What Now?
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...
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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...
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...
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...
Scraping the Current Bitcoin Price using Javascript with Cheerio
Scraping the Current Bitcoin Price using Javascript with Cheerio
Scraping the Current Bitcoin Price using Javascript with Cheerio
Scraping the Current Bitcoin Price using Javascript with Cheerio
Scraping the Current Bitcoin Price using Javascript with Cheerio
Scraping the Current Bitcoin Price using Javascript with Cheerio
Scraping the Current Bitcoin Price using Javascript with Cheerio
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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.
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...
I found this excellent article https://ben.balter.com/2015/02/20/jekyll-collections/
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...
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.
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...