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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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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 2>&1; then echo "Error: This directory is not a Git repository." exit 1 fi...
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 BlogMore? I figured this should be doable using much of the existing code: pretty much...
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 shouldn't make a difference -- if it does that's a bug that deserves reporting),...
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 for a target that can be marked.
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 for the post. Sure, it's not like it's hard to copy, move, insert a new line,...
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 the repositories I've been adding and got very slow load times, and then a 500....
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 hard; especially back in 2017 it was near enough a clone of GitHub in terms of...
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 having a lot of success. PS: That . after the : though...
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 another post and, once selected, it sets this post's category and tags to be the...
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