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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Apps, OS especially the amazing Linux.
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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
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Wireshark Filter Builder
So today we were running a bunch of network tests. If you are just monitoring the tests over Teams or Zoom or whatever it can be a bit boring watching a tcpdump ‘mature’ into a pcap file or downloading a set of logs. At least it can be for me.
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PYng Finally
Sometimes the simplest parts of an app are the real headscratchers! I had PYng all ready to go with simple fill in the blank boxes for the date and start / end times when I decided to use a popup calendar and time dropdowns. Now you think that would be