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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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 is shipping from there too, so I'm going to guess about the same amount of...
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 nervous. While it wouldn't be a destructive approach (the whole blog is under...
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 my preferred user name was actually available, which made me more inclined to...
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 (and still own) a Steam Link and it served me well for a while, 4 homes ago. The...
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 Markdown-stripper it was using. The approach it landed on made sense to me,...
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 that I'd probably have gone with something that was a single orchestration...
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. When I first dropped the controller in my basket it was showing that shipping...
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 suggestions the agents make, but it looks like a bunch of work and I can't be faffed with...
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 no-brainer. Buying one is going just as well as you'd imagine. Added to the basket at...
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 there. I've just released BlogMore v2.19.0, which has a couple of fixes, and also...
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