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What Now?

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Some personal news today - it is the first day of the rest of my life when I do not have to show up for work for someone else! It feels great but equally I a...

Stripe Investigation

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I once read a post (on Hackers News I think) that the ability to take money online IS your startup. I am sure this was before Stripe had appeared but the poi...

Moving on to Website Design

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Finally I have managed to figure out how to get my non-posts to appear on my Jekyll / Github Pages website. I am using collections which is an easy way to ge...

Starting the Web-Scraping Article

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I haven’t figured out how to properly place articles on this Jekyll site but I want to start writing an article nevertheless. I might as well use these journ...

Roadmap

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When I say ‘Roadmap’ what I really mean is trying to put some order around my own to-do list! Currently top-of-mind is expanding the Javascript screen-scapin...

Ready to Write an Article

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I definitely have enough now to write a how-to article on scraping. I need to sort out this Jekyll site though and figure out how to link to articles not ju...

Successfully scraping the Bitcoin price

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I successfully scraped the Bitcoin price from cryptowat.ch using Cheerio on Node.js! Took a bit of untangling but now I have an appreciation for the selector...

Learning Javascript and Node

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I have been delving a bit deeper into Javascript on Node. I would like to pull the Bitcoin price from cryptowat.ch simply to calculate current value of a giv...

Learning InkScape

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Being learning a bit more about Inkscape today which I am enjoying. Learned that SVG graphics have ‘nodes’ and ‘handles’ that define the shape of an object. ...

Some TTRPG Art

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Something a bit different in the last few days. I bought a Wacom One to learn more about digital drawing and art. I had planned to use it with Gimp. It works...

Jekyll Journey

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I am learning a bit more about how Jekyll works. I’m watching the tutorial videos from the jekyll site like this one on basic site generation.

Jekyll Journey

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I have added a collection called crypto to the site with a single post in my _crypto sub-directory. You can manually navigate to it by adding /crypto/Twenty...

Jekyll Journey

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I found this excellent article https://ben.balter.com/2015/02/20/jekyll-collections/

Jekyll Journey

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So far, so good. However I need a different menu layout for my blog posts. Rather than all posts appearing under the ‘Blog’ menu item, I want to have a sub...

Jekyll Journey

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I haven’t looked at this site for a few months but I have lots I want to blog about so I decided to revisit.

Site Re-Launch

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Well. Finally got around to putting this old website together. Neat thing about it - powered by Jekyll and I can use Markdown to author my posts. It actually...