[2025-03-06] Bump version number to v25.3.PU0306

[2024-04-26] Fixing typos in MicroZig post

.github/workflows/jekyll.yml

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - name: Setup Ruby
-        uses: ruby/setup-ruby@ee2113536afb7f793eed4ce60e8d3b26db912da4 # v1.127.0
+        uses: ruby/setup-ruby@v1
         with:
           ruby-version: '3.1' # Not needed with a .ruby-version file
           bundler-cache: true # runs 'bundle install' and caches installed gems automatically

.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+_drafts/
+_site/

_config.yml

@@ -8,9 +8,10 @@ plugins:
 
 permalink: pretty
 baseurl: "/"
-url: "https://andrwcnln.github.io"
+url: "https://andrewconl.in"
 
 author: Andrew Conlin
+version: v25.3.PU0306
     
 defaults:
   # blog
@@ -18,7 +19,8 @@ defaults:
       path: "_posts/blog"
       type: posts
     values:
-      permalink: blog/:year/:month/:day/:title/
+      permalink: blog/:year/:title/
+      category: blog
       layout: post
   # til
   - scope:
@@ -28,6 +30,16 @@ defaults:
       permalink: til/:title/
       category: til
       layout: post
+  - scope:
+      path: "_posts/archive"
+      type: posts
+    values:
+      permalink: archive/:year/:title/
+      category: archive
+      layout: post
 
 feed:
-  category: til
+  categories: 
+    - blog
+    - til
+

_data/nav.yml

@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
-- name: ABOUT
+- name: blog
   link: /
-- name: BLOG
-  link: /blog
-- name: TIL
+  icon: book
+- name: til
   link: /til
-- name: PROJECTS
+  icon: globe
+- name: projects
   link: /projects
-- name: PHOTOS↗
+  icon: computer
+- name: photos↗
   link: http://andrewconlinphotography.co.uk
+  icon: film
 

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+<span class="growshrink">Be nice to each other!</span><br>
+© {{ site.author }} 2023-2025<br>
+All rights reverse engineered<br>
+Last updated: {{ site.time }}<br>
+<a href="https://git.andrewconl.in/andrew/site/src/tag/{{ site.version }}/">{{ site.version }}</a>
+</div>

_includes/header.html

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+<h1><a href="/">andrewconl.in</a> <span style="color: #A89984;font-size:medium">is tinkering</span></h1>
+<div>
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_includes/nav.html

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-            <h1 class="display-3 logo" style="font-weight:700;" id="logo">
-                <span style="color:#282828;background-color:#ebdbb2;">ac</span>
-            </h1>
-            {% for item in site.data.nav %}
-            <div class="col">
-                <h4>
-                    <a href="{{ item.link }}" class="text-decoration-none"> {{ item.name }} </a>
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-            {% endfor %}
-            <div class="col gy-2" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
-                <h4>
-                    <div>
-                        <span>
-                            {% for item in site.data.icons %}
-                            {% if item.icon != "letterboxd" %}
-                            <a rel="me" href="{{ item.link }}" target="_blank"><i class="{{ item.icon }}"></i></a>
-                            {% else %}
-                            <a href="{{ item.link }}" target="_blank"><img class="letterboxd" src="/assets/images/letterboxd.png"></a>
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-                            {% endfor %}
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_includes/postFooter.html

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+<hr><br>
+<div style="text-align: center;">
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+</div>

_layouts/default.html

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-    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
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     {% feed_meta %}
-    <title>andrew conlin</title>
-    <link href="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v6.0.0/css/all.css" rel="stylesheet">
-    <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.3.0-alpha1/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
+    <title>Andrew Conlin's blog</title>
     <link href="/assets/css/default.css" rel="stylesheet">
+    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
+    <script
+        async
+        defer
+        src="https://umami.andrewconl.in/script.js"
+        data-website-id="60900f9a-7491-495d-ad55-4c1c64f83c65"
+        data-do-not-track="true"
+    ></script>
+    <meta property="og:image" content="/assets/images/og.png">
 </head>
 
 <body>
-    <div class="container text-start">
-        {% include nav.html %}
-        <div class="col col-md-9" style="position: relative;top: 90px;">
-            <h1 style="font-weight: 500;">
-                {{ page.title }}
-            </h1>
-            <p>
-                {{ page.subtitle }}
-            </p>
+    <div class="container">
+        <div class="content">  
+            {% include header.html %}
             {{ content }}
-            <br>
-            <br>
+            {% include defaultFooter.html %}
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     </div>
-
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+</html>

_layouts/post.html

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-    <i class="fas fa-calendar"></i>&nbsp;{{ page.date | date_to_string }}
-    |
-    <i class="fas fa-clock"></i>&nbsp;{{ content | reading_time | pluralize: "minute" }}
-</p>
+<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="/">~</a> > <a href="/{{page.category}}">{{page.category}}</a> > <a href="">{{page.title}}</a><br></span>
+	<br>
+	<span style="font-family: Geist Mono;">
+    {{ page.date | date: "%Y-%m-%d" }}<br>
+    {{ content | reading_time | pluralize: "minute" }}
+	</span>
 <hr>
 
 {{ content }}
+{% include postFooter.html %}

_posts/archive/2023-01-14-musings-on-the-cinema.md

@@ -1,11 +1,5 @@
 ---
 title: Musings on the power of cinema
-categories:
-- thoughts
-tags:
-- journal
-- cinema
-- film
 ---
 
-I've realised that going to the cinema makes me sad; a quiet, contemplative melancholy. Ennui. No matter the film, something about the cinema experience is meditative for me. I always look at things differently in the aftermath; like my perception is temporarily knocked off balance. No, more like a fog is lifted for a while. I especially enjoy that time immediately after, the cycle home. I notice so many little details, scenes of beauty and of strange nostalgia. Like I'm finally seeing the world how it is, or rather, I begin to see rather than look, listen rather than hear. I feel as though these moments, however brief, are when I am truly in touch with myself. My soul, my inner essence. This is why I love the cinema. These moments of private melancholy, of temporary clarity. It is a feeling I cannot replicate anywhere else in my life.
+I've realised that going to the cinema makes me sad; a quiet, contemplative melancholy. Ennui. No matter the film, something about the cinema experience is meditative for me. I always look at things differently in the aftermath; like my perception is temporarily knocked off balance. No, more like a fog is lifted for a while. I especially enjoy that time immediately after, the cycle home. I notice so many little details, scenes of beauty and of strange nostalgia. Like I'm finally seeing the world how it is, or rather, I begin to see rather than look, listen rather than hear. I feel as though these moments, however brief, are when I am truly in touch with myself. My soul, my inner essence. This is why I love the cinema. These moments of private melancholy, of temporary clarity. It is a feeling I cannot replicate anywhere else in my life.

