It’s been a whole number of years since I owned an Atari ST. Well over 20. In my youth I (and by “I” I mean “my family”) had two, both of which packed in after some time, the last kicking the bucket in the mid to late 90s. Ever since then I’ve longed to have another, even as I moved briefly to the Amiga before joining the PC train in 1999. Every now and then I’d look on eBay or Gumtree to see what was available. For some reason I was reluctant to splash out on one, until now.

Hello! I’ve started a new blog. For my first post I’m going to share a Git configuration trick that I often use to work around this dang ol’ error message when trying to push a locally created branch to a remote repository: