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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

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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

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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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Divoom API playtime

11 September, 2024 - 688 words
I have a Divoom Timebox Evo - it is 16x16 (10cm x 10cm) LED display which also doubles as a portable bluetooth speaker. It's a lovely device with decent sound and bright LEDs. By default it will show you animations that people have posted online using the Divoom app, or you can draw your own, as well as displaying the weather, time and more.

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