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Wintersmith on Heroku | Blog | Tom Vincent

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Essays on hacking, travel and self-improvement. Is a static site generator written in Node. This post describes two methods of hosting a Wintersmith-powered site on Heroku. Note, much of this post is analogous to Matthew Manning’s write up. For Jekyll/Ruby-powered sites. Thanks Matthew. We’ll begin with how. Wintersmith’s preview server on Heroku. The simplest method of serving a Wintersmith site is by using its built-in web server. The process model. If you haven’t already, create a Heroku app:. To stay...

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tlvince | Blog | Tom Vincent

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Essays on hacking, travel and self-improvement. Building websites as a hobby since 2005, it was only a matter of time before I made one for myself. It has served as an ongoing experiment ever since. This post details its evolution, in reverse chronological order. The third iteration saw a major rewrite from Wordpress to toto. I wanted to see how far I could take minimalism: this iteration runs on toto, a tiny Ruby-based blog engine. Gone was the bloated MySQL database- PHP. And focuses purely on the.

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Periodical | Blog | Tom Vincent

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Essays on hacking, travel and self-improvement. Want to read online content on your Kindle without all the clutter? Looking for a command-line based alternative to web services like Instapaper and Klip.me? Reading using the Kindle is great. Reading via a web browser is often not. Websites like Instapaper. Et al are one way of bridging the gap. Instapaper in particular provides a very fluid and easy to use service: add some articles to your reading list, grant it access to your. Opting for accuracy over s...

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Gmail another little thing to fix | Blog | Tom Vincent

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Essays on hacking, travel and self-improvement. Gmail another little thing to fix. Here’s another little thing to fix. I’m always forgetting to hit. When I really mean to. How about defaulting the reply button to reply to all when there are multiple recipients? Now, there’ll inevitably be times when this won’t be what you want. One solution might be to add a weighting to conversations that contain multiple recipients in previous messages. What’s your suggestion?

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Pass the Salt | Blog | Tom Vincent

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Essays on hacking, travel and self-improvement. March has been a strange month. Understandably, the crisis in Japan dominated most daily conversation. “We’re so near yet so far away” one subdued friend murmured. I can echo that. Despite the physical distance, I feel no closer than I would if I’d been home; continually exposed to sensationalised media, somewhat rationalised through more factual, (carefully sourced) Internet reports. You could sense the hysteria. I feel so trapped, stuck here, helpless.

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Developers are users too! | Blog | Tom Vincent

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Essays on hacking, travel and self-improvement. Developers are users too! Is an oft cited, well grounded mantra in programming circles. However, us developers often forget about a principle user group:. This post details a typical, frustrating afternoon for a developer dealing with new technologies. Here’s the situation: I want to update Chromium’s. Traceback (most recent call last): . urllib.error.URLError: urlopen error [Errno 10060. A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not.

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The Route | Blog | Tom Vincent

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Essays on hacking, travel and self-improvement. My Southeast Asia tour: three nights (to ease in) in Kuala Lumpa (Malaysia, a great starting point for travel from Hong Kong) and a further three in neighbouring Penang before heading north into Thailand. Originally I hoped to take a sleeper train towards Phuket, but a last minute discovery of the tracks being bombed(! Only a week before — a. Inconvenience — means I’ll be flying into Bangkok for two nights. Was invaluable for this information.

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Destination Malaysia | Blog | Tom Vincent

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Essays on hacking, travel and self-improvement. Despite some problems early on, I write here, just beginning the first leg of the tour. 8220;Kuala Lumpa, Penang, Bangkok, Siam Reap, Phnom Penh” I explain to Anne, the aerospace auditor sitting next to me. “Angkor Wat! You’re going at a good time: while it’s still standing! For a year — curiously seem insignificant. It’s natural to become comfortable and if nothing else, travelling resets your comfort and superimposes challenge.

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Vim respect XDG | Blog | Tom Vincent

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Essays on hacking, travel and self-improvement. Base Directory Specification outlines a consistent standard for applications to write runtime files. Teaching. To respect it is non-trivial, so I’ve simplified the set up here. As your primary editor. Take active measures in keeping your. Is one of those “traditional” apps that stores it’s runtime files in a myriad of places. Thankfully, it’s customisable enough to solve this. As per my set up. Add the following to your. 8217;s location by exporting. Mentio...

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Post-PhotoRec Strategies | Blog | Tom Vincent

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Essays on hacking, travel and self-improvement. If you’ve ever been in the unfortunate situation where your hard disk fails beyond recognition ( like mine did. Then you’ve likely come across a low-level file recovery tool called PhotoRec. PhotoRec does a fantastic job of recovering files by matching byte headers with signatures of known file formats. At the time of writing, it recognises over 440 file formats. Which covers just about every format you’re likely to encounter day-to-day. Function that can c...