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After upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04, it didn't take me long to realise that PHP7 wasn't using any of the customisations I had in place for PHP5.6.

Since the location of php.ini has changed from /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini to /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini, it was pretty straightforward to port my changes, but how was I supposed to get my extensions like xdebug back? The internet wasn't very helpful, until, in frustration, I stumbled on a simple apt-get command:

I've been using Feedly for the past few weeks. As it turns out, reading blog posts is a whole lot easier than writing them. Before Feedly I used to open up a dozen tabs of different blogs all stacked up in my bookmarks bar. That was getting a little tedious. I did a quick search for a RSS reader and Feedly seemed to come up most often. I thought I'd give it a go.