Dgplug

I rejigged the website today. I try not to do this often, but sometimes it becomes unavoidable, when I listen to some ineffable voice in my head. This time, I hived the blog off to a /blog subsection, leaving the site free for any static remodelling that I’d want to do later. I am trying my darndest to get redirection to work, but so far no joy. If you are a regular reader of my articles, just add a /blog/ after the domain name with any page you want to access. For e.g. https://janusworx.com/on-margin/ is now https://janusworx.com/blog/on-margin/ ...

Only managed a half hour of learning regex. The day seems to have gone to the dogs. Hope to do better tomorrow!

Pleased as punch, with my Miniflux instance. RSS, is how I catch up with everything newsy and techy and with what people I want to hear from, have to say. I love it. I did face one teensy issue with it though. Every time I rebooted my machine, the Miniflux service would fail to start. I would just manually do a systemctl restart miniflux and it would start right up, with that innocent doggy face. ...

Did not have much time to study today. Was busy putting out fires at work. Spent an hour learning Regular Expressions though.

Awfully proud of myself today. I wrote little program to scratch an itch, I had. It’s still rough, but it does what I want it to, and that makes me happpy. I go to Poetry Foundations’ Poem of the Day ever so often to catch a poem. And I wondered, what if the daily poem showed up in my RSS reader everyday? I searched and unfortunately couldn’t find a feed. So I did the next best thing. Armed with my newly acquired, Python knowledge, I set out to see if I could just get a link to a new poem daily. And what I ended up doing was writing a program, that scraped the webpage metadata for the date, compared it to today and if it was, created a baby xml feed for me, that I have now put into my reader. ...

This probably will be a few days of bike shedding. I finally came up with a problem, I want to solve for myself and then realised, I don’t know enough command line fu to integrate my stuff with my operating system, the way I like. So I am going to spend time, learning how to use the bash shell. Been searching, copying and modifying scripts for far too long now. Best to get this skill in my kitty as soon as I can possibly learn it. ...