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
I've released an update to blogmore.el, my Emacs package that helps me out when writing this blog. I've added two commands to this version which help me be lazier than ever. The first is blogmore-become-like. When run, this prompts for...
Well, that was pretty quick. This morning it was in the packaged state and, checking just now: When I've bought hardware from Valve before, I'm pretty sure it's taken around 3 days to get here, coming from the Netherlands. I can see this...
I've finally made a proper start on the planned migration to webp for images. I did consider writing a tool that would go through and migrate the files, and update the Markdown, all in one go, but something about that makes me kind of...
Following on from what I wrote about GitHub recently, I thought I'd check out Codeberg. While I'm aware of it (it is supported by Hike after all), I've never actually used it and have never had an account there. I was delighted to find...
After a day of no movement, I wake up to see this: One step closer to getting my hands on it! I'm oddly kind of invested in getting my hands on this. A regret I have is that I never bought one of the originals. Back in the day I did buy...
It's a small thing, but here's round 2 of me vs Claude. This time I'm directing the agent to clean up the code that does word counts, getting it to use the Markdown to plain text code that exists in BlogMore, rather than the regex-based...
Given the concerns I wrote about yesterday, in regard to the core generation code in BlogMore, I've been thinking some more about how I would probably have the code look. First thing this morning, over breakfast and coffee, I concluded...
After dropping one in my basket at 18:00 (UTC+01:00) yesterday, it took around 70 minutes of trying and trying and trying to get to a point where I could pay. It paid off. Now I just need to wait however long it takes for it to turn up....
The tidying of the BlogMore source carries on; sometimes by hand, but also sometimes by using either Copilot/Claude or Gemini to decide how best to nudge the codebase in a desired direction. When I do the latter, if I like the...
So the new Steam Controller is released. I kind of fancy one. I love my Steam Deck, so a controller with similar abilities, which I can use with the 'Deck or with my Windows PC (and perhaps my future Steam Machine?), is a bit of a...
While I'm messing around in the background of BlogMore, looking at the state of the code and looking for opportunities to clean it up, either by hand, or by pitting agent against agent, I've also been doing the odd little fix here and...
One of the things I noticed when I started on the BlogMore experiment was the fact that Copilot/Claude seemed to love to write monolithic code. Pretty early on most of the code was landing in just a couple of files. Once I noticed this I...
After writing the earlier post I had to AFK to attend to normal life things. When I finally sat back at my keyboard, I decided to write my own take on minified_filename. To recap, this is what Copilot/Claude came up with first: def...
As mentioned a couple of times in the last couple of days, aside from one particular issue I found and fixed, I'm in more of a "let's review some of the code and tidy things up" phase with the codebase. This process is at times me...
In a post yesterday I finished off by saying: At least I have, as of the time of writing, 1,380 tests to check that I've not broken anything when I do hand-clean the code. But, hmm, there's a question: can I actually trust those tests?...