_posts/archive/2023-03-05-yuri-felsen-on-love.md

@@ -1,14 +1,9 @@
 ---
 title: Yuri Felsen on love
-categories:
-- quotes
-tags:
-- yuri felsen
-- love
 ---
 
 _"Like everyone, I have my own, maybe obsessive futile, maybe in some way authentic, vision: all of a sudden, I will imagine the entire homogenous world as it is revealed to us-the streets, the cities, the rooms, those intelligent beasts of a sad and predatory nature, who have learn to stand on their hind legs, who have built all this but are fated to disappear, who, despite this, still try to cling to something solid and lasting, still try to ward off the inevitability of death, who dreamt up fairy tales and, now that these stories have been disproved, are disconsolate - and for me the only means of defending myself from our terrible fate is love, my love - Lyolya. Without love we fall into a stupor or despair, it covers our naked animal essence; with the fear of death, with deliberate attempts to grab hold of some kind of eternity, one that is at once a mystery to us and yet devised by us, even the remains of love, even its very echo in music, imbues us with a semblance of fearlessness, dignity and the spiritual range to disregard death. Only by loving, by knowing about love, hoping for love, are we inspired and meaningfully engaged in life, able to banish the sovereignty of petty day-to-day cares, to stop waiting for the end to come"_
 
 **- Yuri Felsen (*trans. Bryan Karetnyk*)**
 
-From 'Deceit', first published in 1930 and translated to English in 2022.
+From 'Deceit', first published in 1930 and translated to English in 2022.

_posts/archive/2023-03-10-putting-thoughts-into-action.md

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 ---
 title: A measure of how easily thoughts can be translated to action
-category: blog
 ---
 
 Recently, I've been using multiple different languages and frameworks (both at work and personally) and I've been thinking about why I prefer some over others. Ultimately, I think it comes down to this:

_posts/archive/2023-04-29-links-arent-performances.md

@@ -1,15 +1,9 @@
 ---
 title: Links aren't performances
-categories:
-- links
-tags:
-- copyright
-- law
-- pluralistic
 ---
 _"For starters, it finds that publishing a link can be a "performance" of a copyrighted work, which meant that when Linkletter linked to the world-viewable Youtube files that Proctorio had posted, he infringed on copyright._
 
 _This is a perverse, even surreal take on copyright. The court rejects Linkletter's argument that even Youtube's terms of service warned Proctorio that publishing world-viewable material on its site constituted permission for people to link to and watch that material."_
 
 
-Via: [Pluralistic](https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/20/links-arent-performances/#free-ian-linkletter)
+Via: [Pluralistic](https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/20/links-arent-performances/#free-ian-linkletter)

_posts/archive/2023-12-03-001.md

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+---
+title: 001 - Philosophy, grief and macaques
+layout: post
+---
+
+I read a lot of stuff on the internet. A lot of it I don't enjoy, or it outright angers me. However, I frequently come across some diamonds in the rough: articles I really enjoy, useful tools and guides, a dearth of blog posts and the ever-present Wikipedia article.
+
+The problem that I face is that all of this consumption is ephemeral. I read an blog post, think to myself _Wow that was a really great read_ and then promptly forget all about it. To resolve this, I am starting (as of right now) a weekly-ish roundup of all the interesting stuff that I've read and found. It helps me keep track of all the stuff I have read, and also has the added benefit of sharing it with others. 
+
+Without further ado:
+
+- A [very interesting philosophy paper](https://consc.net/papers/extended.html) on the limits of the human mind. Where can the mind actually be said to end? How is a diary any different from your memories? This is especially potent when considered with the possibility of neural implants and the increasingly common cyborg-fetishism of the ultra-rich. I take extensive notes at work, and it is fun to consider whether they are actually a _part_ of me. 
+
+- A bit less heavy, this [blog post](https://jacobbartlett.substack.com/p/my-toddler-loves-planes-so-i-built) about a father who built his daughter her own radar app to spot planes together is both heartwarming and technically interesting. I recommend the [HN thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38435908) where I came across this too, it has some equally nice stories about technology and parenthood.
+
+- [This post](https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/) is in the same vein. A story of family's beloved app reaching the end of its life, and being manually revived (but only for the family). It has a nice sentiment about software on a small-scale, as something that can be personal, private, and free from corporate interests. 
+
+- [Here](https://d3ward.github.io/toolz/adblock.html) is a useful tool for checking how good your browser setup is for blocking ads and fingerprinting. Pretty happy with 99%, but room for improvement.
+
+- A fun little rabbit hole of a [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximate_measures) about approximate measurements. Apparently dash, pinch, smidgen, drop and hint are all quantifiable!
+
+- Another rather techy [blog post](https://luke.hsiao.dev/blog/housing-documentation/) about why you should write documentation for your house. This currently exists for my partner and I as a couple of binders filled with notes, instruction booklets and takeaway menus, but I am looking forward to a proper setup whenever I get around to it.
+
+- [This](https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/10/16/were-more-ghosts-than-people/) is a very interesting piece on religion and loss, explored through a relationship to a virtual character. Thought-provoking stuff, especially when confonting how we strive for control in our lives even with death always looming over us. I will certainly never play _Red Dead Redemption 2_ in the same way.
+
+- And finally (for a happier ending): enjoy [these excellent photos](https://time.com/3148/these-monkeys-are-having-the-best-spa-day-ever/) of Japanese macaques in a hot spring. I especially like this [almost biblical one](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/japanese-macaque-snow-monkeys-spa-day-3.jpg).
+
+Thanks for reading!<br>
+A.

