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
After writing the earlier post I had to AFK to attend to normal life things. When I finally sat back at my keyboard, I decided to write my own take on minified_filename. To recap, this is what Copilot/Claude came up with first: def...
As mentioned a couple of times in the last couple of days, aside from one particular issue I found and fixed, I'm in more of a "let's review some of the code and tidy things up" phase with the codebase. This process is at times me...
In a post yesterday I finished off by saying: At least I have, as of the time of writing, 1,380 tests to check that I've not broken anything when I do hand-clean the code. But, hmm, there's a question: can I actually trust those tests?...
As mentioned in the previous post, I've been having a play around with Copilot/Claude vs Gemini when it comes to getting the agents to seek out "bad" code and improve it. In that first post on the subject, I highlighted how both tools...
While I don't, for a moment, think that the work on BlogMore is complete, I think it's fair to say that the rate of new feature additions has slowed down. Which is fine, there's only so much I need from a self-designed/directed static...
It seems that dunking on GitHub is the flavour of the day. At the moment most of the social/news type things I tend to read are filled with the Ghostty news, as well as a small revival of posts and links to blog posts about all the...
Ever since I kicked off the work on BlogMore I've had a renewed interest in writing on this blog (as you can probably tell from the stats and the calendar). But not just writing: also tweaking it, tidying it up, thinking about...
After releasing the graph view yesterday I got to thinking that it might be nice if the "tooltips" for the nodes in the graph were a little richer. Since we already know how many posts are within a category, or have a specific tag, it...
After adding the email comment invite facility to BlogMore it only made sense that I add some commands to blogmore.el to make it easier to edit the front matter that can help drive that feature. So... I've released v4.3.0 of blogmore.el...
I did some more tinkering with BlogMore yesterday, adding two new features. The first is one I've been considering adding for a wee while now. For a large part of the lifetime of this blog I used Disqus to provide a comments section on...
There is, obviously and understandably, a lot of conversation online about AI and coding and agents and all that stuff. Much of it I get, much of it I agree with, I share the vast majority of the concerns. The impact on people, the...
BlogMore has had a new release, bumping the version to v2.16.0. There are two main changes in this update, both coming from a single idea: internal back-links. Where it makes sense, I always try and link posts in this blog to other...
When I'm writing documentation in Markdown I like, where possible, to mark up keys with the <kbd> tag. This was the reason for one of the updates to BlogMore: I'd not done any good default markup for <kbd> and the moment I realised, I...
I've just made a small update to BlogMore. This fixes a minor cosmetic issue that's been bugging me for a while, but one that I kept forgetting to address. I noticed it again on a recent post. The issue is that if there are enough tags...
When I'm working in Emacs I use the *scratch* buffer quite a bit. I find it especially useful if I'm working on some Emacs Lisp code, but I also find it handy as a place to drop something I want to retrieve soon, or a quick note that I...