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Configure Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr on QNAP with Docker

How to configure Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr with Transmission on a QNAP within Docker. As well support for FlareSolverr to bypass Cloudfla...

docker qnap sonarr radarr prowlarr

16 Jun 2026

Hangfire in ASP.NET Core 8 and 10 with LiteDB

How to configure Hangfire with ASP.NET Core 8 or 10 with a persistant LiteDB database and Authorization with a fully working example Repo...

aspcore dotnet c# net8 net10 sqlite litedb

15 Jun 2026

OUS - Self Hosted App Template

I've been using Trakt for as long as I remember to track all of the TV and Movies that I watch. In late 2025 they released v3 of their w...

aspcore dotnet docker c# selfhosted

05 Apr 2026

MyFicDB - Selfhosted AO3 Alternative

MyFicDB is a self hosted alternative to ArchiveOfOurOwn (AO3) that runs via docker with a range of features

aspcore dotnet docker c# selfhosted

28 Feb 2026

2025: Year in Review

Happy 5th year of making one of these posts. It's become a bit of a weird tradition of just writing about my life, I recently went throug...

yir 2025

01 Jan 2026

How to View Saved WiFi Passwords on Windows 10 and Windows 11

How to view Wi-Fi passwords via different approaches on Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11 for networks that you have previously connected. Various...

windows wifi passwords

09 Nov 2025

Jekyll Editor for Windows

I use Jekyll for my Website on GitHub Pages. It is super easy to use and allows me to write posts anywhere in the world. I use Windows ...

28 Oct 2025

How to Build a DIY Sawhorse (Step-by-Step)

I recently started doing a lot of woodworking to try and get away from the computer a bit more. One of the things I needed was a better ...

28 Oct 2025

Evolution

I started this blog half a decade ago on a custom-made CMS before shifting over to GitHub Pages and Jekyll. There has been a pretty consi...

16 Oct 2025

2024: Year in Review

What a fucking year 2024 has been. Last year I said "It's 2024 and the hell hole of a year is hopefully behind us" and boy could I not h...

01 Jan 2025

AssetTrakr

It currently lets you add Assets, Licenses, Contracts (Maintenance Agreements, Warranty Agreements) and link contracts to Assets or Licen...

06 May 2024

2023: Year in Review

Happy New Year. It's 2024 and the hell hole of a year is hopefully behind us, although if I'm being honest I suspect it's going to get w...

01 Jan 2024

Change THTC Meter on SSE/OVO

I managed to get SSE/OVO to change me from our old two-meter THTC system to a single Eco7 Day/Night meter after years of trying. I had to...

electricity,sse,ovo

24 May 2023

Learning .NET MAUI

Year 3 of making one of these posts, accidentally forced myself into a tradition of writing about my life over the last year without writ...

07 Mar 2023

2022: Year in Review

Year 3 of making one of these posts, accidentally forced myself into a tradition of writing about my life over the last year without writ...

01 Jan 2023

.NET Core Cross-platform Scanner

I've been wanting to move over to .NET Core for quite a while now, but up until recently I've not really had much reason to do so. I sta...

09 Jul 2022

Snow.NET

Snow License Manager has a pretty useful API for pulling information out of the system and doing things with it, but unfortunately the do...

15 May 2022

Custom Reports in Snow License Manager

Snow License Manager is great. It has an insane amount of Inventory data from desktops, servers and mobile devices to SaaS providers lik...

sql

19 Apr 2022

snwapi - Version 2.0

Two years ago I released snwapi. snwapi lets you grab the latest release for Snow Software Products which you could use in a custom tool...

08 Apr 2022

Snow Log Collector - Devlog #3

I bought a new computer at the end of 2021 as my daily driver until then was a MacBook Air from 2018. Although it was good enough for wh...

chsarp

26 Mar 2022

Handbrake Discord & Telegram Notifications

I bought a new computer at the end of 2021 as my daily driver until then was a MacBook Air from 2018. Although it was good enough for wh...

powershell

24 Mar 2022

Configure MediaWiki on QNAP with Docker

I recently bought a new QNAP to replace my old one as it 8 years old and was starting to struggle with basic tasks. It also never had an...

03 Feb 2022

v2.0: Site Redesign

I ended up removing this from my 2021 Year in Review because I was undecided at the time if I was going to do it. Originally when I crea...

meta

23 Jan 2022

2021: Year in Review

Well, goodbye 2020 ver. 2.0. It's been interesting to say the least. I've been pretty AFK on all things internet the last few months and...

01 Jan 2022

Upgrade HP Proliant Microserver Bios

I recently bought, and by recently I mean 2019, a HP ProLiant Microserver off an old work colleague. I have a QNAP NAS that I use for al...

03 Sep 2021

Unity New Input System Tutorial

I recently started getting into Game Development again, starting and then cancelling my first planned 2D Game The Lonely Helmet. During ...

