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Which Photos are Actually Documents?
I had the removable hard disk from an old friend.
I wanted to pass the photos and videos on to someone else.
Unfortunately, it was also full of documents and private information.
It’s easy to get rid of the documents that can be identified by filename extension.
But what about photos of documents?
I could manually look at each of them, but there are more than 100,000 images!
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CYOA (Choose Your Own Adventure) Patterns
One of my go-to daily sites for news of computing is Hacker News. This article discusses the various story structures of interactive fiction.
I find it interesting when the structures of interactive fiction can be reduced to a number of repeating patterns. These are likely to be structures that writers are able to adhere to, and players are likely to be able to make sense of.
As a workmate once said to me, “The difference between real life and fiction is that fiction has to make sense.”
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Free Backup for Linux
I have been looking for a decent backup for the odd VPS (Virtual Private Server) linux system I have been building over the last twenty or so years.
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Short Fiction - Carolling
Heinrick Jones stretched half-waking, suddenly eyes wide in confusion and panic. The first time in his new abode. The panic of waking up in a sealed coffin. Scream rising from the depths then dissolving with realisation and relief. Deep breath and a long sigh.
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Efficiently uploading your website from a mac
Jekyll is a cool way to quickly produce web content. You can view your site locally running this command from the root of your jekyll site:
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Script to list your package managers
Created a script to list the package managers installed on my mac.
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In 2017, learn *every* language
I’m finding myself on the path to doing this. Might take 20 years though :)
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Programming Training
These are a few websites I have practised programming on:
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Macbook Pro Repeated Boot Kernel Panic Scare
I was computing away on the train this morning, when suddenly I couldn’t use Evernote any more because of an invalid security certificate. This was not what it seemed, and sure enough Safari started showing a bunch of blank security certificates. I closed down the computer and restarted. And received a kernel panic about 10 seconds into the boot before it restarted continually.
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Recovering from a Broken WordPress Theme
If you assign your WordPress site to a theme that is broken, it could make every page show white.
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