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.

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When I released blogmore.el v4.7.0 yesterday I finished off by saying that it was my intention, at some point, to rework the frontmatter-handling code so that it did proper YAML parsing. As often happens with these sorts of things, "some...
A quick update to blogmore.el. Having recently added series support to BlogMore it made sense that I then add a quick way of adding a post to a series in the package. You can, of course, set a new one too, but the idea here (as with...
I've released BlogMore v2.42.0. This version is all about changes to the dump command. When I first added it it simply dumped all of the data available about posts within a blog, meaning it was possible to do all sorts of things with the...
When I moved to Newcastle, as a student, back in 1986, I was introduced to many new things. So many new things. Different folk. Different accents. Different backgrounds. People from the south! But, as well as all the eye-opening things...
It's probably bad news if I have a Saturday afternoon and evening spare, a fully-charged laptop and a comfy sofa. It seems that when that happens, something like BlogMore v2.41.0 happens. This is a release where I've added two features...
A quick update carrying on from this morning's release: as mentioned towards the end of the post, there was a small problem with the lint command where it would raise an error if a page or post linked to any page related to the new...
I've just released BlogMore v2.40.0. This version contains just one new feature: post series support. It's hardly a novel feature, plenty of blog engines support this sort of thing; I felt it was high time I added it to BlogMore too. The...
After adding floating and inline tables of contents in BlogMore the other day, it was time to update blogmore.el to include commands to toggle the related frontmatter. So, with the release of blogmore.el v4.6.0, two new commands are now...
BlogMore v2.39.0 has a couple of changes, one more or less cosmetic, the other a new feature that I probably should have added right near the start of the project. First, the cosmetic: in pages and posts, when you use headings (#, ##,...
BlogMore has been bumped to v2.38.0. This release includes a small cosmetic change to the stats page, and also adds a fairly big cosmetic feature with some comprehensive control. First, the change to the stats page: here I've changed the...
I've just released BlogMore v2.37.0. This is a small update that fixes a bug and also improves the way that warnings and errors are emitted. The bugfix comes from yesterday's post where I noticed that the stats page was misreporting the...
Introduction¶ Having recently added the dump command to BlogMore I've been thinking I should try and learn a little more about jq. It's one of those tools that's been on my radar for ages, which I've used on very rare occasions to get...
So today is the day, today is when GitHub Copilot swaps to its new billing system. Watching the relevant subreddit suggests this might not be popular. Some folk think it isn't the smartest move. Some don't feel too friendly towards it...
Another quick update to BlogMore: this time doing a little bit of tidying up in support of my use of it over on my photoblog. The new items I've added to the stats page are working out really well, but over on the photoblog they were...
Well, I wasn't expecting to release a new version of BlogMore quite so soon, given I made a release earlier today. But an issue came in that the Bluesky icon wasn't showing in the socials section on someone's blog, despite the fact that...
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