Diary of an Emacs tragic – Jason Lewis

Diary of an Emacs tragic

updating discord .deb one-liner

Discord will often require you to install an update. When this happens it quits itself and auto downloads the latest .deb, but you end up with lots of sequentially numbered versions of the .deb so it’s fiddly to find and install the latest one. I came up with this approach to apt install the most…

29/11/2023
Great video about how the Gaming Industry should not stay silent on the current genocide Israel is committing

10/11/2023
Free Palestine!

Palestine will be free, from the river to the sea.I stand with Palestine. I ❤️ 🇵🇸

30/10/2023
WSJ2023 – World Scout Jamboree 2023 Discord

There are a number of unofficial discords for WSJ2023. In particular for The IST team there is this one: https://discord.com/invite/A7rByrD WSJ2023 IST

01/04/2023
WSJ2023 Newsletters in one big searchable file

I was finding it really difficult to get the information I need from the Newsletters so I made one big searchable document with all the WSJ2023 Newsletters in one big file. I’ll endeavour to update it when new Newsletters come out WSJ 2023 Newsletters 1-5

08/03/2023
Sydney Harbour

A photo I took when I rode over Sydney Harbour Bridge recently

29/09/2021
Moved to a new host

I moved my site to a new host. If you can see this, you are viewing the new host.

29/09/2021
ESPHome configuration for Arlec Grid Connect Smart Plug-in Socket

Ben asked if I could share my ESPHome configuration for the Arlec device. Here it is:

04/09/2019
Putting ESPHome on Arlec Smart Plug In Socket

I got some of these Arlec Smart Plug In Sockets from Bunnings. Apparently they are Tuya devices but I decided to take the brute force approach to putting ESPHome on the. First challenge was getting the tri point screw out. I had to buy a special screwdriver for this. Once I got the screws out,…

23/07/2019
Can’t log in to Netflix on Samsung TV

I had this problem on our Samsung TV where no matter what, I couldn’t log into the Netflix app. I noticed that it happened just after I had changed the password to Netflix. Now lets not think about how fucking difficult it is to type in an email address and secure password using just a…

20/12/2018

Got any book recommendations?