I was messing around with swapping the Caps Lock key and the Escape key, and this in combination with using the Colemak keyboard layout ended up causing some confusion.

Anyway it turns out to reset any options you may have set with setxkbmap it's not as simple as just running …

Launched a simple project I did for college as a website.

Irish Tide Times

Get the tide times for Ireland by text.

It's done with Django.

Might later expand it offer a JSON API.

They now have my favourite water in the shop near college.

I have been playing around with a promising new browser called Qutebrowser since the demise of dwb

I had a problem with newsbeuter with opening links using qutebrowser (it was holding up newsbeuter). The workaround was the following script:

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#!/bin/sh
# wrapper for newsbeuter

exec ~/src …

http://qutebrowser.org/31c3.webm

I got a Wacom Intuos tablet and was having trouble using it for general scrolling - eg. using a web browser. Couldn't figure out how to map the lower button to scrolling, the way it is with the middle mouse button on my thinkpad.

The solution, for anyone who has the …

Shepherd's Pie with spiced parsnip mash

Ottolenghi's shakshuka recipe

Paleo Fish and Chips

Sirloin Salad with Fresh Herbs and Thai Dressing

Thai Fish Soup

Perfect Chicken Tikka

Crab with Mango and Avocado

Roasted Chicken

Perfect roasted chicken

Slow-roasted chicken

Pancakes

Sweet Potato Pancakes

Paleo Pumpkin Pancakes

Fluffy Coconut Flour Pancakes …

Got a Chromecast as a Christmas present and finding it really handy.

Especially so after the discovery of castnow which lets you stream anything to the chromecast from the command line.

What really won me over was the option --subtitles

How cool is that?