_posts/archive/2023-12-10-002.md

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+---
+title: 002 - Trains, iPods and plagiarism
+layout: post
+---
+
+Hello again. Lots more interesting stuff this week, so I'll jump right in.
+
+- [This](https://social.hackerspace.pl/@q3k/111528162462505087) is a fascinating Mastodon thread. A very impressive reverse engineering of some train software, showing that it was deliberately designed to brick itself when being fixed at third-party repair workshops. Capitalism makes people do silly things.
+
+- [A mammoth article](https://emilygorcenski.com/post/making-god/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) by Emily Gorcenski, dissecting the recent A"I"[^1] "revolution". It is meticulously researched, and gets deep into the motivations behind the grift.
+
+- Next up, [a technical breakdown](https://www.cameronmacleod.com/blog/how-does-shazam-work) of the inner workings of Shazam. This is always something that I have been amazed by, but never looked into the technology behind it. Who knew that Shazam used to be a phone number you could call? I'm certainly too young for that.
+
+- Something a bit different: I learned this week that you can play (online!) chess from you command line, through `telnet` and [freechess.org](freechess.org). Just run `telnet freechess.org 5000` and play some games. I love things like this, and that they continue to exist.
+
+- [A tool for easily dithering images](https://seleb.github.io/ordered-dither-maker/), very cool.
+
+- I learned this week about the [Rockbox project](https://www.rockbox.org/), which is custom software for mp3 players (inlcuding iPods!). [Here is a thread](https://mastodon.social/@bagder/111538350617290554) from Daniel Stenberg about how the iPod was "rockboxed".
+
+- I was too quick to use "mammoth" earlier. For the final link today, [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ) is a ***mammoth*** deep dive into the problem of plagiarism on YouTube. Some incredible stuff in here, and it is very interesting throughout, despite being almost 4 (four) hours long.
+
+Thanks for reading!<br>
+A.
+
+<hr>
+
+[^1]: It is artificial, but certainly not intelligence. Just statistics.

_posts/archive/2023-12-18-003.md

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+---
+title: 003 - Bryan, Cory and Mickey
+layout: post
+---
+
+I've been pretty busy this week, so a little shorter than usual (although I still found plenty of time for some [Cory Doctorow](https://pluralistic.net/).
+
+- First up, with no exaggeration, the [Greatest Blog Post of All Time (so far)](https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/). This is a full and thorough breakdown of the inner workings of a mechanical watch; something I had a vague interest in before this, but am now fully and whole-heartedly invested in. The content alone is enough to get me to recommend it, but it is paired with countless interactive animations and diagrams, which take this thing to another level. And that's before you realise that they were all written, *by hand*, in OpenGL. Amazing stuff.
+
+- Next up, something amazing in a different way: [the Perseverance rover has now been active for 1000 days!](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67700437)
+
+- Apologies for the YouTube link: [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQfJi7rjuEk) we have a great talk from Bryan Cantrill about so-called "AI doomers", who genuinely believe that Chat-GPT is going to kill us all. Bryan breaks down this idea and why we should take it seriously, as well as repudiating some of the main "doomer" talking points (but in like, a fun way).
+
+- [This man](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/dec/17/i-never-thought-i-would-get-this-far-london-man-runs-365-marathons-in-365-days) has just completed 365 marathons in 365 days. An absolutely incredible achievement, and I hope he breaks the record. It is all for charity and he seems like a good guy.
+
+Last up, a couple of links from Cory Doctorow (I told you I'd been reading him!): 
+
+- ["If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"](https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/). This is a great breakdown of the problems that now seems to be present in every software medium: the idea that you don't own your games/music/films, you are merely renting them. 
+
+- [It all started with a mouse.](https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/15/mouse-liberation-front/) On January 1st 2024, Steamboat Willie (the first Mickey Mouse cartoon) *finally* enters the public domain. As Cory talks about, it is high time that Disney contributes back to the public domain space after benefitting from it for so long. I can't wait for all the legally-prtoecte memes.
+
+And that's all for this week.
+
+Thanks for reading!<br>
+A.

_posts/archive/2024-01-09-004.md

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+---
+title: 004 - Obfuscation, dial-up and tiny chess
+layout: post
+---
+
+I am back after the winter break, and glad to say that I did a whole lot of reading over the holidays. I have a **swathe** of links for you, covering a whole range of topics and interests. Let's jump in!
+
+- First up is [this rather demoralising article](https://www.404media.co/facebook-is-being-overrun-with-stolen-ai-generated-images-that-people-think-are-real/) about the fake image epidemic plaguing Facebook and the internet as a whole. I've resisted the so-called "AI revolution" from the beginning, and stuff like this is exactly why. On a better note, [404 Media](https://www.404media.co) are doing some great reporting on this and similar topics, check them out.
+
+- I finally found time for [this ~30 minute Tom Scott video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqRREz0iBes) about the world's largest optical telescope, and it was just as good as I expected. So many interesting insights in here, but my favourite was the way the mirrors are created. ***Literally atomising*** aluminium and spraying it in a fine mist. Crazy stuff.
+
+- [This](https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2023-December/033317.html) is an interesting (and kinda hilarious) email exchange from the Vostok Antarctic Research Base, about changing their timezone.
+
+- [More great reporting](https://www.404media.co/laion-datasets-removed-stanford-csam-child-abuse/) from 404 Media on the terrible and awful effects of "moving fast and breaking things".
+
+- [This](https://ethanzuckerman.com/2023/12/22/how-big-is-youtube/) is a great analysis of the current size of YouTube (*way* bigger than I expected, even though I knew it was huge). It seems insane that the number of videos appears to have almost doubled from 2021 to 2023 (!!). This also led me down the interesting Wikipedia rabbit hole of the [German tank problem](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem)
+
+- This one is a little late, due to the Christmas theme, but it is worth it. I highly recommend compiling and running this [horrifying C code](https://udel.edu/~mm/xmas/xmas.c) and observing the output. There is a breakdown [here](https://udel.edu/~mm/xmas/), but sometimes it's better to bask in ignorance.
+
+- If you phone [this number](https://talkpaperscissors.com/), you will get matched up against a random opponent to play Rock Paper Scissors. I haven't tried it myself (it requires a US number), but I am interested to hear your thoughts!
+
+- If you know me, then you know I love people on the internet using their strange, domain-specific knowledge to implement a ridiculous idea. [Dial-up over a Discord Call](https://www.lilysthings.org/blog/discord-dialup/) certainly ticks those boxes.
+
+- Similar to the above, [this](https://www.fourbardesign.com/2020/10/diy-espresso.html?m=1) is a wildly impressive blog post about DIY-ing a pocket-sized espresso machine.
+
+- If you are bored and have a browser handy, I recently found out that PICO-8 games are playable in the browser [over on itch.io](https://itch.io/games/platform-web/tag-pico-8). POOM to your heart's content!
+
+- [An interesting look](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/9780/did-english-ever-have-a-formal-version-of-you) at the English language, and whether we ever had a formal version of you.
+
+- Next up, [a fascinating breakdown](https://forrestheller.com/Apollo-11-Computer-vs-USB-C-chargers.html) of how the Apollo 11 guidance computer compares to the CPUs inside everyday phone chargers.
+
+- If you are interested in writing code (or learning to), [this is a great list](https://austinhenley.com/blog/challengingprojects.html) of challenging projects for you to try.
+
+- [A nice breakdown](https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/the-ides-we-had-30-years-ago-and) of old IDEs, coupled with a bit of consternation about the things that we have lost since then.
+
+- [Here](https://dubroy.com/blog/cold-blooded-software/) is a nice sentiment about writing software which will continue to work (long after it stops being maintained) along with a great story. I especially like the bit about "boring technology".
+ 
+- On the lighter side, [here is a humourous write up](https://andreasjhkarlsson.github.io/jekyll/update/2023/12/27/4-billion-if-statements.html) about creating a script to tell if a number is odd or even, one number at a time.
+
+- [This is an excellent video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne40a5LkK6A), covering Sebastian Lague's tiny chess bot championship. Many interesting insights and tidbits throughout, and it has definitely inpsired me to get into [chess programming](https://www.chessprogramming.org/Getting_Started).
+
+- [Some thoughts from Simon Willison](https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jan/2/escalating-streaks/) on motivation through the tracking of streaks.
+
+- And last but not least, rounding out the list we have another [article from 404 Media](https://www.404media.co/13-year-old-becomes-first-person-to-ever-beat-tetris/), about the first person to quote-on-quote "beat" Tetris.
+
+Phew! We made it. Thanks for reading if you stuck around. I am going to attempt to be more consistent with these throughout 2024, but as always, no promises. 
+
+A.

