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Upgraded mastodon to 4.3.3 | Synesthesia
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Upgraded my one-user server from 4.2.something to 4.3.3. Went smoothly once I remembered to do the 4.2 to 4.3 upgrade procedure first…
on Tue, 11AM
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Transcribing meeting recordings with OpenAI | Synesthesia
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Using a little bit of Python to transcribe a meeting recording with OpenAI
on Oct 9
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Bookmark of 'SQL 4 CDS XrmToolBox Tool - Mark Carrington' | Synesthesia
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I’ve been aware of this clever tool from Mark Carrington for some time, but have not had much occasion to use it. I suspect that, in part, this is because of my relatively low experience with SQL - if I need to bulk query CDS records outside code I tend to go straight to FetchXml tools. However...
on Sep 3
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Bookmark of '101 Additional Advices' | Synesthesia
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On his 74th Birthday Kevin Kelly offers another 101 pieces of advice to his children. I especially liked: If you think someone is normal, you don’t know them very well. Normalcy is a fiction. Your job is to discover their weird genius.
on Apr 22
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Bookmark of 'Blockin bots. — ethanmarcotte.com' | Synesthesia
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Ethan shows how to use a generated .htaccess file to block AI crawlers. I use Netlify so speculating this might be a use case for an edge function.
on Apr 16
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Weeknote 2024 W11-12 | Synesthesia
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Complex processes, a chat with @elsua and some rewarding viewing, listening and reading
on Mar 22
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Bookmark of 'An irrational(?) fear of low-code solutions - Allan Kelly' | Synesthesia
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I think Allan’s right, and it’s not irrational… Been burnt by these (non) features of low-code services a few times.
on Mar 22
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20 Days in Mariupol | Synesthesia
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This is a hard watch, but essential viewing for anyone who cares about what happens when a dictator in all but name unleashes their army on civilians.
on Mar 18
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Weeknote 2024 W10 | Synesthesia
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Keeping the weeknote as bucket of stuff approach
on Mar 8
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Bookmark of 'Blog - Maths equations in diagrams' | Synesthesia
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Didn’t know that draw.io supported embedded maths typesetting - even works in the VS Code extension
on Mar 5
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Bookmark of 'Hide irrelevant data in your PRs - Dev notes' | Synesthesia
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@majkp@hostux.social shows how to hide large data files from your diffs with .gitattributes
on Mar 2
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Bookmark of 'Leisure firm told scanning staff faces is illegal' | Synesthesia
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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) says Serco Leisure has been unlawfully processing the biometric data of more than 2,000 employees at 38 UK leisure facilities. It did so to check staff attendance - a practice the ICO said was “neither fair nor proportionate”.
on Mar 1
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WeekNote 2024 W08 | Synesthesia
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Revisiting a familiar format to reboot writing — technical debt, systems thinking and tool of the week
on Mar 1
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A couple of Power Automate gotchas | Synesthesia
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Wrote up a couple of Power Automate recipes I had to spend ages to get right: reading files from SharePoint and attaching multiple files to email.
on Feb 8
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Reply to 'A RSS Feed For My Mastodon Bookmarks' | Synesthesia
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An excellent idea from Ton! Adapting it for my own context I can see two possible options - either pull the bookmarks from Mastodon into bookmark entries on this blog, or post to Diigo as new bookmarks. Probably the latter as I am fairly liberal in what I bookmark on Mastodon.
on Feb 5
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Bookmark of 'Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time.' | Synesthesia
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A great way to find new voices and a bit of mind-stimulation…
on Feb 1
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Bookmark of 'HIST1900 with Shawn Graham - The History of the Internet' | Synesthesia
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Dr Shawn Graham ( @electricarchaeo@scholar.social ) runs a course on the history of the internet that takes, in his words, an “archaeological” approach to its subject. Visible from outside the course, and the thing that caught my interest, is his Connectivist approach with Students using...
on Jan 30
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Bookmark of 'Git is my buddy: Effective Git as a solo developer - Mikkel Paulson' | Synesthesia
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Mikkel’s way of using git seems like it would work for me too.
on Jan 12, 2024
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Reply to 'How to write about blogs' | Synesthesia
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It’s struck me how we are seeing a renaissance of explaining blogs to people who never saw them before - a good sign but still slightly amusing to those who were around the first time. This post from Frank Meeuwsen is a good example of cutting through the hype that appeared “somewhere in the...
on Jan 8, 2024
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Expanding Digger to work with Hypothes.is | Synesthesia
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Expanded my Digger small-tech tool to now extract basic annotations from Hypothes.is into local Markdown notes.
on Jan 5, 2024
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Working around problems with hypothes.is bookmark | Synesthesia
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Discovered that sites which set Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy: same-origin break the hypothes.is bookmark. Workaround is to open the site using the “Via” proxy. See GH issue.
on Jan 3, 2024
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Stumbled upon Not a Designer, could usefully review some of these posts - shame it has no RSS
on Jan 2, 2024
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Blogging review 2023 | Synesthesia
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A few thoughts about why my online writing tailed off from mid-year, and what I might change.
on Jan 2, 2024
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How to upload large media to your WordPress site
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An evolving set of notes by Synesthesia.
on Dec 4, 2023
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Distributed locking in Azure Functions | Synesthesia
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We have an integration between Dataverse and a third party system that runs in Azure Functions. Third party have now acknowledged that in certain race conditions their system can create two entries duplicated on what should be a unique key. Just deployed what I hope is a fix to our code that...
on Nov 20, 2023
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Bookmark of 'Displaying Likert Scale data, same data, displayed 7 different ways' | Synesthesia
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Some useful ideas for today’s little challenge…
on Nov 17, 2023
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How did I not know this about Excel? | Synesthesia
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Only just found out that if you set an Excel cell format to Text, it displays formulae as a literal without evaluation. How long did I chase around that issue yesterday? 😠
on Nov 15, 2023
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Note to self - when Mastodon stops serving avatars | Synesthesia
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Note to self - when my single-person Mastodon instance stops serving avatars, check the SSL cert on the media subdomain…
on Nov 10, 2023
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Digital Garden moves to 11ty | Synesthesia
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Migrated my Digital garden from Gatsby to Eleventy, using a modified fork of the excellent rothsandro/eleventy-notes
on Nov 8, 2023
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Linear Regression basics - course note | Synesthesia
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A second notebook test with some course notes on Linear Regression
on Nov 7, 2023
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Sample Jupyter Notebook | Synesthesia
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This is a test of importing Jupyter notebooks directly as work notes print(1+1) 2
on Nov 7, 2023