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
The job is finally done. After considering moving all the images in the blog over to WebP, and then finally getting the migration under way, I'm all done. As I mentioned before: I've done this by hand, one post at a time, also adding...
It's now well over a year since I released Braindrop and it's in constant use by me. I continue to find raindrop.io a really useful resource, and more often than not manage, edit, tag, and review what I save there with Braindrop,...
For the past few years, pretty much every evening for a couple of hours, I would stream while playing games on my PS5. Before that I went through a period of streaming while playing games on my VR gaming setup, often mucking about in...
I wasn't quite planning on making a new release of BlogMore so soon after the previous version, but I had a couple of ideas that I wanted to add, and then also got a nifty request too; so here we are: we have v2.23.0. The first couple of...
As I've mentioned a few times recently, I'm using Google's Gemini CLI more at the moment; in part because I have a Gemini Pro account so it makes sense to use it, but also in anticipation of dropping anything to do with Copilot. While...
Another evening, and another period of Gemini CLI getting stuck thinking. So this time I thought I'd try something: cancel it while it was thinking and change the model. I was working on something new for BlogMore and, sure enough, after...
After starting to make use of the GitLab/Codeberg sync approach for various repositories, I found that my muscle memory in Magit was getting the better of me and, on occasion, I'd push a new branch to backups when I wanted origin. I...
As mentioned a couple of days ago, I've been toying with finding areas of improvement in respect to the performance of BlogMore. Until now, for good reasons, I've not really paid any attention to how fast (or slow) BlogMore is when it...
Well, it's here: GitHub's tool to let you see how much better off you're going to be under the new Copilot billing system that comes in next month. It's... something. But let's set the background first. I'm here (in Copilot usage space)...
Having had Copilot crash out the other day, while working on the linter for BlogMore, I decided to lean into Gemini CLI a little more and see how that got on. When I first tried it out, a week back, I found it worked fairly well but...
It has arrived! I feel that Valve have upped their presentation game a little. Even the box feels quality; I don't remember my Steam Deck turning up in such a nice box. I might give it a go tonight. I probably should. On the other hand...
As mentioned recently, Andy did a nifty bit of testing of BlogMore to measure the performance hit of each of the optional generation features. Performance is something I haven't really spent much time thinking about; I cared more about...
Looks like my Steam Controller is close! Very close! Good job I updated the OS on the Steam Deck yesterday. It's almost like I anticipated this.
The new linting tool I've added to BlogMore has paid off already. While it is the case that it helped me find a couple of broken links and one or two other things to tidy, as I was working on the feature; by the time I released it, my...
After noticing a broken link in a post yesterday, I got to thinking that it would be useful to add a linter to BlogMore. So I've released v2.21.0 which adds linting support. A number of things are checked and the results are broken down...