davep
davep
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.
Latest Posts
A quick little update to blogmore.el to fix a couple of issues introduced by the new YAML-parsing approach to reading frontmatter; both pretty much stemming from how falsy values are handled. Simply put, both boolean false values, and...
I had quite the adventure with PyPI this morning, and I don't think it's over yet. It started out with the release of BlogMore v2.43.0. I did my usual thing of doing a test release to the test version of PyPI, and then did a production...
After recently adding Mermaid and maths support to BlogMore, I got to thinking that it now has connections with a handful of third-party resources. While almost all of them are optional (only FontAwesome comes close to being a hard...
When I released blogmore.el v4.7.0 yesterday I finished off by saying that it was my intention, at some point, to rework the frontmatter-handling code so that it did proper YAML parsing. As often happens with these sorts of things, "some...
A quick update to blogmore.el. Having recently added series support to BlogMore it made sense that I then add a quick way of adding a post to a series in the package. You can, of course, set a new one too, but the idea here (as with...
I've released BlogMore v2.42.0. This version is all about changes to the dump command. When I first added it it simply dumped all of the data available about posts within a blog, meaning it was possible to do all sorts of things with the...
When I moved to Newcastle, as a student, back in 1986, I was introduced to many new things. So many new things. Different folk. Different accents. Different backgrounds. People from the south! But, as well as all the eye-opening things...
It's probably bad news if I have a Saturday afternoon and evening spare, a fully-charged laptop and a comfy sofa. It seems that when that happens, something like BlogMore v2.41.0 happens. This is a release where I've added two features...
A quick update carrying on from this morning's release: as mentioned towards the end of the post, there was a small problem with the lint command where it would raise an error if a page or post linked to any page related to the new...
I've just released BlogMore v2.40.0. This version contains just one new feature: post series support. It's hardly a novel feature, plenty of blog engines support this sort of thing; I felt it was high time I added it to BlogMore too. The...
After adding floating and inline tables of contents in BlogMore the other day, it was time to update blogmore.el to include commands to toggle the related frontmatter. So, with the release of blogmore.el v4.6.0, two new commands are now...
BlogMore v2.39.0 has a couple of changes, one more or less cosmetic, the other a new feature that I probably should have added right near the start of the project. First, the cosmetic: in pages and posts, when you use headings (#, ##,...
BlogMore has been bumped to v2.38.0. This release includes a small cosmetic change to the stats page, and also adds a fairly big cosmetic feature with some comprehensive control. First, the change to the stats page: here I've changed the...
I've just released BlogMore v2.37.0. This is a small update that fixes a bug and also improves the way that warnings and errors are emitted. The bugfix comes from yesterday's post where I noticed that the stats page was misreporting the...
Introduction¶ Having recently added the dump command to BlogMore I've been thinking I should try and learn a little more about jq. It's one of those tools that's been on my radar for ages, which I've used on very rare occasions to get...