Rubens Blog
Rubens Blog
Ruben Hillier
Hi I am Ruben Hillier. My handle, since back in the day, is tregeagle. My pronouns are he/him.
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Some of the outlying settlements around Broken Hill, from an old map This is a rare post about the work I do for a living. Something I generally avoid on my personal blog due to obvious privacy issues and direct commandments from my...
Callers on Radio Cornwall's Talk-Back Radio would have a conniption if they saw the pasty recipe in this book. But I reckon there is nothing more Cornish than being artful, practical and thrifty. Oswald Pryor wrote a lovely little book,...
Today I am giving Emacs + Spacemacs a try. What is Spacemacs? you may ask. A good question. it could be described (innacurately) as just a text editor , others think it a way of life but for me it really is just a convoluted text editor...
Just as the English have Corfu, the Australians have Bali. I am here with my little family having a short holiday in Seminyak. It is the Indonesian Wet season which we as desert dwellers are finding very novel. A lovely painting by Kiem...
The forces of Mordor cleverly used the Palantíri before war broke out. I stumbled across @AirplaneFactsWithMax a while ago. In his reels he talks about aircraft facts and somehow ties them into Tolkiens' Lord of the Rings lore. I found...
Alan's buddhas after his house and yard were cleared. Since the fire the house has slowly been caving in on itself. Alan and his wife, who he lovingly referred to always as, "The Bride" had lived there happily for 30 years. A Demolition...
a sketch I did today of a bloke called Damian at the Broken Hill Art Exchange We got back into Broken Hill last week and are back to work tomorrow. Having a few days at home has been great. I have often noticed flyers in town for a...
Yesterday we got home from 12 days on the coast. It has been hot and dry while we were away. A dust storm had left the cracked old swimming pool with an orange tidemark. Many of our plants had turned crispy with lack of water and burning...
Getting a lukewarm, weak, milky coffee this morning. Seagull was unimpressed by the washed out surf, crap coffee and no chippies It is Boxing Day morning here in Australia. Our Boambee Bay apartment has a mild undertone of prawns and the...
There's nowt as queer as folk Back in the mid-80's when I was young and impressionable, a relic told me "gay people are unnatural and disgusting". I think the relic was concerned I might 'catch gay' from listening to David Bowie and...
I had heard of Nick Drake and today I saw that the charming Mackenzie Crook has published a book called, " If Nick Drake Came To My House ". I will have to get to the book later. This morning I listened to Nick Drakes albums, they are...
My brain is getting a good workout but I think my body needs to catch up Enough is enough. I think I have resolved the Markdown sitch and the rsync probs. It's not even close to what I want it to be - but it's a start. Enough, for now at...
So many gotchas. This is as bad as home DIY. OK, so the 'make publish' command was running with the system python when called via SSH The solution I hit on was to specify the VENV path in the Makefile, let's see if it works... Here is a...
Lazy Sunday Afternoon, a theme on this blog Sunday afternoon in Broken Hill. I am sat on the sun-faded green sofa. The dog for company watching the kids on the basketball court across the street. Having a beer. It's been an oddly...
I am publishing to my static site via my phone. To do so I am using a script which I run in Termux. I'm editing the markdown file using an app called rather unimaginativly, Markdown. I am having difficulties detecting file changes on my...