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2021-10-11

Cheap Laptop Upgrade

Upgrading memory & hard drive in an Asus F507M laptop (with mostly-broken keyboard). A €300-ish machine made significantly more friendly with €70 of parts and a couple of hours work (mostly research). Some tips if you want to do something similar. Caveat: I use Ubuntu, no idea what might be different on other operating systems. Background A few years back...

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2021-10-04

Drawing a Million Dots

tl;dr : Live demo, code on github, a million dots (maybe) Edit 2021-10-07 : I’ve tweaked the code to allow upload of arbitrary images and be able to change the parameters Big numbers feature a lot on the news. But how does one visualize millions, billions, trillions..? There are a bunch of things I want to write in Javascript in...

Coding Comments: 0

2021-09-15

Shibboleths in Academia

I’ve wanted an excuse to use this word for years. From Wikipedia : A shibboleth (/ˈʃɪbəlɛθ, -ɪθ/) is any custom or tradition, usually a choice of phrasing or even a single word, that distinguishes one group of people from another. Shibboleths have been used throughout history in many societies as passwords, simple ways of self-identification, signaling loyalty and affinity, maintaining...

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2021-09-06

Make the Difficult Things Easy (the easy things difficult)

WordPress has the most unintuitive user interface I’ve ever encountered. It’s horrible! Ok, block editor, I guess I can see why you might want that. But the way it’s implemented, seems a lot more hard work than something like trad WYSIWYG. I’m way out of touch with HTML+CSS, both seem to have become Turing Complete and probably sentient in the...

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2021-09-04

WordPress Blog Update

I installed WordPress using XAMPP, a packaged-up version of Apache + MariaDB + PHP + Perl, which has WordPress as a plugin. I used this fairly recently for some local dev work and it seemed to work nicely. Doing it live, here, brought some annoyances. First, I want static site material at https://hyperdata.it/ and this blog at https://hyperdata.it/blog. This setup...

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2021-09-03

Linux Audio Problems? Try this.

(On Ubuntu 21.04 with a USB audio interface – ymmv) For general use, sound on any modern Linux distribution Just Works. But when you start attaching audio interfaces and playing with things like digital audio workstations (DAWs) or video editing, things can get very confusing very fast. Historically, things like soundcards were an absolute pain on Linux. While manufacturers would...

Multimedia/New Place Comments: 0

2021-08-24

Thrums

qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq is a test. Bum, didn’t work. I quite like this WordPress Theme ‘Coldbox’, one of the first I saw & tried. But was annoyed by the fonts offered. Had a nosey around, it does look like its options are hardcoded. My gods, WordPress is convoluted. Simple question – how do you change the default font? Seems a popular option...

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2021-08-24

Hello (New) World (Order)!

Yet another blog site. Annoyingly, I posted the stuff below to Facebook first. Post to blog first, excerpt to other people’s platforms second, please danny. Now what can I use for a featured image? Ah – this was in the eatery we went to this evening: (Ew, and change this horrible typeface). [[ After a few weeks on other things,...

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2021-08-23

Hello!

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2021-05-19

Not Climbing : Marlin Spike

As a kid I was the one the family would turn to, to undo knots. Having played with various cords & ropes recently, after loading with a middle-aged man, just nope. But coincidentally, YouTube videos on knots, came across the Marlinspike hitch. Is a really useful thing, how to easily attach a cord to a stick or whatever to get...

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