davep
davep
Dave Pearson
My personal blog which covers a handful of main topics and wanders through all sorts of subjects. Mostly you'll see me writing about coding and Python and a bit of Emacs and so on; but sometimes there will be more random thoughts and personal stuff.
Latest Posts
Since kicking off the work on BlogMore and blogmore.el, I've absolutely found that I've reduced the friction involved when it comes to writing a quick (or not so quick) blog post. I've also found that I want to go back and tidy up lots...
I've released v2.33.0 of BlogMore, which extends the stats page some more, and also adds a tool so a user can do all sorts of fun things with the raw data of their posts. The addition to the stats page is a list of years along with the...
Now that BlogMore is so obviously feature-complete and there's nothing else I could possibly need to add to it... here's v2.32.0 with a quick new feature. The work to add the relatedness of posts got me wondering about other things that...
A quick update to BlogMore, with a small accessibility improvement, and also a whole new set of data for the graph. The accessibility update follows on from a change published yesterday. In that release I did a little bit of work to...
BlogMore has been bumped to v2.30.0. This release is pretty heavy on new features, but it does also include one small accessibility tweak too. While looking through some of the neutral feedback from PageSpeed Insights I noticed it...
Despite the fact that I am not, in any way, superstitious, I kind of have this rule: don't make definitive statements about the absolute happening of an event until it happens; it kind of feels like you're tempting the universe to prank...
While it did appear something had changed for the better yesterday evening, things looked different again this morning. Before getting to work, I did a couple of quick changes to BlogMore; this time Antigravity seemed to use up a bit...
Something has changed with Antigravity since I first tried it out the other day. While looking at adding a related posts feature to BlogMore, I thought I'd give it another try out (having gone back to using Gemini CLI while I still...
I wasn't made for this. I didn't move to Scotland for this. I don't like this. Yes, I know it's warmer elsewhere. Yes, I know it's warmer elsewhere in the UK, today. Whatever. This is still not fun and I still don't like it.
A quick update to BlogMore that stems from a couple of accessibility concerns raised when using PageSpeed Insights. While the accessibility score on pages generated by BlogMore is pretty excellent (96/100), a couple of things were...
I've just released BlogMore v2.28.0. This release has some small improvements to the JSON-LD structured data that was added in the last release, and also adds support for actually showing author names on posts. On the latter point first:...
While I know the subject really fires some people, ad blockers are something I've never really paid too much attention to. Back in the early days of the web, the really early days, I used to run with full-on JavaScript blocking1. The web...
Much like the last two releases of BlogMore, this is another that has ended up being on the theme of improving or adorning the generated HTML. One change in the last release resulted in another HTML validator warning, and so that's...
The previous release of BlogMore had some work that improved the HTML, ensuring that the HTML validator was happy with the generated code. Yesterday evening I ran it over more of the pages, and found a couple more things that made sense...
As I've written about a few times in the last week or so, the journey with AI-based coding tools has hit an interesting time when it comes to prices, quotas, usage, availability and all that. Having come into all of this via a place...