Recent Blog Posts
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Victorious Festival 2021
This was my first time at Victorious Festival in Portsmouth, and after the past 18 months, it was great to be back!
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Generate Nested URL List in Jekyll
A Jekyll recursive include to output a nested site map.
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Shorter Git Remotes
Use shorter URLs for Git remotes using your SSH config file.
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Lockdown Activities
A list of my attempts to keep myself occupied and connected during lockdown.
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Detecting Character Encoding
How I make a best guess at the character encoding of a file using its contents.
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Google Home So Far
I’ve been playing with Google Home quite a bit recently, with mixed success to say the least.
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New Site (Again)
This isn’t the first time I’ve moved my personal site; the first post I still have was after I lost some old blog posts, and I moved to WordPress in 2012 to avoid supporting a separate blog and page builder. However, it was still running on my VPS, and I’ve been trying to remove all production content from there for a while.
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My Rubik’s Cube Solution
A number of people have been solving Rubik’s cubes at work recently.
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UltraViolet Universal is Terrible
My Oblivion DVD came with a digital download copy from UltraViolet. I headed over to the UltraViolet Web site to download it. My experience went something like this:
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An Analogy of DNS Resolution
Imagine that you own a store in the high street. Now, for people to find your store, they can’t just look it up, or walk down the street or anything. They have to rely on some guy (an “informer”) who stands outside their house and says, “The Widget Shop? Yes, it’s on the high street.” People will be able to get to your store, and they’ll remember what the informer told them, but only for a week or so. After that they’ll be like, “Where’s The Widget Shop again?” and have to ask the informer.