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Gousto Recipe Finder - An easy way to explore almost 6,000 meals

I am excited to launch a brand new way to explore Gousto’s incredible recipe collection - say hello to the Gousto Recipe Finder, a fast, lightweight, and beautifully simple tool for discovering your next delicious meal.

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Easy way to reset the Umbraco admin password

If you have access to both the website files and the database, this is an official - but poorly documented - way to reset the admin/master password on an Umbraco site.

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How to add Font Awesome (v5) icons using Iconic in Umbraco

The highly configurable Iconic package for Umbraco allows you to easily add icon font pickers to your document types.

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Umbraco Forms: How to get the name of a form

The name of the form isn’t available by default, so you need to use FormStorage() to access it:

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How to update ZSH and maintain local changes

tl;dr

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Vimeo embed with custom start time

Important: This post is out-of-date as Vimeo now supports this natively.

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NUX Camp 2017, Leeds

Do, Learn, Enjoy. A full day of awesome UX workshops.

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Thoughts on the BMW Z4M a few months on

I bought my BMW Z4M back in June (2016) from an independent dealer with about 52k miles on the clock.

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Taking a break from motorbikes, bought a new car

After about 18 months of limited use with the motorbike, I decided to cross something else off my ‘bucket list’. I’ve wanted a rear-wheel drive convertible for some time, and after looking at various Mazda MX5’s and Honda S2000’s, I decided to blow the budget and picked up a BMW Z4M instead.

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How to kill a process by port on OS X

While doing local development (e.g. with Node) you will often come up against EADDRINUSE, Address already in use because you try running your application again after it has crashed or errored.

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