• LaTeX Tables With Data-Based Content

    Posted on 28 November 2024

    I have been simplifying and standardising the LaTeX files used to generate my company’s policies and agreements. This has included using some easily editable ‘metadata’ at the start of each document and I wanted to be able to manage the changelog contents there too. [Read More]
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  • From Digital To Physical Media

    Posted on 26 December 2023

    This morning the YouTube algorithm suggested a video called “Wait, what happened to HMV?” to me. It covered the decline and then revival of the company and ended wondering if it would survive with people buying physical albums on CD or vinyl or whether streaming or digital purchases would ‘win’.... [Read More]
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  • My Twitter Wind-Down

    Posted on 16 January 2023

    Last Friday Twitter disabled the API keys of the major Twitter clients, including Tweetbot, my client of choice, with no notice, and no communication with the app developers or their customers. [Read More]
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  • My Git Notes

    Posted on 14 December 2022

    This blog post is a personal reference in that I wanted to document the Git commands I use the most now that I use the command line more and more. I am publishing it as a blog post so that I can refer back to it quickly and easily. It... [Read More]
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  • Mastodon

    Posted on 30 October 2022

    If you use Twitter and are seeing this blog post then there is a good chance you know that Mastodon is an alternative social network which is similar to Twitter but with enough differences to make it seem odd. [Read More]
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  • NixOS, Phoenix and Sass

    Posted on 27 July 2022

    Elixir’s web application framework, Phoenix, is moving away from needing a dependency on Node to make projects easier to maintain and thing in general just a bit simpler. The most recent step towards this was the release of a Tailwind Elixir library which installs and runs a standalone copy of... [Read More]
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  • My Linux Life

    Posted on 22 May 2022

    After I wrote about my love of StarLabs’s 11” laptop, the StarLite, someone asked me about the software I run on it, how I work with people who use Windows and macOS and whether things like using a laptop with 8GB of RAM is a problem. It all seems like... [Read More]
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