I write about Linux, Debian, Windows, general geeky stuff, making things and just about everything.
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I got sick of all the ukulele tuner apps so I decided to make my own. The best ukulele tuner app I’ve found on the iPhone works by repeatedly playing the note you are tuning to rather than trying to…
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convert mp3 to m4b on the linux command line
I quite often want to convert mp3 files to m4b, Apple’s proprietary nastiness. There is pacpl of course but that has issues these days, particularly with copying the id3 tags to the new file.FFmpeg can do it when you build…
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Build and install emacssnapshot packages on Debian Stable
Despite emacssnapshot only providing prebuilt packages for Debian unstable, building and installing the packages on stable is quite straight forward. I wrote a script to automate it. I’m sure there are better ways to do this, but it works for…
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New host
I migrated to a new host. If you can see this, you are looking at emacstragic on the new host.
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Wan’t to help organise a Perl conference in Sydney in 2017? Apply within!
Some of us at the Sydney PM group and the #australia Perl IRC channel have been discussing holding an perl conference in Sydney in 2017. If this is something you are interested in attending or organising, please get in touch.…
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Automatically lookup amazon books on booko
I love books and I love booko. So I decided to help Amazon help me check prices on booko with a little Tampermonkey script. It makes the ISBN-13 on Amazon a clickable link that will open a new tab to…
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Finished my workbench!
I finished my workbench. It took me about 12 months and a broken toe to do it. Very happy with the result but now I need to fit the vice. I copied Paul Sellers’ design from his YouTube videos. In…
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I am transitioning GPG keys
—–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA1 I am transitioning GPG keys from an old 4096-bit RSA key to a new 4096-bit RSA key. This transition document is signed with both keys to validate the transition. If you have signed my…
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Waves in the Sydney Skyline
Lovely clouds over Sydney showing waves in the atmosphere
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Origami Octahemioctahedron
I made an Octahemioctahedron from John Montroll’s book A Plethora of Polyhedra in Origami
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