_posts/archive/2024-01-29-005.md

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+---
+title: 005 - ccTLDs, BBC Basic and 6174
+layout: post
+---
+
+Hello again! It's been a little while, but plenty of interesting stuff has built up for me to share.
+
+- First up, a couple of posts about the dangers and pitfalls of ccTLDs, and the problems they can cause:
+    - [.af](https://queer.af/@postmaster/111733741786950083)
+    - [.io](https://www.beep.blog/io/)
+
+- A(nother) [great blog post](https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/12/youre-holding-it-wrong/) from Cory Doctorow, this time about the cult of Apple. I have no idea how he pumps out such high quality so quickly. I can barely stick to one post a week!
+
+- Molly White has shared the [in-depth process](https://citationneeded.news/substack-to-self-hosted-ghost/) for switching away from Substack, after everything that has happened with that site. Very useful if you are in a similar situation, but worth a skim anyways just to see what good technical writing looks like. And as always, I am pro-self-hosting whenever possible.
+
+- In a similar vein, I really enjoyed this [article from Android Authority](https://www.androidauthority.com/offline-smart-home-3398608/) about creating an offline smart home using [HomeAssistant](https://www.home-assistant.io/). This has always been something that I've wanted to do, maybe I'll get around to it this year! [he lied].
+
+- This is a [really interesting story from ArsTechnica](https://arstechnica.com/features/2024/01/how-a-27-year-old-busted-the-myth-of-bitcoins-anonymity/) about how the myth of Bitcoin's anonymity was busted.
+
+- There is always something that I have seen during the week that really amazes me when I make these posts, which is rather inspiring. This week that honour goes to [raytracing in BBC Basic](https://mastodon.me.uk/@bbcmicrobot/111762132859648345). I mean, need I say more?
+
+- If you liked the above, then check out the other amazing BBC Basic creations over at [bbcmicrobot.com](https://www.bbcmicrobot.com/). This is fully rendered from a BBC Micro emulator *in the browser*!
+
+- [6174](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6174).
+
+- Yet another [ridiculous StackExchange deep dive](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/395382/which-word-begins-with-y-and-looks-like-an-axe-in-this-picture), this time into the pictures on child's alphabet ball (it is better than it sounds).
+
+- Last but not least, a titan of the internet, [David Mills](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Mills) sadly passed away recently. If you want some information on just how important his contributions to the early internet were, this [New Yorker article](https://archive.ph/2fw9A) (archive link) is a great read.
+
+A.

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+layout: post
+---
+
+Back again with some more links to save and share.
+
+- First up, [this nice wee blog post](https://laplab.me/posts/whats-that-touchscreen-in-my-room/) about deciphering the meaning of a mysterious, wall-mounted touchscreen.
+
+- For all you wiki folks out there, here is a [Netflix style front-end](https://wikidata-todo.toolforge.org/wikiflix/#/) which collates all of the freely available movies from the Wikimedia commons.
+
+- Anyone who knows me knows I love a good coffee, and especially the black tar spewed out from a Moka pot. [This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VESMU7JfVHU) is a neutron scan of a Moka pot boiling, allowing you to see what happens inside. There is also [this wonderful site](https://www.scanofthemonth.com/scans/coffee) with its highly detailed scans of various coffee makers. (I can see Scan of the Month featuring heavily in future Weeklinks.)
+
+- Back in [Weeklinks 002](https://andrewconl.in/weeklinks/002/), I shared a Mastodon thread about breaking DRM in Polish trains. Well, the folks behind it have just recently done a full breakdown presentation, which is available [here](https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_trains).
+
+- [A deep dive](https://cohost.org/cathoderaydude/post/1228730-taking-the-deepest-p) into some increadibly niche OS tomfoolery from the late 2000s.
+
+- I've always been interested in small programs, and the amazing things that can be achieved in just a few kB. [This](https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/) takes that idea 1 step further, with an entire song and music video programmed in only 256 bytes on a Commodore 64. Truly unbelieveable stuff.
+
+- [A sign of things to come](https://bc.ctvnews.ca/air-canada-s-chatbot-gave-a-b-c-man-the-wrong-information-now-the-airline-has-to-pay-for-the-mistake-1.6769454): a Canadian airline has tried to claim that it is not legally responsible for the information provided by its online chatbot. Obviously this is a blatant falsehood, but I am glad to see it struck down by the judge. Let's hope that future precedents also side with common sense.
+
+- [This is a cool satellite image](https://universeodon.com/@nantel/111912809026371850) of the ongoing eruption in Iceland. The lava is edited in, but an amazing image nonetheless.
+
+- Finally, [a good ole Simpsons joke, now officially in the dictionary](https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/what-does-cromulent-mean).
+
+A.

