Development

Nov 13, 2023 ∞

👨🏼‍💻AppAcademy - Day 01 - HTML Forms

Talking about my learning to code, and completing the HTML Forms unit of the Intermediate HTML & CSS module of the AppAcademy Open curriculum. One of my barriers as a developer is iterating between different learning routes, without finishing, and heading back to the beginning. With the exception of the python based software engineering bootcamp that I completed with HyperionDev a year ago, I’ve really failed to kick on and build on that.

Sep 14, 2023 ∞

👨🏼‍💻 Replacing Social Media Noise with RSS Feeds

It is far too easy to lose hours and days into social media and news feeds that could otherwise be productive. In this article I talk a little about how I have used RSS feeds this year to avoid most social media and news sites, providing more focus to my reading time. I’ll also talk about where that has not been possible. I talked in an earlier article about how I had begun to use micro.

Sep 1, 2023 ∞

👨🏼‍💻🗺️ A couple of photographs of the Town to Turf Project in Burnley today.

Testing out an amended Apple shortcut to resize photographs, upload to micro.blog, and provide code for insertion (not in gallery form).

May 14, 2023 ∞

My next micro.blog challenge is to work out how to add custom pages for taxonomies with topic specific introductions. I’ve seen something over at help.micro.blog that shows how to do that, though I think I’ll save that mission for next weekend.

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May 6, 2023 ∞

I spent most of my time between posts at the end of the year accelerating my way through HyperionDev’s Software Engineering Bootcamp.

More than a little proud of this result, it was a fairly intense course, made tougher having to play catch up after a very busy time wrapping up my previous role.

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May 6, 2023 ∞

I’m going to try a micro.blog only approach to writing.

Though I got micro.blog and mastodon working nicely together with webmentions, I got tired of boosting my own posts. It felt like that complicated simplicity, sought attention, and generated zero conversation anyway. 👨‍💻

Apr 30, 2023 ∞

Markdown alphabetic index for use on Micro.Blog Hugo pages

I’ve been thinking about how best to create and organise some of the content I’ll be collating on my micro.blog based hugo site, for easy navigation, and without spamming my own timeline. I produced an A-Z index for collating data about Rouvy courses as I ride them here. Anyway, if you need a markdown based A-Z index with return to menu links, feel free to use below code snippet. [a](#a) | [b](#b) | [c](#c) | [d](#d) | [e](#e) | [f](#f) | [g](#g) | [h](#h) | [i](#i) | [j](#j) | [k](#k) | [l](#l) | [m](#m) | [n](#n) | [o](#o) | [p](#p) | [q](#q) | [r](#r) | [s](#s) | [t](#t) | [u](#u) | [v](#v) | [w](#w) | [x](#x) | [y](#y) | [z](#z) <a id="a"></a> ## A [[Return to top]](#top) <a id="b"></a> ## B [[Return to top]](#top) <a id="c"></a> ## C ### Clarence Drive | Whale Coast Route [29/04/2023](https://lee-perry.

Apr 26, 2023 ∞

I finally have micro.blog and Mastodon interfacing properly so interactions on both should now show as webmentions on the post at my website.

Sadly, I had to migrate from mastodon.scot to mastodonapp.uk to get it to work. For some reason mastodon.scot could not see my micro.blog user posts.

Apr 23, 2023 ∞

Chromebook AppAcademy setup

Setting up a Chromebook ready to work through the AppAcademy curriculum. Have been setting up the AppAcademy software profile on Chromebook this afternoon as I take myself back through their curriculum. Two Key points: The instructions to install python-openssl are outdated and need to be replaced with python3-openssl (or presumably install python2 alongside). The setup check script will not recognise the system in the Chromebook debian shell (see image). Otherwise, I think I have set the environment up ready to use, including installing node, nvm, and docker.

Apr 17, 2023 ∞

Amending the Title tag on a micro.blog custom theme

Optimising the Hugo title tag in micro.blog for better SEO. I have developed my micro.blog hosted Hugo website to replace existing social media channels with a single site. It holds snips that largely replicate the thoughts and conversation that many years ago I might have made on Twitter, and also shots that contains image posts that more recently I might have placed on Instagram. All of my long form articles are housed on this site too - everything under one roof.

Apr 16, 2023 ∞

Social sharing links for a micro.blog custom theme

I wrote a code snippet for my micro.blog custom theme to make it easier for readers (mainly me!) to share content with people who continue to sit on more mainstream social media sites. All of these links should work, but I do not have accounts at Twitter or Reddit - just let me know if anything does not work as it should, and I’ll look into. n.b reinserted as image due to code stripping on publication

Apr 2, 2023 ∞

Working through variables within the data types module of the #appAcademy Javascript Fundamentals course.

I’ve learned quite a bit of js previously, so easy enough. Key points reinforced - undefined variables will return undefined and if you try to do any math with them, it will return NaN.

Mar 5, 2023 ∞

Day [7/100] of the @talkpython@fosstodon.org TalkPython 100 days of web series.

Finished off the styling on my recreation of the Google 1998 beta website.

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Mar 4, 2023 ∞

Day [6/100] of the @talkpython@fosstodon.org TalkPython 100 days of web series.

Started off the recreation of the Google 1998 beta website, styling to finish off tomorrow.

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Mar 3, 2023 ∞

Day [5/100] of the @talkpython@fosstodon.org TalkPython 100 days of web series.

Watching the course videos ahead of 3 x days of html5 practice.

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Mar 2, 2023 ∞

Day [4/100] of the @talkpython@fosstodon.org TalkPython 100 days of web series.

Finalised the notes in the earlier post I had drafted, running through setting up a basic flask app.

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Mar 1, 2023 ∞

Day [3/100] of the @talkpython@fosstodon.org TalkPython 100 days of web series.

Setting up a scaffold flask application in replit, ready to build fire safety calculators into later.

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Feb 28, 2023 ∞

Setting up a basic Flask project

Workflow and templates follow for a small, routed, multi-page flask app - for MacOS / Linux based systems only.

Feb 28, 2023 ∞

Day two of the @talkpython@fosstodon.org TalkPython 100 days of web series, setting up template rendering in Flask with additional routing and mui css. [2/100]

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Feb 27, 2023 ∞

Kicking off the @talkpython@fosstodon.org TalkPython 100 days of web series, by setting op venv and flask, and getting a very basic site up and running on local host. [1/100]

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