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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've just bumped Rogallo to v3.2.0. This release has one small new feature and one wee bug fix. The new feature is something I found myself wanting a short while ago. I was copying some URIs and then turning them back into Gemtext links in another document; after doing that a few times, I realised that it might be...
A couple of days ago, thanks to some free time on a Sunday afternoon, I got round to setting up my newly acquired Steam Machine. While I don't have a lot to say about it, I thought I'd note here that the event happened and jot some notes about how it went. On unboxing, two things struck me: just how small it is,...
Introduction An occasional collection of things I've recently found on the Internet and added to my bookmarks. DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought While a year old at the point of saving this, it's still a pretty good collection of details of problematic things related to DHH. It's only got worse since. Awesome Steam...
Some might remember that, earlier this year, Valve made the Steam Machine available for purchase. I'd had my eye on one since they were first announced; I had it on my wishlist. Having had a lot of fun with my Steam Deck, I was sure I'd appreciate what was looking to be its bigger sibling (in terms of size and...
Rogallo v3.1.0 is now available. This release is in response to a recent user request. Right from the start of the development of Rogallo, I ensured that any MIME types that the application couldn't handle were correctly handed off to the operating system, to allow it to work out what to do. While it is possible for...
It's been a while since I last published an update to Rogallo. In part this is because I've had other distractions, but also in part because I've not had a huge need to add any new features of late. For the most part I feel Rogallo is "done"1. I haven't, however, been doing nothing with the code. On and off, over...
I realise I've been a bit quiet on the blog front for a few days, in part because I've also been a bit quiet on the coding front too. Looking at my GitHub contribution graph, the previous three days where I didn't commit anything are the longest run of no-commit days I've had in about 10 months. There are a couple...
Yesterday evening I finally had the chance to unbox my Steam Frame and have an initial play with it. Here are my impressions of it after playing for a couple of hours. Note that this isn't intended to be any kind of review, just some jotted notes about things I noticed and concluded. The order might appear a little...
Introduction An occasional collection of things I've recently found on the Internet and added to my bookmarks. Weird little guys of FOSS As the name says: a collection of "weird little guys" of the FOSS and adjacent worlds. Massively subjective, of course, but I don't think I've seen one (that I know of) that I...
I think, in part, I regret upgrading any of my Apple devices to the 27 line of operating systems. While my experience as a whole has been pretty favourable, the one thing I was looking forward to is not just disappointing, but is a huge step backwards. I don't use Siri for many things, but I do use it a lot for a...
Actually a little sooner than I was expecting -- look what turned up today! When I saw this morning, based on tracking, that it had made it to the national distribution centre down in England, I was expecting it to head up this way today and perhaps be out for delivery tomorrow. But, no, a little later in the...
I've just made a small update to GopherMap. While doing some work on Rogallo I noticed that, somehow, I wasn't showing a type "badge" for PNG files (p). I spent a moment or two trying to figure out what was wrong with the code in Rogallo, and then realised that I'd managed to miss out both PNG and RTF files in...
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