Usually coherent ramblings

Today I wrote a simple script to recursively convert reStructuredText files to asciidoc in the current folder: #!/bin/bash for f in `find . -type f -name '*.rst'` do pandoc -f rst -t asciidoc -o "${f%.rst}.adoc" $f rm $f done (Side note: pandoc doesn't ...

Fri 30 June 2017

git

Do You Want To Git Good?

A couple of months ago, the local Ruby meetup group, BrisRuby, put out a call to see if anyone could do an introductory git talk. It ended up turning into two talks over two months. "Gitting Into Version Control: an introduction to git" and "Gitting ...

Thu 16 March 2017

conference

Bsides Canberra 2017

✔ Laptop ✔ Conference shirts ✔ Hacker passport ✔ Black hoodie Equipped with a backpack, I headed to Brisbane airport for my first adventure to Canberra for the Bsides security conference. I was a bit disappointed to miss out on Bsides last year, so I ...

Sun 29 January 2017

conference

linux.conf.au 2017

This year, Linux Conference Australia (LCA) was held in the brisk, bright city of Hobart, capital of the oft-forgotten state of Tasmania. Honestly, it isn't a ciy I would visit without a reason, but I'm glad LCA drew me out there. The wind was cold and ...

Tue 06 December 2016

linux

Trying out the i3 window manager on Fedora

** i3 Window Manager is quite well documented. These are mostly notes for my own reference at this stage. https://i3wm.org/i3status/manpage.html http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_using_workspaces https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html ...

Fri 11 November 2016

misc

Podcast Recommendations

Current list 99% Invisible - A consistently good podcast about design and architecture. Hosted by Roman Mars. Reply All - Stories from the internet. Hosted by PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman of TL;DR Planet Money - Interesting stories about the economy Bad ...

Wed 08 June 2016

web

Creating a Static Site with Pelican

I've finally gotten around to creating a blog with Pelican. Pelican is a simple static site generator, written in Python. Why Pelican? I've found it very easy to use, and since the site is static, it can be hosted with GitHub pages. Example > pip ...

Wed 08 June 2016

misc

Test Post Please Ignore

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