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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Back in the late 1990s, like plenty of people who were very online, I was a very avid user of Usenet. There were a few groups I was very active in, even a couple that I maintained a FAQ for. Being that active and wanting to help and...
Recently I've had an odd problem with Emacs: occasionally, and somewhat randomly, as I wrote code, and only when I wrote Emacs Lisp code, and only when working in emacs-lisp-mode, I'd find that the buffer I was working in would...
Another wee update to blogmore.el, with a bump to v4.2. After adding the webp helper command the other day, something about it has been bothering me. While the command is there as a simple helper if I want to change an individual image...
I'm sat on the sofa, MacBook perched on my lap, going over some photos and generally feeling pretty tired in a really satisfying way. We've just had a brief weekend run to one of my favourite places on the planet, back in the county I...
Following on from yesterday's experiment with webp I got to thinking that it might be handy to add a wee command to blogmore.el that can quickly swap an image's extension from whatever it is to webp. So v4.1 has happened. The new command...
For a good while now I've been pretty happy with the PageSpeed measurements of this blog, which in turn means I've been happy with the state of what's generated by BlogMore. I have pretty much everything that can be minified nice and...
boxquote.el is another of my oldest Emacs Lisp packages. The original code itself was inspired by something I saw on Usenet, and writing my own version of it seemed like a great learning exercise; as noted in the thanks section in the...
Quick little update for BlogMore, with a bump up to v2.14.0. This release comes from another feature request from Andy1, where he asked if it would be possible to have a year-based bar chart in the stats page. Funnily enough I'd been...
Yet another older Emacs Lisp package that has had a tidy up. This one is slstats.el, a wee package that can be used to look up various statistics about the Second Life grid. It's mainly a wrapper around the API provided by the Second...
Yesterday evening I released v1.4.0 of OldNews, my terminal-based client for TheOldReader. The change in this release is pretty straightforward, but something I kept finding myself wanting. I've added three new commands to the...
I think I'm mostly caught up with the collection of Emacs Lisp packages that need updating and tidying, which means yesterday evening's clean-up should be one of the last (although I would like to revisit a couple and actually improve...
I just grabbed and opened up the MacBook Air and met this: First time I've ever seen this and I've been using Ghostty for quite a while now. To be fair, the MacBook did update to 26.4.1 overnight and has tried to get back to the state it...
The experiment with building an MCP server continues, with some hacking on it happening over a couple of hours while killing time in an Edinburgh coffee shop. It is, of course, a solution looking for a problem, and I suspect I'm the only...
This morning I'm tinkering some more with NGMCP. Having done a release yesterday and tested it out by globally installing it with: uv tool install ngmcp I was then left with the question: how do I easily test the version of the code I'm...
Recently I've been thinking that it would be interesting to get to know a little about the Model Context Protocol and see what it's about and get a feel for how useful it might be, if at all, for anything I do. As always happens when I...