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+title: Writing an OLED display driver in MicroZig
+---
+
+**Update 2025-03-06** / There is now an SDD1306 driver available in the [official MicroZig repository](https://github.com/ZigEmbeddedGroup/microzig/blob/main/drivers/display/ssd1306.zig).
+
+# # Beginnings
+Recently, I have been messing around with a Rapsberry Pi Pico. Initially, I started out with MicroPython, as this is what most of the documentation for working with the Pico uses. However, this was honestly a little boring, as I seem to end up doing every project in Python. I wanted something a little more engaging for my brain, a little *spicier*. It's Friday afternoon!
+
+This is where Zig comes in. I have been seeing a lot of buzz around Zig as a language. It aims to be a drop-in replacement/improvement for C, and the interoperability that it provides with C libraries really intrigued me.
+
+However, I wanted my hobbyist hijinx to be the sort of "dabble in a new language, try out some different things" sort of fun, rather than the looming "figure out how to create Zig executables that can run on and drive embedded systems" sort of hell. Luckily for me, some wonderful folks have done the heavy lifting in this department: [MicroZig](https://github.com/ZigEmbeddedGroup/microzig).
+
+This project is great. It is still in the early-ish stages, with full support only available for (you guessed it) the RP2040. But things are moving fast, and the project is actively developed.
+
+This is exactly what I needed, so I jumped right in. Following along with the [Raspberry Pi examples](https://github.com/ZigEmbeddedGroup/microzig/tree/main/examples/raspberrypi-rp2040), I quickly had some working code for flashing some LEDs. Cool!
+
+At this point, I remembered about a small OLED screen that I had, perfect for exactly this kind of tinkering. Time to get to work on on driving this bad boy. As is always the first step with hardware, I went off on a datasheet hunt. It took me an embarassingly long time to find, but I eventually figured out that I was the proud owner of an [SDD1306 OLED screen](https://cdn-shop.adafruit.com/datasheets/SSD1306.pdf). (This is the datasheet for the 128x64 version, but I have the 128x32).
+
+Now, as datasheets go, this is pretty good. We have all of the available commands, and instructions for how to write to the display RAM (for showing stuff on the screen). But how do we send these commands? This is also in the datasheet: [I2C](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%C2%B2C). There is a brief explanation in there about what the device is expecting, but I needed to do some more digging, as this is my first time dabbling directly in I2C communication.
+
+After hunting around a bit, I had another look in the [MicroZig examples](https://github.com/ZigEmbeddedGroup/microzig/tree/main/examples/raspberrypi-rp2040), and found something very useful: there is an [I2C driver](https://github.com/ZigEmbeddedGroup/microzig/blob/main/examples/raspberrypi-rp2040/src/i2c_bus_scan.zig) included as part of the RP2040 HAL. The example that they provided scans for available I2C devices, and prints their addresses over UART. This would be ideal as a starting point, if I could just read the UART. Normally, when connected to my laptop, I could just print these values via serial over USB. However, this is an [exisiting issue](https://github.com/ZigEmbeddedGroup/microzig/issues/161) in the MicroZig repo, and is currently not supported. At this point, I ordered a UART to USB adapter, and resigned to leave the project alone until it arrived.
+
+...
+
+...
+
+...
+
+But where is the fun in that?! Something about this project wouldn't let me just put it down for a couple of days, so while I waited for my delivery I started trying to communicate with the screen regardless. How hard could it be?
+
+# # Hard stuff
+
+I started out by trying to just send commands to the screen. I knew the default address of the device from the datasheet (0x3C), and started firing commands over I2C to try and provoke any sort of reaction. The MicroZig driver allowed me to this super easily. Just setup the I2C device, and then send data using the `write_blocking` function. I put the sending code inside a little function to make things easier to parse:
+
+```
+const i2c0 = i2c.num(0);
+_ = i2c0.apply(.{
+    .clock_config = rp2040.clock_config,
+    .scl_pin = gpio.num(21),
+    .sda_pin = gpio.num(20),
+    .baud_rate = 400000,
+});
+```
+```
+pub fn send(bytes: []const u8) !void {
+    const a: i2c.Address = @enumFromInt(0x3C);
+    _ = i2c0.write_blocking(a, bytes) catch {
+        led.put(1);
+    };
+}
+```
+
+The SDD1306, stood firm, resolutely denying me even a single pixel. There is no feedback for any of this, except a single flashing LED to let me know my code is running. I am shooting from the hip (and missing).
+
+It was at this point that I became really impressed with Zig's compilation, and in particular the caching. As part of this process, I was messing around a lot with my code, and then building and loading onto the Pico with the following command:
+
+```
+zig build; picotool load -x zig-out/firmware/pico_i2c.uf2
+```
+
+I became convinced that something was going wrong at this step; partly because I only had minimal feedback for my loaded changes, but also because the compilation was *so damn fast*. I would make significant changes to the code, and it would rebuild and load onto the board almost instantly. Even though I was seeing the changes I made reflected on the board through the LED, I still occasionally deleted the zig-out and zig-cache folders just to be absolutely *sure* that things were rebuilding properly. But no, it really is just that fast.  
+
+Back to the display: in order to send a command, you must find send a command control byte (0x00). This prepares the screen to act on the next byte that it receives. For example: sending 0x00, followed by 0xA5, should turn the entire display on:
+
+![A table from a datasheet, containing the following text in the "Description" column: A4h, X0=0b: Resume to RAM content display
+(RESET)
+Output follows RAM content
+A5h, X0=1b: Entire display ON
+Output ignores RAM content](/assets/images/picozig.png)
+
+This was definitely not happening, and I was definitely missing something.
+
+So, I began searching around for other driver implementations. Luckily, this is a very popular OLED display for these kind of projects, so there was plenty of options. The first one I found was the source code for the [Adafruit MicroPython driver](https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Python_SSD1306). This provided me with some reassurance that I was on the right path with the commands that I was sending, and also provided me with some useful info about the differences between the 128x64 and the 128x32, as I still wasn't able to find the specific datasheet for my model. Most importantly however, it provided we with some initailisation commands. Each of the subclasses contained a method `_initialize`, which performed a long list of commands to, funnily enough, initialise the display.
+
+This was a big breakthrough! All I have to do is send the initialisation commands, and my screen will be working perfectly! Well, it wasn't to be. I dutifully entered all of these commands and... nothing happened. My screen stared me down yet again, blank as ever.
+
+Not to let this drag me down, I kept searching, this time focusing in on the initialisation commands. I found [this repo](https://github.com/Matiasus/SSD1306), written in C. I briefly messed around with linking this C code to my Zig project, but got bogged down with getting it to play nice with MicroZig. However, the repo did provide me with some fantastic information: a full flowchart for the initialisation commands, and the source for it. Which was (you guessed it again), the datasheet that I already had. If RTFM applies to software, it applies 1000 times over to hardware[^1].
+
+Surely I was almost there? Well, almost yes, but not quite. Matiasus's commands didn't seem to work for me either. Looking back, this was probably a small typo or something on my end, but it is difficult to notice when you are staring at a bunch of hex.
+
+The thing that made the breakthrough for me was [this holy grail of a blog post](https://nnarain.github.io/2020/12/01/SSD1306-OLED-Display-Driver-using-I2C.html). Just exactly what I needed at exactly the right time. It calmly and thoroughly explains the process of communicating with the display, as well as the initialisation. I was mostly right in what I interpreted from the datasheet, but it is always nice to have things confirmed by someone who clearly understands this better than you. This led me to the following initialisation commands:
+
+```
+const INIT = [_]u8{
+    CONTROL_COMMAND, 0xAE,
+    CONTROL_COMMAND, 0xA8, 0x1F,
+    CONTROL_COMMAND, 0xD3, 0x00,
+    CONTROL_COMMAND, 0x40,
+    CONTROL_COMMAND, 0xA0,
+    CONTROL_COMMAND, 0xC0,
+    CONTROL_COMMAND, 0xDA, 0x02,
+    CONTROL_COMMAND, 0x81, 0x7F,
+    CONTROL_COMMAND, 0xA4,
+    CONTROL_COMMAND, 0xD5, 0x80,
+    CONTROL_COMMAND, 0x8D, 0x14,
+    CONTROL_COMMAND, 0xAF
+};
+```
+
+With Natesh's blog post by my side, I finally, **finally** managed to get the display to do ***something***:
+
+![An image of a small OLED display, showing random noise over most of the screen, with a solid block of on pixels in the top left](/assets/images/picozig-1.jpg)
+
+Look at that. Glorious.[^2]
+
+Now treating Natesh with the kind of reverence they deserve, I followed their advice to try and turn the entire display on. This just involves writing ones to the entire display buffer. But, we first have to set up the device to expect this data. 
+
+Firstly, you choose the desired adressing mode for the display RAM, so that your pixels show up where you expect them to. The display is split into 4 horizontal "pages", each 8 bits tall and 128 bits wide. You can address in one of three ways: page-wise, page-wise with automatic wrapping to the next page, and column-wise (also with automatic wrapping). 
+
+I settled for page-wise with automatic wrapping, as this is easiest to align in my head with physical writing[^3]. Things are slightly complicated by the page structure, as you set all 8 height-wise bits of a given page with a single byte, but this doesn't matter for just filling up the display.
+
+The next thing is to set the range of pages and columns to draw to. This is useful for more complicated drawings and designs, but my range is just pages 0 -> 3 and columns 0 -> 127, as we are filling the entire display.
+
+Once I got this all sorted out, I had my first attempt at filling the buffer. To nobody's surprise, this didn't work: 
+
+![An image of a small OLED display, with alternating stripes of black and white pixels](/assets/images/picozig-2.jpg)
+
+However, after a little bit of tweaking (and a hefty load of jank) I managed to get things working[^4]:
+
+![An image of a small OLED display, completely filled with white pixels](/assets/images/picozig-3.jpg)
+
+Now this is progress! Finally, after about a day and a half of trying, the device is showing what I want it to. 
+
+The next (and final) step of this process is to display an image on the screen. This feels like a big enough achievement that I can safely let my brain rest. I chose the following image as it will hopefully be clearly identifiable in only 4096 pixels[^5]:
+
+![An photograph of a real, black minivan](/assets/images/van10.jpeg)
+
+I used [this tool](http://javl.github.io/image2cpp/) to convert it into a byte array. I copied this into the code, covered my eyes, and hit enter...
+
+![The same van, displayed on a small OLED screen](/assets/images/picozig-4.jpg)
+
+Success! After quite a bit of tinkering, I can now display images on my little OLED screen. And, to top it all off, I got this working just before the UART-to-USB adapter dropped through my letterbox :).
+
+# # Conclusion
+I really enjoyed this as a weekend project. Zig is a fun language to work with, and the MicroZig team have done a great job getting things working on embedded devices. It was *immensely* satisfying to break through and get things working, by slowly figuring things out. I was of course helped by some good repositories, and one fantastic blog post (thanks Natesh!). This is a good takeaway: if you are working on something, anything, write about it! Firstly because I want to read it, but also because it will undoubtedly help someone down the line.
+
+The code for this project [is available here](https://github.com/andrwcnln/picozig) if you want to use this as a starting point for your own adventures. I have not added anything since writing this blog post, but I will likely come back to it at some point (once I get through every other project!).
+
+<hr>
+
+[^1]: In my defence, it was on page 64 (sixty-four) of a 65 page manual
+
+[^2]: I believe that all of these pixels were actually set by me, when I was firing commands at the device. Some accidental abstract art.
+
+[^3]: Like, with a pen.
+
+[^4]: To be honest, I am still not exactly sure what fixed things, or what was even going wrong in the first place.
+
+[^5]: And because I like it.

