Hi there, I am Patrick ... known as David's Neighbour, a digital native based on Koh Samui, Thailand. Recent blog posts [2024-06-17] Music to Program to (Part 9) A very nice song by Glass Animals from before they were TikTok famous. [2024-05-26] Kurzschnitte II - Number 4 The fourth installment of Kurzschnitte II, where I'm sharing a collection of articles and tutorials that caught my attention in the past few weeks. [2024-05-17] Fixing installation and plugin errors in LocalWP Guide to installing LocalWP on Ubuntu 24.04, resolving issues with missing packages, PHP versions, and add-ons. Step-by-step solutions for smooth WordPress development. [2024-05-12] The official Netflix trailer for Exploding Kittens (the series) is out In the Exploding Kittens series, God (Tom Ellis) is fired, reborn as a cat, and faces off against Devilcat (Sasheer Zamata) on Earth while distracted by laser pointers and pigeons. [2024-05-12] A Masterpiece about the Meisterstuck Wes Anderson's "100 Years of Meisterstuck" blends his signature aesthetic with humor to present Montblanc's iconic pen, showcasing its timeless legacy and craftsmanship. [2024-05-05] Recovering a missing Keybase git repository The fight with Keybase continues. Today we are debugging an empty repo after checking out. [2024-05-03] New features in VSCode v1.89 Three VSCode updates this month, that I find useful. VSCode keeps adding useful features every month. [2024-04-29] Keybase vs. Ubuntu 24.04 Trying to install Keybase "the normal way" on Ubuntu leads to errors about missing packages. Trying then to run apt install -f to fix the issues will lead to Keybase being uninstalled again. In olde... [2024-04-28] Cloning All My Repos on a New Ubuntu Installation A script to automatically clone all my GitHub repos to a local Ubuntu system using GitHub's REST API. [2024-04-26] HowTo fix Google Chrome not starting after renaming the host in Ubuntu 24.04 My recent days were marked by the biennial (as in every two years) prematurely (I'll explain that in a later post) installation of a new Ubuntu LTS ( long term support ) version. BooKa I am working on a project called BooKa. It's what the Germans call "eierlegende Wollmilchsau" (egg laying wool milk pork), basically a tool or service that does everything for a certain part of a business. Right now we support small and medium businesses on Koh Samui to do what they do. Be it Hotels, Resorts, Tour companies, Cafes, Restaurants, Shops. We offer online available booking systems, reporting and management of bookings and sales reporting systems. The software is proprietary at the moment, but we expect it to be open source in a while.
