Following on from yesterday's release of BlogMore, I've been looking at some more information in the Google Search Console, which helped me uncover a couple more bugs in relation to URL generation. This time I noticed a couple of issues, both related to the clean_urls setting. The first was that, in the recently...

This was a nice find yesterday: I think I came across it when someone I follow on Mastodon boosted a post from the account related to the site; it's a site called powRSS. The concept is pretty simple: collect links to all sorts of small blogs on all sorts of topics, and then provide a honking great discovery...

Three months back I released obs2nlm, a tool that takes an Obsidian vault and turns it into a single Markdown file so it can be used as a source for NotebookLM. Since then I've been using it a lot and it's working out really well. Meanwhile, one of my vaults has started to creep up towards the documented word limit...

Since kicking off building BlogMore and swapping this blog over to using it I've been playing with the Google Search Console. It's something I've not used in decades, but felt it was time to dip back in again and understand how it works these days. There are two motivations for this: the first is that, when it comes...

After adding the streak display to the stats a couple of days back, I got a little more obsessed with knowing what sort of runs of days of posting to the blog I had. I even said in that post: It almost makes me want to do a whole-blog-lifetime version of it, or perhaps some sort of more calendar-oriented version of...

I wondered yesterday: ...those question headers are displaying differently, with the background colour no longer spanning the width of the window. I'd like to understand why. Turns out it was pretty straightforward: diff --git a/quiz.el b/quiz.el index 2dbe45d..c1ba255 100644 --- a/quiz.el +++ b/quiz.el @@ -40,7...

Today's Emacs Lisp package tidy-up is of a package I first wrote a couple of employers ago. While working on code I often found myself viewing FASTA files in an Emacs buffer and so I thought it would be fun to use this as a reason to knock up a simple mode for highlighting them. fasta.el was the result. While I...

I've released an update to BlogMore, with another little straightforward addition. This time I'm revisiting the statistics page and adding a streak tracker, of sorts. Modelled after the GitHub contribution tracker, or indeed any number of other streak trackers, it shows which days in the recent past I've blogged on,...

A quick little refresh of one of my old packages, this time quiz.el. This is a nice little distraction when you're working in Emacs, letting you spin up a quick trivia quiz in a buffer. It's backed by the Open Trivia Database, so there's a good few subjects, questions, and levels of difficulty to play with. The only...

While I have been doing a lot of hacking on blogmore.el, I haven't forgotten my plan to revisit and refresh some of my older personal packages. This evening I've paid some attention to expando.el. This started life a long time ago, as part of my grab-bag of handy functions that got carried around and copied from...

Despite having bumped it from 2.x to 3.x yesterday, I'm calling v4.0 on blogmore.el today. There's a good reason for this though. While tinkering with some of the configuration yesterday, and also answering a configuration question last night, I realised that it made sense to make some of the internals into public...

When I first started writing blogmore.el it was just going to be a handful of commands that let me spin up a new blog post, and insert the odd link here and there when needed. Initially it only handled a single blog, and everything it did was based around how I lay my personal blog out, and was also very much geared...