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+category: til
+layout: post
+---
+
+I have have been using Alacritty as my terminal emulator for the past few months, and I am absolutely loving it so far. However, I have recently run into an issue while trying to use RVM (Ruby Version Manager).
+
+When running the command:
+
+```
+rvm use <$RUBY_VERSION>
+```
+
+I get the following error message:
+
+```
+RVM is not a function, selecting rubies with 'rvm use ...' will not work.
+
+You need to change your terminal emulator preferences to allow login shell.
+Sometimes it is required to use `/bin/bash --login` as the command.
+Please visit https://rvm.io/integration/gnome-terminal/ for an example.
+```
+
+So, we need to be in a login shell. Unfortunately, Alacritty does not have a settings GUI [like gnome-terminal](https://rvm.io/integration/gnome-terminal) and similar, and after thorough investigation I couldn't find a way to set this up through Alacritty. We need a different solution.
+
+Luckily, this is possible through the shell itself. You can open a login shell by running the following command (press Ctrl+D to return to the interactive shell):
+```
+bash --login
+```
+This also works with `zsh`, or Z-shell:
+```
+zsh --login
+```
+Unfortunately for all you fishers out there, I couldn't find a way to to this with `fish`. If you know how, [send me an email!](mailto:andrew@andrewconl.in)
+
+There are some drawbacks to this method.
+1. You will have to do this every time you want to use RVM.
+2. Commands such as `rvm use` only persist in the login shell, so you will have to stay in there if you want to use RVM, and the version of Ruby that you have selected. I toyed about with using `zsh --login -c "rvm use <$RUBY_VERSION>"`, but this will immediately return you to the interactive shell without any of the changes that you made.

