Category: Tech
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Second post on WordPress developer blog
A couple of weeks ago I had my second post published on the new beta WordPress Developer Blog! The post is about how to split and merge blocks. The useful purpose of this is to do something like inserting another list item when editing a list and hitting enter, or backspacing a list item into…
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Xmas projects
Amidst the festivities, games and socialising that the christmas season brings, I had four projects lined up to take care of during the christmas break. I’ve completed two, with a third nearly done and some progress made on the fourth. The first project was the one I completed last. I’ve set up the vesa mount…
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Migrating from Roam to Obsidian
This is my opinionated guide on migrating note-taking apps from Roam Research to Obsidian.md. I go through this in three parts, the initial export and import, cleansing the data and some tweaks to make Obsidian a little bit more Roam-like. I’d also highly recommend reading Denise Todd spelling out some different options in her thorough…
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Published on WordPress developer news
This week I had my first post published on the new beta WordPress Developer Blog! The post is about managing the state of your Gutenberg block/component or other wordpress/data based React application. Its aimed at people who have a little familiarity with React and are reading WordPress Javascript code. The post started from some notes…
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RIP Strats
Strats was a quick project I’d built upon the Strava API. I used Strats after nearly every single bike ride as a way of gauging my progress and seeing who else had tried some of the same hills and how they’d got on with them. Strats was essentially a way of displaying the friend leaderboard for all of…
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The Soul of a New Machine
I’ve just finished reading The Soul of a New Machine by Tracey Kidder. It’s a brilliantly written non-fiction account of creating a new computer in the late 70s under massive time constraints. It describes the characters involved, their leadership styles and creative processes, and has a healthy but very readable dose of technology. Lots of it really…
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Raspberry pi audio
If you are trying to play audio on your raspberry pi over hdmi and it is not working then you need to ensure that the raspberry pi is driving your tv or monitor in hdmi mode and not dvi mode. To do this type /opt/vc/bin/tvservice -s If it’s running HDMI it will print something like…
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Reserving IP addresses with buggy Netgear firmware
My netgear DGN2000 router has an annoying bug where the IP address reservation refuses to reserve addresses for devices with MAC addresses that don’t begin with 00. This happens when you: Log onto your router at http://192.168.0.1/ Click LAN Setup Click Add at the bottom of the central frame Click on the device you wish to…
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Kindle statistics
Mildly frustrated to learn that I’m generating all kinds of interesting data while using my kindle, such as how long I’ve spent reading a book, how many times I’ve read the book and so forth and yet none of it is (easily) directly accessible to me, or exposed by Amazon. It is possible to get…
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Blogging with Octopress
I’ve switched to using Octopress rather than WordPress to run my blog. I have ran wordpress since 2003, before it was forked from B2 cafelog, I’ve decided to switch as I’m currently patching security problems in my blog software more often than writing blog posts, this is probably more indicative of my blog tempo rather than anything…
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