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
Paul Walker
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.
One Small Step...
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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 macOSÂ 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
My 11 favourite Vim plugins
While I’m spending most of my JavaScript writing time in WebStorm these days, I
still use Vim a lot. Over time I’ve found some great plugins, extending Vim to
cope with an amazing amount of stuff.
I should note that these are all essentially general purpose plugins. Some
Things I wish I knew about… JavaScript functions
Especially coming from a C/Python/Elixir background, there were some things about JavaScript functions that I really didn’t get to start with.