My Timer
I didn’t set out to build another timer app. I just wanted a decent one. What the timer app actually does At its core, the app is a clean, distraction-free countdown timer. You set the time, press start, and the screen becomes about one thing only: the countdown. There’s no account to create, nothing to configure before you can use it, and no surprise interruptions once it’s running. It’s designed to be useful in everyday situations: It works instantly, loads fast, and doesn’t try to turn timing into a lifestyle. Designed to be calm, not clever A lot of timer…
AI Text Cleaner
The AI Text Cleaner is a tool designed to strip away the telltale signs of AI-generated writing, making text feel more natural, human, and authentic. While modern AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini produce fluent prose, they often reveal themselves through overly polite phrasing, unnatural punctuation, and a risk-averse, overly balanced tone. These traits are not just noticeable to readers, but detectable by automated systems assessing things like sentence variation and predictability. The AI Text Cleaner addresses this by removing robotic intros, replacing smart punctuation, tidying odd spacing, and offering both light and deep cleaning modes. It ensures that while…
Free QR Code Generator
Generate pages of QR codes ready for printing. Simple, but does the job. Free QR Code Generator
Million Dollar Pixel
The World is full of many pixels in a variety of many different colours, but this one right here is unused and is available to you right now for the special price of $1,000,000.00 – a cool million United States Dollars. This pixel is the one. That one, there on the left. Frequently asked questions What forms of payment do you take? Cash, PayPal, Electronic Bank Transfer, Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP.Can I choose the colour of the pixel? Absolutely. Any Hex colour from #000000 to #FFFFFF.Can I change the colour later on? Yes, I am flexible, but limit the change to…
Power Apps are rubbish #206
I want to set a field in a SharePoint List to the current User Easy enough. You can use the Patch Command to update a record in a SharePoint list so as follows? Nope Thanks for the Low Code solution Microsoft!
VPS Hosting comparison
Digital Ocean, Hetzner, Linode and Vultr offer some fantastic Virtual Server solutions from as little as $5. A comparison table of the entry level virtual servers from these three providers are listed below and any of them will provide a great solution if you want to run your own server. Linode and Digital Ocean have great reference guides to help you setup your server. Don’t forget that you can use any of the guides on any of the hosts with a bit of interpretation. FANTASIC VALUE HOSTING Sign up to Hetzner Updated 30/07/24 – Added Hetzner Updated 25/02/16 – New…
My PHP Singleton
If you have not come across design patterns, they are well worth reading up on. There is a great overview for PHP developers at IBM.
Composer behind corporate Proxy Server
Don’t use quotes around the parameter Encode passwords with Self signed certificate in certificate chain
Free print at home Xmas Present game
Help yourself to a very merry Xmas Present Game, totally free and great fun for the family. Warning This Game can bring out the best and worst in your family.
Show vehicle positions with the Google Maps v3 API
Most people are already familiar with Google Maps, so why not utilise that to present your business data to your users. Today I am going to show you how to use the Google Maps API to track vehicles using their AVL data. This is something I have done for the Fire Service to show the location of Fire Engines across the county. For this we are going to need the following: To start with we will need a simple page that will include the required JavaScript, StyleSheets and HTML code to provide a placeholder for the Google Map.