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1990 Mitsubishi Lancer Liftback 1800 GLXi 4WD

Leave a Comment / Cars, Lifestyle / Marc Hughes

My new motor a Mitsubishi Lancer GLXi liftback 4×4. 3 years older than me and 3 years before the evo this lancer was way ahead of its time with power steering, electric windows and sunroof,fuel injection,3 way catalytic converter and under heavy braking the vcu functions as a anti lock braking modulator which prevents any […]

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Humans.txt, not footer credits

Leave a Comment / Technology, Web Development / Marc Hughes

One thing I have noticed is how credits are evolving differently for web developers than designers. Freelance designers working on a small project by themselves, Still tend to credit themselves in the footer. Footer credits tend to look cheap and unprofessional. The correct way of doing things is to include yourself in the humans.txt file.

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Comparing open source applications for managing a mail server

1 Comment / Linux, Technology, Web Performance / Marc Hughes

Recently I decided to host a mail server and separate email from my webserver. For most people or production use, this is usually a no brainer. Closing off more ports meaning it was more secure but this decision was mainly down to performance. If I wanted to use spam detection and scan the emails for

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Northern Soul Playlist

Leave a Comment / Music, Playlists / Marc Hughes

Northern Soul was a music and dance movement started in the north of England during the 1960s. Fast tempo soul music was discovered by young people in the mod subculture. Although I’ll note not all music in this playlist is strictly “Northern Soul”.

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How to speed up your WordPress site

Leave a Comment / Technology, Web Performance, Wordpress / Marc Hughes

This post will explain how to get the best performance from your WordPress site. 1. Choosing a good theme The first thing you do after your WordPress installation is to pick a theme. You can follow every other step on here; if you have a buggy badly maintained theme, then your website will run slow

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Explaining Kernel space for HTTP/2 & HTTP/3

Hello HTTP/3

1 Comment / Technology, Web Development, Web Performance / Marc Hughes

This is a follow up to my article: The internet is about to get a hell of a lot quicker. I explained the benefits of HTTP/2. Now I will explain what will become HTTP/3. I mentioned gQuic, an experimental protocol used by Google in 2012. It used UDP for transferring HTTP, The starting point of

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The internet is about to get a hell of a lot quicker

1 Comment / Web Development, Web Performance / Marc Hughes

We have come a long way in many areas of technology. However, when it comes to the web. We still haven’t fixed the problems with the protocols we use, and when we do, we are slow at utilizing them. For example, although HTTP/2 was officially introduced in 2015 and was based on the SPDY experimental

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