I wanted to process some email address data today but hide the real email addresses. To do that I chose to run the SHA-256 hash over the email address data. Here's the python snippet I used to convert the plain emails to the hashed versions (ignoring any emails with ...
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Taking Back Control of My Feed
I am taking back control over the feed of what I read. That means going back to RSS and getting re-acquainted with the Feedly RSS reader.
read moreStarting With Blender: Learn One Instrument at a Time
For this month's Manchester CoderDojo the boys and I decided that we wanted to start doing 3D animation using Blender. None of us knew anything about 3D or Blender before. Let me share one critical observation from three-weeks of head-spinning YouTube videos:
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Getting Started With Scuttlebutt
I've set myself up on Scuttlebutt a decentralised social network. I heard about it as an off-grid Facebook alternative from this Software Engineering Daily podcast.
If you'd like to connect with me on Scuttlebug I'm
@jnA0/zkHb0TYLheAhmzNxK6MlOWqHlsk+xxMdy/pRDY=.ed25519Here's how I set it up ...
read moreFidget Spinner Micro:bit Electronics
Sunday 11th June 2017 was the 40th Manchester CoderDojo. Sons #1, #3, and I ran a table working with Micro:bits to see if we could figure out how fast a fidget spinner was revolving. We were inspired from the May CoderDojo when we videoed a spinner and discovered weird ...
read moreGitHub Pages Redirecting Plain Hostname to WWW
I set this site up on GitHub pages and the address http://www.davepotts.software was working just fine. The other day I noticed that if you tried to load the site without the "www." you ended up at a domain parking page of my DNS provider.
The fix so ...
read morePassing the Google Mobile Site Test - Step 2 - Fix "Content Wider Than Screen" Error
I'm working to get this blog site to pass the Google mobile friendly site test. In the last post I fixed the viewport. In this post I'm going to fix the "Content wider than screen" warning.
Switching Chrome into developer tools mode (press F12 on Windows), and choosing ...
read morePassing the Google Mobile Site Test - Step 1 - Viewport Metatag
This blog site didn't pass the Google mobile friendly site test. I'm going to publish some posts describing how I updated the blog site to make it pass.
Step one is this post: fixing the viewport.
The viewport is a HTML meta tag that tells small screen devices ...
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