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Quickly spin up cloud-based machines with a desktop frontend

howinterestingblog@duck.com (Chris Gillatt) — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Updating Raspberry Pi OS from Stretch to Bookworm

howinterestingblog@duck.com (Chris Gillatt) — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Distributing tools with Brew & GitHub Actions - Part I

howinterestingblog@duck.com (Chris Gillatt) — Wed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Distributing tools with Brew & GitHub Actions - Part II

howinterestingblog@duck.com (Chris Gillatt) — Wed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Setting up Github comments on your blog with Giscus

howinterestingblog@duck.com (Chris Gillatt) — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Wait, what happened to Utterances?
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In my previous post, I described how to add a GitHub-based comments system to your blog using Utterances. In all the excitement of a free and open source comments platform for my blog, I forgot to check to see if it was still maintained, and it appears to have recently been mothballed. Utterances still works fine - for now, but it’s best practice to implement maintained dependencies.

Setting up Github comments on your blog with Utterances

howinterestingblog@duck.com (Chris Gillatt) — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been steadily migrating articles over from my old blogs over the past couple of weeks. It’s been a great excuse to look at some new (at least new to me) blog technologies and techniques. This one I like so much I thought I would share it with you all, and it’s a nice break from the older content I’ve been sifting through. This blog article is about how to use GitHub’s technology on your very own blog or website!

Running multiple Firefox profiles simultaneously on a Mac

howinterestingblog@duck.com (Chris Gillatt) — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been a big fan of the Firefox browser for a long time now. It’s fast, open source, secure and feature rich. However, one feature still eludes it - being able to run multiple instances simultaneously with differrent profiles. Chrome has long had the feature, which can be conveniently accessed through the profile switcher. As can be seen below, this too is possible with Firefox but Mozilla don’t make make it so easy.

You could be forgiven for wondering why this somewhat niche feature is required. Firstly it’s a good idea to keep your work and personal browsing separate. It can be fairly annoying (and in some cases anxiety inducing) to see adverts relating to work appearing in your downtime which can impact on your work-life balance and ability to disconnect. Similarly, personal browsing habits may lead to distractions at work. Secondly you’ll almost certainly need different browser addons. Work and personal life often requires very different feature-sets from your browser, and too many installed addons can severely impact on your browsers’ performance. It’s a good idea to split them out, and the way you do this is with different profiles. Another reason is website logins - there may be some sites which you have a personal and work account for, and to save you logging in and out as you start or finish work for the day can be somewhat laborious if there’s several.

In this article, we will explore how to create a new profile, and also how to run the default and new profile simultaneously on the same Apple Mac.