Articles Archive from Dave 'barrd' and Guests : barrd.dev

How to disable notification sounds in your Mastodon account April 2nd 2023
• Update: Aug 23rd 2025
~5 Mins Read

Love Mastodon, loathe the annoying notification sounds? Finding where to turn them off is somewhat less than intuitive. I'll show you how.

Topics:
#IndieWeb, #Tech-Stack

Article: Technical

Create a custom font with only the glyphs you need April 1st 2023
~5 Mins Read

We shall be using the Open Source package FontForge to extract only the glyphs we need from a pre-existing font into a new custom font.

Topics:
#Tech-Stack, #WebPerf

Article: QuickNote

Apple Mac, capture window Screenshots without a shadow March 11th 2023
~5 Mins Read

How to capture a Mac window without the unwanted box shadow. Including how to do it manually and setting a preference for permanent removal.

Topic: #Tech-Stack

Article: QuickNote

Making the move from LastPass to 1Password March 7th 2023
~4 Mins Read

I'll admit the thought of moving my accrued password details from LastPass to 1Pass was a daunting one. It was worth the effort and painless.

Topic: #Tech-Stack

Article: Technical

WordPress, install 2FA plugin when using Roots Bedrock March 2nd 2023
~4 Mins Read

I'll show you in 3 steps how to setup WP 2FA plugin for a Bedrock type system including moving the private encryption key from the Database.

Topics:
#Tech-Stack, #WordPress

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