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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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I did some more tinkering with BlogMore yesterday, adding two new features. The first is one I've been considering adding for a wee while now. For a large part of the lifetime of this blog I used Disqus to provide a comments section on every post. It was, as you'd imagine for a small personal blog, a pretty quiet...
There is, obviously and understandably, a lot of conversation online about AI and coding and agents and all that stuff. Much of it I get, much of it I agree with, I share the vast majority of the concerns. The impact on people, the impact on society, the impact on the environment, the impact on security... there's a...
BlogMore has had a new release, bumping the version to v2.16.0. There are two main changes in this update, both coming from a single idea: internal back-links. Where it makes sense, I always try and link posts in this blog to other related posts, but I've never really had a sense of how interconnected things are....
When I'm writing documentation in Markdown I like, where possible, to mark up keys with the <kbd> tag. This was the reason for one of the updates to BlogMore: I'd not done any good default markup for <kbd> and the moment I realised, I knew I had to fix it. Now that I'm writing more on this blog, and especially about...
I've just made a small update to BlogMore. This fixes a minor cosmetic issue that's been bugging me for a while, but one that I kept forgetting to address. I noticed it again on a recent post. The issue is that if there are enough tags on a post that the collection of tags runs to a second line, there was no space...
When I'm working in Emacs I use the *scratch* buffer quite a bit. I find it especially useful if I'm working on some Emacs Lisp code, but I also find it handy as a place to drop something I want to retrieve soon, or a quick note that I want to refer back to soon; sometimes I even paste some text there and copy it...
Back in the late 1990s, like plenty of people who were very online, I was a very avid user of Usenet. There were a few groups I was very active in, even a couple that I maintained a FAQ for. Being that active and wanting to help and answer questions, I was forever posting and pasting links to various resources....
Recently I've had an odd problem with Emacs: occasionally, and somewhat randomly, as I wrote code, and only when I wrote Emacs Lisp code, and only when working in emacs-lisp-mode, I'd find that the buffer I was working in would disappear. Not just fully disappear, but more like if I'd used quit-window. Worse still,...
Another wee update to blogmore.el, with a bump to v4.2. After adding the webp helper command the other day, something about it has been bothering me. While the command is there as a simple helper if I want to change an individual image to webp -- so it's not intended to be a general-purpose tool -- it felt "wrong"...
I'm sat on the sofa, MacBook perched on my lap, going over some photos and generally feeling pretty tired in a really satisfying way. We've just had a brief weekend run to one of my favourite places on the planet, back in the county I was born in: Whitby. The plan for the weekend, as it always is when we do a run...
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