14 Jul 2021

Round Year Fun

There is a painfully common occurrence happening on Twitter recently with these 'fun' game websites that you link to your Twitter account...

meta

07 Jun 2021

Snow Agreement Period Migrator

I'm hoping this is the last migrator tool I need to create, but I very much doubt that is going to be the case since Snow doesn't have an...

csharp

02 Jun 2021

Snow Password Hasher

I was recently talking to a previous colleague about the pain that is involved in adding System Users into Snow License Manager in batch....

csharp

28 May 2021

Easy Xbox Gamerscore #2

2021 seems to be the year where I'm getting back into gaming again, or, at least it feels like it. That could be because I've started tr...

xbox

14 May 2021

UptimeRobot Alternative

Recently UptimeRobot modified their Free Tier to no longer include custom domains. From the get go this sounds like a load of baloney t...

meta

07 May 2021

Snow Document Migrator

A few weeks ago, I posted about my Snow System User Migrator that allows me to migrate users from one Snow License Manager platform to an...

csharp

29 Apr 2021

Snow System User Migrator

If you've ever had to migrate a customer from one platform to another, or from on-premise to hosted, you'll know from a technical side th...

csharp

14 Apr 2021

Future Development Plans

I've found myself the last few months getting very bored of the projects I'm working on, a lot of them are utilities for Snow Software pr...

Development Csharp Unity Unity2D

11 Apr 2021

Multiple Users, One Spotify Account

I recently found that my Spotify account wasn’t uploading my plays to last.fm and for a while I thought this was an issue with the last.f...

meta

23 Mar 2021

Easy Xbox Gamerscore #1

I've spent a lot of 2021 playing games so far, some good some horrendous, but one thing they all have in common is a crap load of gamersc...

xbox

14 Feb 2021

I made a game tracker

I love statistics man, anyone that knows me how obsessive I can be with tracking what I’m doing, from Movies and TV Shows, to Music and n...

php

12 Feb 2021

Jekyll Post to Twitter

I love automation, whether it's to automate something to save time or automate something just because I'm lazy, automation makes everythi...

jekyll

07 Feb 2021

Snow Platform Monitor Released

Open Source Platform Monitor for Snow Software products released under the MIT license, free to use, free to modify - Available now!

csharp

15 Jan 2021

2020: Year in Review

2020 has been, without a doubt, an absolute joke of a year. We had the Black Summer in Australia, the U.S Senate Acquited Donald J. Trump...

meta

01 Jan 2021

Snow Platform Monitor - Devlog #2

Snow Platform Monitor, receive daily health statistics regarding your Snow Software environment

devlog

22 Dec 2020

Snow Platform Monitor - Devlog #1

Snow Platform Monitor, receive daily health statistics regarding your Snow Software environment

devlog

29 Nov 2020

Open URL with Clipboard Contents in Automater

I've recently moved to using my MacBook a lot more for a lot of my work, from a business perspective I've always been a Windows users so ...

apple

15 Oct 2020

snwAPI Changes

I recently released an API for the current product versions of Snow Software products. This information is publicly available from Snow S...

meta

13 Oct 2020

Snow Update Checker - Devlog #2

Snow Update Checker, check the update availability for multiple License Manager and Snow Inventory platforms at once.

devlog

20 Sep 2020

Snow Update Checker - Devlog #1

Snow Update Checker, check the update availability for multiple License Manager and Snow Inventory platforms at once.

devlog

09 Sep 2020

Snow Inventory Password Reset

Snow Inventory is sick, the Snow Inventory Agent is sick. The data is just, sick. It gives you a massive view of what's out in your est...

csharp

13 Aug 2020

Mars Perseverance Rover

The Nasa Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission is on it's way to the Red Planet, and my name is on it!

meta

30 Jul 2020

Snow Log Collector - Devlog #2

It's only been two days since Devlog 1 and I've changed a bunch of stuff in Snow Log Collector already, as well as added in a few feature...

devlog

23 Jul 2020

Snow Log Collector - Devlog #1

I hate collecting logs, it's boring and takes up valuable time I could be spent doing something else. A lot of enterprise applications t...

devlog

21 Jul 2020

Snow Recognition Database 2.0

Snow Recognition Database is an open-source utility that allows you to access the Unassigned and Recognized Applications from Snow Licens...

csharp

17 Jul 2020

Where is SAMPing?

I started SAMPing in February 2017 as a tool to assist my team at Getronics, I made this in my free time so when I left Getronics I had t...

vb-net

16 Jul 2020

A Comment System!

I've never actually had a comment system on any of my websites. Not because I haven't wnated to, but because I never really found one th...

javascript

14 Jul 2020

New Month, New Website

The real question here is, is anyone really surprised? At the start of the year I made my own custom CMS, it's still available online in ...

meta

12 Jul 2020

Restore SQL Database on Schedule

I use a lot of demo and test environments in work and at home and frequently fill them to the brim with useless data that is only used fo...

sql

27 May 2020

Visual Studio Code Setup

I've been using VS Code since 2016 after using Atomfor a little while after moving to MacOS full time in 2014 (rip my Notepad++ customisa...

meta

06 May 2020

Get live log updates in PowerShell

I frequently find myself needing to review log files on a 'live' basis, and although there are applications out there that do this I work...

powershell

04 May 2020

Get your Machine Type via VBScript

I found myself a few weeks ago needing to find a way to get the type of machine for a program I am building, there's a few way to do this...

vbscript

22 Apr 2020

Trakt Q1 Review

So, 2020 has been interesting this year. We've had the

meta

09 Apr 2020

Decrypting stored procedures in SQL Server

I came across an issue recently where I lost the code to a stored procedure created a few years ago, usually our stored procedures are no...

sql

06 Apr 2020

Get Scrobble Information from Trakt.TV

Trakt is a platform that keeps track of TV Shows and Movies that you watch. You can integrate it into a bunch of different Media Center ...

php

24 Feb 2020

Hello World

meta

20 Feb 2020