For a little while now I have been trying to make my reading page look "prettier".
The main thing that I wanted was a really easy way to show if a book was a work in progress, finished or Did-not-finish. The page that I have been basing it on is …
I missed having the potential of discussions around things that I post here, but at the same time I didn't want to add load to the site to manage comments or complexity of databases, etc.
I remember seeing somewhere that people used to use Facebook for comments on their site …
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This project has developed A LOT in the last 11 months (where does the time go). If you are interested in using it, the repository is here - git.jeffmackinnon.com.
Something that I am enjoying learning is git, it is an amazing piece of software, but it is confusing …
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I have done some work on how this works, and now its a CLI script (but no wheel) that I have on my gitea instance. You can find it here - EXIF2txt.
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Way back in the day, when I was using Flickr as one of my daily visits, I …
At first I was developing this site, and all my python projects, using WSL2 but I was starting to find working between operating systems tedious. So I put everything on the base windows OS and kept going.
I already did this for this page and my company, but I'm moving our family archive too.
First, set up your environment, I'm using pipenv install , you may be doing something else.
Then install pelican and the …
I like the "idea" of Unix and the derivatives Linux and FreeBSD in particular. However, most the applications that I need to actually get work done rely on Windows.
So, when I build personal proejcts I like to build them with FreeBSD or a flavour of Linux (Like with TrueNAS …
EDIT:
This project has developed A LOT in the last 11 months (where does the time go). If you are interested in using it, the repository is here - git.jeffmackinnon.com.
It was a post titled How to write a Pelican theme for your static website by The Digital Cat …
For a little background, I haven't had a lot of fun with wordpress for my personal homepage for a while. Its not that wordpress is a bad piece of software, or that the company behind it are bad. Rather, this homepage is my hobby …
It turns out that I CAN install windows 11 on my main machine, not that I will for the next little while. Need to wait to make sure that all the vendors are going to support it.
When I first tried to install however, the PC Health Check app (Only …