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Zola Blog Editor

10 June, 2026 - 179 words
Zola Blog Editor is a desktop and mobile application for posting to your Zola blog when the content is stored in GitHub. On my Android e-ink tablet it looks like this:

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Planning is a superpower

22 October, 2025 - 711 words
It has taken me many years to recognise that one of the main differences between me and many others in the software development world, and part of what makes me good at software engineering management, is that I don't just look at the piece of work in front of me, but also the one behind that (and beyond that, too). I have previously heard several people in software engineering (and adja...

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72 seasons on the TRMNL

24 June, 2025 - 300 words
The traditional Japanese Calendar has 72 seasons in a year, each made up of a handful of days. I have always found these to be a very calming way of reminding myself to look around and observe the changes in nature as the year progresses. I've written a plug-in for

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Pairing bluetooth headphones with your Mecool Android TV

17 June, 2025 - 165 words
I have a Mecool KM2 Plus Android TV which I have in my garage so I can watch Netflix or whatever whilst riding my bike online. Generally speaking I really like this box. I also have some

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Export a list of all the people you follow on Medium as OPML

06 June, 2025 - 744 words

For my sins, I follow lots of people on Medium.

For their sins, I never check Medium to see what they're writing.

The link below is a bookmarklet which will export the list of people you are following on Medium as an OPML file so that you can import it into your feed reader.

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Converting wayback machine pages into blog posts

04 June, 2025 - 1120 words

Summary: I extracted a load of old blog content from the feeds archived on the Wayback Machine and converted it into markdown files suitable for posting on my blog, and got AI to write all the code for me. The generated code is all here in github.

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Dark Wikipedia

01 May, 2025 - 137 words
I use a browser extension which always redirect wikipedia articles to their mobile equivalent (chrome, firefox). I find this much less cluttered and much more legible...

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