Curiositry

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How to Migrate Kobo eReader Books & Annotations to a New Device

And probably not even brick it … »

Script: export post as Markdown via Ghost Admin API

Once upon a time I deleted the production database … »

Create custom filtered RSS feeds in Ghost, the easy way

Create custom feeds, on custom routes, without editing theme files … »

GIF showing the power of regex (for non-programmers!) with a demo using the example of finding all telephone numbers and changing their format with LibreOffice Writer search and replace

Regex is horrible, yet regex is amazing

And it’s not just for programmers … »

Wallabag wins, despite its flaws

Freedom and flexibility make up for the rough edges (and the competition has its own usability issues) … »

Patching KOReader Wallabag Plugin to add star support

Now you can star Wallabag entries from the comfort of your Kobo e-reader … »

A list of public Wallabag instances that seem legit

Especially free-to-use instances that might be around for a while … »

Graph of sleep duration and all cause mortality

An unsolved question in sleep science

Or, a display of my ignorance of sleep science … »

Filtering RSS feeds by tag

Use CommaFeed filter expressions to hide irrelevant posts like this one … »

Cerelog’s ESP-EEG is a new 8 channel biosensing board at a hobbyist-friendly price

The same number of channels of EEG/EMG/ECG for half the price … »

I’m trying #100DaysToOffload

A blogging challenge where you publish 100 posts in the space of a year … »

Quality, Quantity, and Effective Iteration

The blogosphere abounds with free advice, and one of the more frequently-repeated morsels is to “be prolific”, and quality will naturally follow. The following story, from Art & Fear by David Bayles and … »

I can haz knowledgebase

I’ve often felt sheepish about my personal knowledgebase: it’s just a pile of text files. Everyone else has their own self-hosted MediaWiki or Obsidian or Digital Garden and mine is stuck … »

Tortoise Mode vs Hare Mode

When I was a boy, I had a ride-on lawnmower with no blades. I’d wanted a ride-on lawnmower for years, ever since my brothers and I found and restored-to-life a John Deere … »

On Troubleshooting

Much of what I do, in multiple fields, could be reduced to one skill: troubleshooting. I’ll define troubleshooting as systematically determining the cause of unwanted behaviour in a system, and fixing it. … »

Scroll-to-text fragment bookmarklet

TL;DR I made a thing and think it’s cool. Have you ever wanted to send someone a link, not to a huge and confusingly-laid-out webpage, but to the one sentence that’ … »

The Autodidacts

Exploring the universe from the inside out