Padraig Fahy

How to upgrade Ghost 4 on Plesk Obsidian

This is a follow-on to my previous post about installing Ghost 4 on Plesk Obsidian. As with the previous post: I am not an expert in Docker, npm, node.js or related technologies. What I am documenting here is what worked for myself. This is actually really simple, but, we

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How to install Ghost 4 on Plesk Obsidian

Ghost 4 was released earlier today which brought some nice new features, mainly a way for you to easily create a subscription for your content. Note: I am not an expert in Docker, npm, node.js or related technologies. What I am documenting here is what worked for myself. Pre-requisites

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Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker Announced

On a closed theatre set in Tokyo, FFXIV Director Naoki Yoshida, Lead Translator Michael Christopher Koji-Fox brings to us a “Final Fantasy XIV Announcement Showcase” This was supposed to take place at the Final Fantasy Fan Festivals but due to the pandemic, this didn’t happen. An

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"What Angel Wakes Me" - Masayoshi Soken

This is the 4th song from Final Fantasy XIV that I have written. The other 3 can be viewed here. At the start of Final Fantasy XIV’s 3rd expansion, ShadowBringers, it brought a truck load of new content including dungeons and trials. One of the first trials that

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Alternatives to "BigTech" services

Over the last week, some the major social media sites and services have banned the outgoing President of the United States, Donald Trump due to incitement of violence and hate speech. With people deciding to leave Twitter, Facebook and other social services, some are turning to alternative sites and services.

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Remove joe(.)ie "noscroll"

For a while now, every time that I got to a joe (.) ie article, (A site I don’t particularly like), they have a “noscroll filter” which prevents you from scrolling. This is more than likely due to the adblocking and tracking being disabled by default on

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Dress Down - Kaoru Akimoto

In March of 1986, Akimoto released her one and only album Cologne under the Victor record label but went under the radar when it was initially released. As part of the resurrection of Citypop in Japan and the discovery of the genre in the west, the single “Dress Down&

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Fortress of Lies & End of the Unknown- Keiichi Okabe

Another Nier: Automata related tune featured in the new 24-man Alliance Raid in Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers titles: “The Puppets Bunker” which was released as part of Patch 5.3: Reflections in Crystal. During the first ‘trash’ pull and the in-between areas of the raid, you

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The Reach of Darkness - Masayoshi Soken

Staying with Final Fantasy XIV and back in 2015, which was about a year and a half after the game re-launched, Square Enix launched the final major patch for the A Realm Reborn expansion titled Before The Fall. There is a very good documentary about Final Fantasy XIV and what

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Weight of the World (Prelude Version) - Keiichi Okabe

I am a huge fan of Final Fantasy XIV and it’s music. It’s main composer Masayoshi Soken has created some fantastic music in the last 6 years of the game’s existence and he knocks it out of the park each and every expansion. At

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Rick Takeuchi - Never Gonna Give You Plastic Love

In my previous post, I wrote about listening to a new genre of music, Future Funk for the last couple of years. There has been a sub-genre of Future Funk though which has had a resurgence in the last 10 years, known as City pop. City pop is a loosely

RIP Patrick Fahy. 1960 - 2019

Last Thursday, I lost my father to Stage IV Lung Cancer after a short battle. On November 28th he was diagnosed with Cancer after having a pep scan and the next day, he was in hospital in St. Luke’s hospital for radiation treatment. Unfortunately, 2 days after being

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[The Jukebox] S6E11 - Macross 82-99 - Fun Tonight

A genre that I have been listening to a lot in the last couple of years has been “Future Funk”… ahem, I mean “Ｆｕｔｕｒｅ　Ｆｕｎｋ　因為ヾ” A genre born from the illustrious vaporwave sub-genre which was brought to popularity in the early parts of 2010&

[The JukeBox] S6E10 – Joji - Slow Dancing in the Dark

George Miller made his name on the internet way before the release and popularity of Slow Dancing in the Dark. For several years, George was under the persona of Filthy Frank. About Joji… Frank had a comedy skit show named The Filthy Frank Show that was on the lines

[The JukeBox] S6E9 - WILLOW - Wait a Minute!

In my previous Jukebox, I wrote how the video-sharing service, TikTok was exposing artists and their music. Here is another song that was made popular from the app. Will Smith’s daughter Willow burst onto the music scene at just 9 years old when she released the infamous song,

Protect & secure your Facebook account! [2FA]

Previously, I wrote about how to protect your Instagram account. Here is how to do this on Facebook! Note: I would recommend doing this on the desktop version. (Right-click and click on “Open image in new tab” to see them in full resolution) Click on the arrow on

Facebook's 'Page Transparency' & How to know when to spot fake pages!

Back in April of this year, to combat ‘Fake News’, Facebook introduced a new feature on all pages called “Page Transparency”. It allows everyone who vists the page the ability to see various metadata. Facebook’s “Page Transparency” box on Padraig Fahy Support

Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood Screenshots [Album]

Since 17th June 2017, I have taken some screenshots within Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood. As FFXIV: Shadowbringers is going into Early Access tomorrow (28th June 2019), I figured I would upload the images that I have taken over the last couple of years!

[The JukeBox] S6E8 - Kero Kero Bonito - Flamingo

With the rise of the short-form video sharing service, Tik Tok, (formally known as Musical.ly), it has allowed users to lipsync themselves with audio clips such as music pieces and audio recordings of people talking. There has been also exposure of edited songs such as ‘bad guy but

So about Wrestlemania 35

The following is a cross-post from my Wrestling site, SquaredCircle.ie So about Wrestlemania 35… It was brilliant! Well, about 95% of it anyway. The only match that let it down was the Baron Corbin vs Kurt Angle match. Other than that, it was a solid way to begin

Photos from the Final Fantasy XIV: Fan Festival in Paris 2019

Back in February 2019, I attended the Final Fantasy XIV: Fan Festival 2019 in Paris, France. Here are some photos that I took from the couple of days that I attended the FFXIV event.

Voyager à Paris pour la Final Fantasy XIV: Fan Festival 2019!

(Translation: Travelling to Paris for the Final Fantasy XIV: Fan Festival 2019!) Quick note that I will be heading to Paris, France for the Final Fantasy XIV: Fan Festival 2019 on the 2nd and 3rd February. The event is being held at the: “La Grande halle de La Villette&

Backup & Update WordPress to 5.0

The following is a video guide on how you can back up your WordPress site with Blacknight and update it to 5.0 Apologies if I am stumbling over my words a little bit in this video. If you have any further queries about this, please leave a comment on

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Has it been a year already? It feels like yesterday that I wrote 26 but yet, here we are….27. The past year has been a bit of a up and down for me and realisation of who I really am. I am not going to flaunt that my

WWE Super Show-Down PPV Predictions

The following is a cross-post from my Wressling blog at https://wressling.blog Wressling.blog is a finalist in the Sports Category for the Blog Awards Ireland 2018. More info about the event will be on my personal Twitter @PadraigFahy and of course my Wrestling Twitter: @Wressling_ From Melbourne, Australia,