If you have been following the blog for any amount of time you will have heard of PYWrite, my ‘oh so simple’ text editor. As you might remember, the original idea for PYWrite was to create a straight forward / not in your face / not complicated manuscript editor for
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Apps, OS especially the amazing Linux.
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Gotta Have Music!
I am one of those people, you know the ones, that gets the odd looks in public (trust me nothing new to me) because we are constantly humming or singing to ourselves. Honest folks I am not totally crackers, though I have heard it helps in my business! I spend
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Chyrp Chyrp
There is nothing like busting it all week at work just to catch a ‘bug’ on your days off – ugh! So this weekend I toughed it out through bowling, dinner out (see ‘Haddicked’ in ‘Words That Should Be In The Dictionary‘), then boxing this morning only to spend most
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1st Looks – Linux OS For Older Laptops
From time to time I like to try out new distros of Linux on my old laptops, just to see if I can get them to run. I still keep my primary machine on Linux Mint (22.2), mostly from habit and cuz it is the closest metaphor to Winblows I
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Feeling Crafty
A few years ago I wrote my wife an on-line webapp to calculate the amount of yarn you would need for a weaving (she being an avid weaver). The webapp seemed popular at the time, but probably in need of an update. This time around I decided to work on
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Weather Light or Dark
Finally getting back to fixing some of the niggling issues in these apps I have created. OpenWeather data uses metres/second for wind speed, which is all good, but to the average person doesn’t mean a whole heck of a lot (m/s times 3.6 equals kmh). So just had to fix