Paul Walker

📍 Bristol, UK

Fixing AirPrint on the LaserJet M15w

Hopefully this will save someone else a few steps when they hit the same problem. We had a thunderstorm a few weeks back, and the power blipped. Stuff came back on but some of it - including the printer - wasn't quite the same afterwards. In particular, the printer was

Making a subset of Font Awesome

Font Awesome is, well, awesome - but there's no getting away from the fact that if you only want a few of the icons then it's not a lightweight package.

Goodbye, Dad.

My father passed away in mid-March. It wasn't expected. He'd not been well, but we were expecting the next thing to be another visit to hospital, not death. When it came time for the funeral, I wasn't able to give a eulogy. In that situation nobody wants to listen to

mbsync, SASL and Gmail

Slightly more esoteric than usual; I'm posting this for my benefit as much as anyone else's! I was just trying to set up mbsync [https://isync.sourceforge.io] to work with Gmail. I'd got most of the config copied from another provider [https://fastmail.com/], but kept getting an error

One Small Step...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If there is anyone following me, you might have noticed that I haven’t really posted anything lately. The reason is simple — there’s been so much going on at home that I haven’t had any brain space to write. There have been days when I could manage

My Apple purchase regrets

I read an interesting article by Mark Ellis [https://markellisreviews.com/the-apple-purchase-i-regret-the-most/] the other day which got me thinking about my biggest Apple purchasing regret. To be clear up-front, I’m very happy with most of their devices, and quite snug in their ecosystem. While they do have their faults

Things I wish I knew about… JavaScript modules

I have to confess it took me a while to get my head around JavaScript modules. This is at least partly because there are two different popular module systems, CommonJS [http://www.commonjs.org/] and ECMAScript 2015 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript] (usually shortened to ES2015). The ECMAScript 2015

JavaScript pattern - the “singleton file”

The other day I came across the solution to a number of problems I’d had in the past. I imagine it’s probably obvious to anyone who’s been doing JavaScript for a while, but since it took a while to dawn on me I thought I’d try

Live reload in Hapi

Something I’ve been meaning to address for a while is the lack of a livereload [https://github.com/livereload/livereload-js] plugin for Hapi [https://hapi.dev/]. Template changes are visible on manual reload if you turn off caching, but I’ve become used to automatic reloading when developing with

Making a macOS app

There are some things I’ve been wanting to write for a while that just don’t make sense as a web app. Since I’m primarily using macOS now (for leisure at least), I want a macOS app. After much digging and despairing, the best solution I’ve found