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
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...
At the moment I'm working on a linting command for BlogMore. Having given up on Copilot/Claude for this, I've been having quite a bit of success with Gemini CLI. But while doing this, I've noticed some odd things with it. It does have...
Following on from my first post about this, I've tweaked the script I'm using to backup a repo to GitLab and Codeberg: #!/bin/sh # Check if the current directory is a Git repository if ! git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree > /dev/null...
At some point this morning I was looking for something on this blog and stumbled on a post that had a broken link. Not an external link, but an internal link. This got me thinking: perhaps I should add some sort of linting tool to...
I've just released BlogMore v2.20.0. There are five main changes in this release, and a lot of changes under the hood. First, the under-the-hood stuff: while this isn't going to make a difference to anyone using BlogMore (at least it...
I've done a small update to make-phony.el, my little Emacs package that lets me be lazy when adding .PHONY to mark a target as a phony target in a Makefile. The only change is a tweak to the regular expression, to tighten up the check...
Carrying on with the theme of being lazy while editing posts, I've released blogmore.el v4.5.0. This version adds blogmore-set-as-cover. With this, if you place point on a line that is an image and run the command, it is set as the cover...
As I've said earlier, I'm not looking to move off GitHub any time soon, but I am curious about evaluating the options. So far, while trying out Codeberg, I am finding it to be very unstable. A little earlier I was simply browsing some of...
Not that I'm avidly tracking it because I'm envious of all the pictures I'm seeing on Reddit, but... One step closer to getting my hands on my Steam Controller!
I've had a GitLab account since December 2017. This came about because of the new job I started in January 2018. They used a self-hosted internal instance of GitLab for all their code, so it made sense I get familiar with it (it wasn't...
I'm out and about, MacBook Air in tow, with a couple of hours to kill. So I dip into a coffee shop and decide to tinker with stuff. I open up Codeberg and... Okay, guess I'll be using something else at the moment then. So far I'm not...