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-<p>This resolved the error! However (as is always the case), this only meant I got a shiny new error instead:</p>
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-<div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>docker-compose exec -u www-data nextcloud-app php occ files:scan --all
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-<p><strong>Note: replace nextcloud-app with the name of your Nextcloud container. Also, this command must be run from the directory of your Nextcloud docker-compose.yml</strong></p>
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-<p>….aaaaaand, <em>voila!</em> The command runs, the files are scanned and everything is up to date.</p>
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-<p>Recently, my partner gave a great idea for utilising my old Kindle: generate a “newspaper” each morning from a bunch of RSS feeds, and email it to the Kindle using “Send-to-Kindle” feature (a blog post about this project is in the works).</p>
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-<p>I loved this idea, and thought it would be no problem to get a Python script up and running periodically on my Raspberry Pi home server using <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">cron</code>. However, I ran into various issues along the way (some of which were not so easy to resolve), so I’m collating all the configuration changes I made in the hopes that it will be useful to someone one day. You can find the full repo for this project <a href="https://github.com/andrwcnln/watchman">here</a>, and I have also included my Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml and crontab at the end of this TIL.</p>
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-<h2 id="1-double-check-the-user">1. Double check the user</h2>
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-<p>A lot of problems with <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">cron</code> come down to user privileges. Each user has their own <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">crontab</code>, and then there is the system-wide <em>root</em> <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">crontab</code>. The first issue I ran into with creating a <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">cron</code> job inside a container was that Docker created the crontab as a non-root user. This issue presented itself to me when I tried to run the following command, to  list the current cronjobs in the Docker container:</p>
-<div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>docker-compose exec container-name crontab -l
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-<p>This returned the following output:</p>
-<div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>no crontab for root
-</code></pre></div></div>
-<p>Now, it is not necessarily a problem to have non-root <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">cron</code> jobs, but just make absolutely certain that you are creating the jobs with the user you expect. For me, I wanted to run as <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">root</code>, so I added to following line to my docker-compose.yml:</p>
-<div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>user: root
-</code></pre></div></div>
-<p>Now, the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">root</code> user will be used when building your Docker image and the created <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">crontab</code> will be where you expect.</p>
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-<h2 id="2-missing-dependencies">2. Missing dependencies</h2>
-<p>When <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">cron</code> calls your Python script, you may run into issues with <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">ModuleNotFoundError</code> or <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">ImportError</code>, where Python cannot find your installed packages. This is because <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">cron</code> does not have access to your system environment variables, including the Python path. You can resolve most of these errors with imports by adding the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">PYTHONPATH</code> environment variable to your <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">crontab</code>. This should be the path to your <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">site-packages</code> folder, something like this:</p>
-<div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>PYTHONPATH=/usr/bin/local/python3
-</code></pre></div></div>
-<p>You may also need to add a shebang (<code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">#!</code>) to your Python script to direct <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">cron</code> to the correct version. You can find the Python location with one of the following commands:</p>
-<div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>which python
-which py
-which python3
-</code></pre></div></div>
-<p><em>NOTE</em>: These commands must be performed in your Docker container when it is up and running. In <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">docker-compose</code> syntax this would be the following (with the name of your container instead of <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">container-name</code>):</p>
-<div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>docker-compose exec container-name which python3
-</code></pre></div></div>
-<p>You can then add this to the top of your Python script, as follows:</p>
-<div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>#!/usr/bin/local/python3
-</code></pre></div></div>
-<h2 id="3-still-missing-dependencies">3. Still missing dependencies</h2>
-<p>Some modules will still run into errors even when the PYTHONPATH variable has been set. In particular, I ran into problems with <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">reportlab</code> and <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Pillow/PIL</code>:</p>
-<div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>ImportError: cannot import name '_imaging' from 'PIL'
-</code></pre></div></div>
-<p>This was solved by adding the system PATH to the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">crontab</code> as well. The system path is included in the default <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">crontab</code> that is created when you first run <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">crontab -e</code>:</p>
-<div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
-</code></pre></div></div>
-<p>Therefore, it is a good idea to include it if you are making a new <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">crontab</code> to make sure <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">cron</code> can find everything it needs to.</p>
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-<h2 id="4-check-relative-paths-in-python">4. Check relative paths in Python</h2>
-<p>By default, <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">cron</code> runs from the default root path. Therefore, both your call to Python in your <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">crontab</code> and the filepaths within Python should either be relative to <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">root</code> (i.e <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">/main.py</code> rather than <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">main.py</code>) or just use full paths instead.</p>
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-<h2 id="5-failed-to-build-wheel-and-related-errors">5. “Failed to build wheel” and related errors</h2>
-<p>This error is related to Python inside a Docker container rather than <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">cron</code>. However, someone might still find it useful. When you install your <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">requirements.txt</code>, you may encounter errors such as</p>
-<div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>legacy-install-failure
-error: command '/usr/bin/gcc' failed with exit code 1
-fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
-</code></pre></div></div>
-<p>I was able to resolve these by adding <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">python3-dev</code>, <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">wheel</code> and <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Cmake</code> to my <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">requirements.txt</code>. These are sometimes required when packages include other binaries or need to compile other code when installed.</p>
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-<h2 id="6-other-useful-tips">6. Other useful tips</h2>
-<ul>
-  <li><a href="https://crontab.guru">crontab.guru</a> is a great resource for checking <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">cron</code> syntax</li>
-  <li>Installing vim/nano in your Docker container to make the debugging stage easier. This is especially useful for changing your crontab to run much more frequently, or adding debugging messages etc., when the container is up.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>I hope this helped you resolve some errors! I’ve included my Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml and crontab below if you want to set up a similar project or adjust your own files. The full repo is also available <a href="https://github.com/andrwcnln/watchman">here</a>.</p>
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-<p>Dockerfile:</p>
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-COPY . .
-RUN python3.11 -m pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
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-RUN touch /var/log/cron.log
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-RUN apt-get update \  
-&amp;&amp; apt-get install cron -y
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-RUN chmod +x main.py
-
-RUN crontab crontab 
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-CMD cron -f
-</code></pre></div></div>
-<p>docker-compose.yml:</p>
-<div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>version: "2.4"
-
-services:
-  watchman:
-    platform: "linux/arm64/v8"
-    image: watchman:latest
-    container_name: watchman
-    restart: always
-    user: root
-    build:
-      context: build
-      dockerfile: Dockerfile
-</code></pre></div></div>
-<p>crontab:</p>
-<div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
-PYTHONPATH=/usr/bin/local/python3
-15 7 * * * python3 /main.py &gt;&gt; /var/log/cron.log 2&gt;&amp;1
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+<ul style="list-style-type:none;margin:0;padding:0;">
+  {% for post in site.posts %}
+  {% assign category = post.category %}
+  {% if category == 'archive' %}
+    <li>
+		<p><span style="font-family: Geist Mono">{{ post.date | date: "%Y-%m-%d" }} / </span><a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></p>
+    </li>
+  {% endif %}
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 }
 
