July, Slack acquired Hipchat with the intent of migrating all the users and shutting down the service. For us at work, these were very sad news. We’ve been using HipChat for years, and relied on it heavily. We have also evaluated Slack in its early days and didn’t quite like it at the … Continue reading HipChat to Slack migration
After some digging around and troubleshooting, I managed to fix the DsgnWrks Instagram Importer WordPress plugin on my site. It turns out quite a few people had an issue with it, which started back in September/October of last year (2017). The solution, they say, is just to remove the authenticated Instagram user from the plugin settings, … Continue reading Instagram Importer works again!
Last week marked my fourth year at Qobo. Here are the blog posts that cover my first, second, and third years. And with one more now, I think it’s starting to fall into a trend of crazy years. Yes, indeed. The last year has been no different. There were all the usual components: A tonne … Continue reading Four years at Qobo
forget-db: A simple(ish) command line tool written in PHP 7.1 using Laravel Zero and Faker to help you anonymise/pseudonymise data within your database to support protecting either sensitive information, or peoples right to be forgotten with GDPR compliance. The tool allows you to connect to either mysql, postgres, sqlite or sqlserver and replace defined information … Continue reading forget-db – a simple GDPR inspired tool to anonymise confidential database data