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Links for Friday July 31st 2015

Ia, Ia, Google Fthagn – Charlie’s Diary
Guesting at Mr Stross' blog, Hugh offers a superb take on the Lovecraftian nightmare of the present day.

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Alasdair

Scotch Box ♥ A Vagrant LAMP Stack That Just Works
This could be handy. I'm mostly using homestead at home, and custom work builds, but homestead has a few oddities, and it might be nice to get a completely standard version VM.

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Alasdair

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Alasdair

WordPress Optimization Bible | Prelovac.com
Contains some useful notes on hwo to optimise MySQL config for wordpress.

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Alasdair

FRANKFURTER BRETT // The kitchen workbench by Johannes Schreiter & Joseph Schreiter — Kickstarter
This looks beautiful and useful, and I would love to get one and the appropriate containers. One day…

Posted on July 13, 2015 by Alasdair

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Alasdair

Smart Toys and the Endangered Solitude of Childhood by Alana Massey | Model View Culture
I don't know whether I agree with this or not, but I think it's an interesting piece that provides food for thought.

Here’s a giant 800-track alt/indie-focused 90’s playlist in chronological order — Medium
Skews a bit differently to what I remember the nineties being, I assume because it's american-focused? But this is nonetheless pretty pleasing. Might be amusing to do a playlist for myself, one track from every year of music I own.
How to Auto Delete Old Emails In Any Gmail Label
Setting up a new Gmail-based system for work. This will (I hope) finally solve an email problem that has plagued me for 5 years now.

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Alasdair