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The quest is over - I have found the perfect PHP library for parsing RSS and Atom feeds. I present you SimplePie. My 2024 side project is a browser-based RSS reader/aggregator. This post isn't about...

I operate a $5 Linode VPS and I just upgraded Ubuntu from 20.04 to 22.04. I thought I would copy the young'uns and ask ChatGPT how do to it. Here's what it told me. Surprisingly it worked. But...

I don't, as a rule, pay full price for any game (with some exceptions). Like many people spoiled by Steam sales and a huge Steam library, I am patient enough to wait until a game goes on sale before...

I bought a new Mac: a 2024 M3 MacBook Air that was just released a couple of weeks ago. This replaces a 2019 Intel i9 MacBook Pro. That machine was heavy and cumbersome, and slow as molasses despite...

Freshly motivated at the turn of 2024, I started working slowly but steadily on refreshing the ChasingCode site and blog. It took a month of daily tinkering before releasing v2 on February 1st. Here...

I'm calling it early - this is the year of SQLite (for me at least). If 2024 were to have a specific theme, SQLite is as good as any. This has been building up for a while, and now it's time to fully...

Have you ever started typing a reply to someone's post on social media just to stop and delete it because you realized it sounds negative? I've been struggling with this concept for a long time. I...

At the end of 2023 I found myself burnt out on side projects and coding as a hobby. One particularly bad day I decided that I would delete this blog and website in 2024. I was tired of the endless...

In 2019, I started the "tradition" of reflecting on the past year, mainly from a developer & geek point of view. I think it's a useful tool for summarizing how I've grown as a developer, and what...

I always enjoyed hearing how the owners of lost cameras were re-united with their property and media. Now it became my turn to find the owner of a lost GoPro. Here's how I did it. All the names...