So I had the first dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination on Tuesday. No noticeable side-effects apart from a slight bruise-like pain at the injection site. I’ve had a cold (mild tonsillitis?) since Monday though which could have masked other side-effects.
The lighting in my bedroom uses Philips Hue bulbs — specifically, the coloured ones. Last night, I decided it would be nice to set the three lights in my bedroom to cycle slowly through a set of warm colours using…
Happy New Year! Now it’s 2021, and all our .EU domain names can stop working. The only one I own is tmpdir.eu and I only use it as a placeholder domain name when I’m working on a new website. There’s a couple of in-progress websites and a staging site or two that will be affected … Continued
Recently I’ve mostly been using Understrap as a theme for WordPress, however the Understrap GitHub repository has shown a disturbing lack of maintenance for the last year or so. With Bootstrap 5 on the horizon, and WordPress and PHP constantly moving forward, I don’t want to be stuck in a potential development dead-end using Understrap. … Continued
I’ve previously blogged about creating keyboard shortcuts in WordPress. Now I’ve bundled that up into a plugin. It’s available on GitHub. https://github.com/tobyink/php-wp-ctrl-semicolon
For letting me know my test coverage has increased by 0.00006%. (Seriously it’s a pretty cool service though.)…
I don’t usually take part in the Perl Weekly Challenge but one of this week’s challenges caught my eye. I thought it could be a fun thing to attempt and decided to use Zydeco to help solve it. The problem…
In algebra, there’s this pretty funky concept: And I was thinking if $f and $g were coderefs, what could $f + $g be?…
Usually when I blog about programming, it’s Perl stuff, but here’s something that’s mostly Javascript (with a little PHP to act as a shim for WordPress). It’s a script to use Tempus Dominus as a date/time picker for HTML 5 date and time form inputs on Bootstrap/jQuery-based sites. It lets you do stuff like this: … Continued
Today I released Zydeco::Lite, a re-implementation of Zydeco but just using standard Perl syntax. So for example, class { … } becomes class(sub { …});. This has the advantage of much faster compile time, similar run time speed, fewer dependencies,…
So I like to keep local copies of my blogs.perl.org blog posts as Atom entries, but noticed yesterday that I had a few gaps in my collection. The Atom feeds offered by blogs.perl.org only have the most recent articles though,…
Prompted by a recent question on PerlMonks, I’ve been thinking a bit recently on marshalling and unmarshalling Perl objects. If you’re happy using Data::Dumper’s format, then it’s trivial, but today we’re looking at JSON. If you just want to encode…
Mom is a shortcut for creating Moo classes (and roles). It allows you to define a Moo class with the brevity of Class::Tiny. (In fact, Mom is even briefer.) A simple example:…
Overall, I think the Perl 7 announcement is great news. I only have one small objection:…
I was recently shown this puzzle: There are some things I found a little unclear about it. For example, should the following two circles count as being connected? There is a line between them, even if it’s interrupted by a circle. And what about these two circles? Are they connected? Again, there’s a diagonal line … Continued
WordPress does have a toolbar for logged-in administrators, but I often like to keep this feature disabled so while I’m viewing the site, I see it like normal visitors do. It’s nice to have a quick way to edit the page you’re currently viewing though. Here’s a way to allow the Ctrl+; keyboard combination to … Continued
I’ve been doing my grocery shopping online on and off since about 2000 or 2001 and I believe Sainsburys was the first supermarket I’ve used for it, and I did stick with them for a while. Mostly now I use Tesco, though I’ve used Waitrose, Ocado, and ASDA too. Today I found myself ordering from … Continued
The other useful guide I’ve been following for setting up email lately has been Secure Postifx Using Let’s Encrypt. Let’s Encrypt is a pretty cool certification authority that makes setting up HTTPS for websites not just a doddle, but also free. I’ve been very impressed with it. But it can also be used to provide … Continued
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the EU law that forces pretty much all sites to display that annoying “please accept our cookies” message which you see everywhere. For those of us in the UK, Brexit is likely to slightly modify the law, but only slightly. So we have to deal with it. I … Continued
So I have recently been moving from one VPS to another. My first step was to move this website. Second was email services. Now, email has existed a long time. SMTP, the protocol used to transfer mail between clients and servers (and from server to server, and often internally on servers from one queue to … Continued