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+}
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+    height: auto;
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+}
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+}
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+}
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+        height: auto;
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+}
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 }
 
 pre {
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     padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
     border-radius: 10px;
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+}
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+	text-decoration: none;
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+}
+
+a:hover {
+	color: #000000;
+	background: #FABD2F;
+	text-decoration: none;
+	border-bottom: 3px solid #FABD2F;
+	border-radius: 2px;
 }
 
 img {
-    display: block;
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-}
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-img.letterboxd {
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-    width:20px;
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     margin-left: auto;
     margin-right: auto;
-}
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-img.letterboxd {
-    margin-left: 0;
-}
+    display: block;
 }
 
 ::selection {
-    background-color: #ebdbb2;
-    color: #282828;
+  color: #000000;
+  background: #FABD2F;
+}
+
+span.growshrink {
+  display: inline-block;
+  animation-duration: 5s;
+  animation-name: grow-shrink;
+  animation-iteration-count: infinite;
+}
+
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+  25%,
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+
+  50% {
+    scale: 110%;
+    color: #FABD2F;
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-title: LATEST POSTS <span style="font-size:20px;"><a href="/feed.xml"><i class="fas fa-rss-square"></i></a></span>
-subtitle: all the posts, in reverse chronological. there is an atom feed above.
-permalink: /blog/
+title: blog
+backlink: false
 ---
 
-
-<hr>
+<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="/">~</a> > <a href="">{{page.title}}</a><br></span>
 <ul style="list-style-type:none;margin:0;padding:0;">
   {% for post in site.posts %}
   {% assign category = post.category %}
   {% if category == 'blog' %}
     <li>
-      <h4><a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></h4>
-      <div style="font-family:Fira Code;font-weight:500;">
-        <i class="fas fa-calendar"></i>&nbsp;{{ post.date | date_to_string }}
-      </div>
-      {{ post.content | strip_html | truncatewords: 30 }}
-      <br>
-      <br>
+		<p><span style="font-family: Geist Mono">{{ post.date | date: "%Y-%m-%d" }} / </span><a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></p>
     </li>
   {% endif %}
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+Email: <a href="mailto:andrew@andrewconl.in">andrew@andrewconl.in</a><br>
+Mastodon: <a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.scot/@andrwcnln">andrwcnln@mastodon.scot</a><br>
+GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/andrwcnln">@andrwcnln</a><br>
+RSS: <a href="/feed.xml">/feed.xml</a><br>
 <hr>
-<img src="/assets/images/me.jpg">
-<br>
-Hi! My name is Andrew Conlin. I am a <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-conlin-61320a257/" target="_blank">software engineer</a> and <a href="http://andrewconlinphotography.co.uk" target="_blank">photographer</a>, currently based in Cambridge, England.
-<br>
-<br>
-My main hobbies are film photography and running. I love <a href="https://letterboxd.com/andrewconlin/">watching movies</a>, especially in the cinema. I love post-punk, dreampop and experimental hip hop. I love drinking good coffee, good beer and good whisky. I am also a passionate self-hoster, and like to think that I'm at least somewhat privacy conscious.  
-<br>
-<br>
-I mainly use this site as a space for my blog, where I post interesting things I've found, and some of my (not so interesting) thoughts. Inspired by <a href="https://til.simonwillison.net/">Simon Willison</a>, I also post my TIL series here. Any time I run into a weird error while programming, I post the full error message and the fix that I found, to hopefully help someone down the line.
-<br>
-<br>
-<h1> CONTACT </h1>
-<hr>
-You can <a href="mailto:andrew@andrewconl.in">email me</a>, or use any of the socials in the nav menu.

meta.html

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+---
+layout: default
+title: meta
+---
+
+<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="/">~</a> > <a href="">{{page.title}}</a><br></span>
+<p>Both the Sans Serif and Monospace fonts used on this site are <a href="https://vercel.com/font">Geist, by Vercel</a>.</p>
+<p>Background colour is #000000, text colour is #E7D7AD, accent colour is #FABD2F.</p>
+<p>The site is built using Jekyll. Source is available <a href="https://git.andrewconl.in/andrew/site">here</a>.</p>
+<hr>

projects.html

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+---
+layout: default
+title: projects
+---
+<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="/">~</a> > <a href="">{{page.title}}</a><br></span>
+<ul style="list-style-type:none;margin:0;padding:0;">
+	<p><span style="font-family:Geist Mono"><a href="https://pypi.org/project/tictoc">tictoc</a> / </span>Fast, simple and accurate Python timing. Written in Rust.</p>
+</ul>
+<hr>

til.html

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 ---
 layout: default
-title: LATEST TILS <span style="font-size:20px;"><a href="/feed/til.xml"><i class="fas fa-rss-square"></i></a></span>
-subtitle: my collection of tils (today-i-learned). i use this mainly to collect solutions to weird errors i have faced, and detail the little projects that i work on. this has its own atom feed (above) as they are typically very different from my other posts. all tils are blog posts but not all blog posts are tils.
-permalink: /til/
+title: til
+backlink: false
 ---
-
-
-<hr>
+<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="/">~</a> > <a href="">{{page.title}}</a><br></span>
 <ul style="list-style-type:none;margin:0;padding:0;">
-  {% for post in site.posts %}
-  {% assign category = post.category %}
-  {% if category == 'til' %}
+    {% for post in site.posts %}
+    {% assign category = post.category %}
+    {% if category == 'til' %}
     <li>
-      <h4><a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></h4>
-      <div style="font-family:Fira Code;font-weight:500;">
-        <i class="fas fa-calendar"></i>&nbsp;{{ post.date | date_to_string }}
-      </div>
-      {{ post.content | strip_html | truncatewords: 30 }}
-      <br>
-      <br>
+		<p><span style="font-family: Geist Mono">{{ post.date | date: "%Y-%m-%d" }} / </span><a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></p>
     </li>
-  {% endif %}
-  {% endfor %}
-</ul>
+    {% endif %}
+    {% endfor %}
+</ul>
+<hr>