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.
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Despite the fact that I am not, in any way, superstitious, I kind of have this rule: don't make definitive statements about the absolute happening of an event until it happens; it kind of feels like you're tempting the universe to prank...
While it did appear something had changed for the better yesterday evening, things looked different again this morning. Before getting to work, I did a couple of quick changes to BlogMore; this time Antigravity seemed to use up a bit...
Something has changed with Antigravity since I first tried it out the other day. While looking at adding a related posts feature to BlogMore, I thought I'd give it another try out (having gone back to using Gemini CLI while I still...
I wasn't made for this. I didn't move to Scotland for this. I don't like this. Yes, I know it's warmer elsewhere. Yes, I know it's warmer elsewhere in the UK, today. Whatever. This is still not fun and I still don't like it.
A quick update to BlogMore that stems from a couple of accessibility concerns raised when using PageSpeed Insights. While the accessibility score on pages generated by BlogMore is pretty excellent (96/100), a couple of things were...
I've just released BlogMore v2.28.0. This release has some small improvements to the JSON-LD structured data that was added in the last release, and also adds support for actually showing author names on posts. On the latter point first:...
While I know the subject really fires some people, ad blockers are something I've never really paid too much attention to. Back in the early days of the web, the really early days, I used to run with full-on JavaScript blocking1. The web...
Much like the last two releases of BlogMore, this is another that has ended up being on the theme of improving or adorning the generated HTML. One change in the last release resulted in another HTML validator warning, and so that's...
The previous release of BlogMore had some work that improved the HTML, ensuring that the HTML validator was happy with the generated code. Yesterday evening I ran it over more of the pages, and found a couple more things that made sense...
As I've written about a few times in the last week or so, the journey with AI-based coding tools has hit an interesting time when it comes to prices, quotas, usage, availability and all that. Having come into all of this via a place...
Now that we're near the end of the free or cheap GitHub Copilot party, I thought it might be interesting to look at how much BlogMore has "cost" me to build, and what it would have cost under the proposed new pricing structure that is...
The recent changes to pricing and usage, in relation to AI, aren't just about agents and coding. Not only have I seen GitHub Copilot and Gemini CLI hugely restrict their offerings for the same price, it's also come to at least one...
Part of my morning routine, when I sit down at my desk, is to run updates. This ritual updates, amongst other things, anything I've installed via Homebrew. As this ran I noticed antigravity-cli turn up as an addition to the index of...
Following on from the previous release, which was all about trying to get a big PageSpeed Insights win through image optimisation, I'm chasing some more validation from that site by trying to squeeze just a little more performance out of...
Well, what a surprise, nobody could have seen it coming: it does seem to be bait and switch season in LLM/agent land. As I mentioned earlier today, when I ran up Gemini CLI to have it work on a change to BlogMore in the background, I got...