I recently resurrected my old original Raspberry Pi B+ and installed NetBSD on it. Currently, it’s acting as a bastion for my local network, but I’ve been thinking of other projects I could do with it. One of those is to build something like Pi-Hole with it, as …
One of the consequences of being on a lockdown is that you find time to do things you’ve been putting off for a while. One of mine is setting up a small bastion server on my home network. Having already set up dynamic DNS with Duck DNS, I found …
Following on from last year’s post, it’s time to re-examine where I am in my life once more.
My weight has stayed surprisingly stable over the last year. I’m still overweight, and I’ve yet to hit my goal of getting below 70kg, but the …
This assumes you have a package called mylambda and a requirements.txt file listing your dependencies.
build.sh:
#!/bin/sh
tmp_dir=$(mktemp -d)
trap "rm -rf '$tmp_dir'" EXIT
pip install -r requirements.txt -t "$tmp_dir"
cp -R mylambda "$tmp_dir/mylambda"
here=$(pwd)
(
cd $tmp_dir
zip -r -9 $here/lambda.zip …I often need VMs set up locally for development purposes. Setting these up manually can be time-consuming and error-prone, so I use Ansible to almost entirely automate the process.
[Aside: This post assumes you know how to use Ansible, and also doesn’t go into a tonne of detail on …
I’ve had variants of this stuck in my drafts for a while now. It’s time I sat down and wrote down what’s been on my mind.
First of all, go read Salary Negotiation Tips from White Men in Tech (and part 2). It had been on my …
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I’ve had a post sitting here, waiting to be finished for almost three years. It concerns my previous attempt to fix my weight issues. There’s no sense in trying to post it now, but I might work it into a few different posts. There’s some stuff …
It’s coming to the end of the year, and I figure it’s a good time to review what went well over the past year, what went poorly, and how things can go better.
First up, and most important, is that I found a few great friends …
There’s some parsing needed on the input file, and because there doesn’t seem much point in writing the parsing code myself, I used the text_io crate.
Also, I needed some representation of the rectangles, so I wrote a simple implementation with some tests for a method …
Very simple. Just a matter of summing up the lines.
Given this is the first time I’m writing non-trivial Rust, I ran into a small issue. Initially, my main function used the default return type of (), so when I compiled my code, I got this:
warning: unused …This one has us applying a simple algorithm to a list of strings to extract some characteristics of a string - specificially, whether a given string contains exactly two or three of any letter - then summing up how many each of these characteristics applies to the strings, and multiplying …
I haven’t posted here in two years. This site was meant to be a way for me to start writing something more than post random crap on Twitter. I’ve failed at that, but I’d like to try again.
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What’s written above was accurate when I …
Back in January, I picked up a Lenovo Miix 310 a while back to play with Windows. It was an interesting experience, but I really can’t see myself shifting my development over to Windows any time soon, so I figured I’d throw Xubuntu on it and see if …
The orthography of Esperanto is terrible. Not as bad as, say, English or French, but pretty bad. It needn’t have been this way, though, as it’s so very close to actually being good.
Many screeds against Esperanto orthography will point to its use of diacritics, but this is …
This has frustrated me for so long.
If you want to use checkboxes in a form in Django, the obvious choice is BooleanField. There are times it would be really useful to have the value attribute filled out, but by default, Django just checks for the presence of the field …
Some good friends of mine got married recently, and I helped out with the site for the wedding. One of the things that needed to be put up on the site was a poem. Now, just dropping the text of the poem into the page as-is would look weird; poems …
It’s almost like a rite of passage for a developer to write a monad tutorial.
Well, this isn’t a monad tutorial. This is simply an effort to put an end to some of the nonsense that leads to monad tutorials being written in the first place and all …
My git workflow for anything non-trivial is pretty straightforward, but a little different from what I’ve seen others describe. I’m almost certainly not the only person out there who uses this workflow, so I’m certainly not claiming any originality.
There seem to be two camps, both based …
It’s funny. When I started this, I didn’t think the first proper post here I’d make would be on Irish grammar. This assumes a certain basic knowledge of Irish, such as word order and basic vocabulary. Tweet at me with any feedback.
Like English, but unlike many …