Category: Review

I am working in a small team of friends learning Python. To learn the basics of it we decided to build a chess game. This is the third post about it. You can see part 1 and part 2 here. In this post, I will cover how I move the chess pieces. I do not… Continue reading Moving Chessboard Pieces with Pygame

Recently I wrote about learning Python by creating a chess game. I am new to Python, although not new to programming. Python has intrigued me for the last few months, especially how popular it seems to be (second place on GitHub fourth quarter 2020). When an opportunity came up to work with some friends and… Continue reading Creating a Chessboard with Pygame Part 2

After spending a lot of 2020 on Zoom meetings with choppy audio and frequent freezes, I decided it was time to upgrade my home wireless network. I began frequently using Zoom in December 2019 when doing some work for a company where all staff worked remotely (we were ahead of the curve). Noticing connection problems… Continue reading Amazon Eero Review

Hive is a service that lets you control electrical items from the internet or smartphone. The central part in the home is the hub which communicates with hive online. The hub receives its instructions and then tells the smart items in the home to switch on or off. These can be controlled by smartphone or… Continue reading Hive Connected Home – Brief Review

I received my iPad 3, AKA “The new iPad” on 16th March 2012. I previously owned the original iPad and an iPad 2, both of which were sold to make way for the newer version. The iPad 3 was fantastic. It was the first iPad with a retina display of which the retina display was… Continue reading The iPad 3 and a needed upgrade for me…

Visitors to your website are more likely to stick around and not abandon your website if the page is quick to load. Google has a whole host of information about this. There is typically no single solution that would speed a page load up on a website; instead, there are many small optimisations that can… Continue reading Optimizing Image Size for Your Website

Since I stumbled across Evernote a couple of years ago it has literally transformed the way I deal with my notes and paperwork. To put it bluntly, my organisation sucked and often I would have to spend hours digging through bags of paperwork to look for a passcode I filed somewhere or for a P45… Continue reading How I use Evernote to Keep More Organised