Don't join Bluesky
19 November, 2024 - 30 words
Leaving Twitter so you can post elsewhere? Off to write toots on Mastodon? Making long posts on Bluesky?
Have some ambition.
Books of September
11 November, 2024 - 96 words
I was tired in September, so I read the 7 books of the Murderbot Diaries. Again. There's something about a these which are absolute comfort reading for me.
After enjoying Hardwired earlier in the year I picked up
small fun things
09 November, 2024 - 73 words
I liked these, you might too:
Choo-Choo World - A Web Based Wooden Train Track Builder
Googly - A chrome extension for adding Googly eyes to any webpage.
Planet Painter - A tool that allows you to create and edit nice ...
Displaying Strava data on my website with Zola
19 October, 2024 - 304 words
I have a new page on my website to show me how much distance I've tracked with Strava this year.
It's powered by this JSON file and this Zola template, which renders the ...
Copy text from a protected Google doc
13 October, 2024 - 186 words
In Google Docs you can "protect" a doc so that it can't be printed, shared or have text copied.
For everyone except the author this is quite annoying, and so this is one way you can copy text out of a protected document if you are sent one.
These instructions are for a desktop version of Chrome. Firefox will also work, but I haven't tried any of this on mobile.
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Books of August
13 October, 2024 - 288 words
I started but did not finish a friend's copy of Thomas Paine's Rights of Man (1791) which frankly made me far too angry.
On a very different track, I did finish
Books of July 2024
24 September, 2024 - 534 words
The Locked Room, by Paul Auster is the final book in The New York Trilogy and demonstrates that the trilogy really is a single book divided into three large sections. I thought this was substantially better than the other two, being able to build on the foundations they laid, and I had to take a two-week brea...
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