LyX Tips for Thesis Writing
LyX is a lovely bit of software for preparing beautiful documents – you get the high quality output of LaTeX and the advantages of logical document description in a usable interface and without having...
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Hashing Flickr Photos
I used to host my photos with a simple set of CGI scripts that basically worked well enough for my simple requirements. Such web applications are easy and fun to write, but in the end I decided that...
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The Guardian on your Kindle
Update: It is now possible to buy an official subscription to The Guardian and The Observer. The rest of this post is now largely of historical interest if you just want The Guardian on your Kindle,...
View ArticleMaking an encrypted partition on a USB drive
On Ubuntu or Debian, it’s really simple to create an encrypted partition on a newly-purchased USB mass storage device. In my case, I had bought a 1TB hard drive which had very mixed reviews, some...
View ArticlePrinting out GitHub issues for triage or estimation
On one of the projects I’ve been working on at mySociety had a large number of open issues, most of which hadn’t been looked at for some time, and didn’t have estimates of difficulty. To address this...
View ArticleMigrating YourNextRepresentative from PopIt to django-popolo
This post was originally intended for the mySociety blog, but because of its length and technical content people suggested to me it might be more suitable for my own blog. This about the development of...
View ArticleDealing with awkward subtitle problems in Handbrake
I know very little about Handbrake; this is just some notes on what I personally do to reduce my confusion about why subtitles aren’t being ripped properly and manually fixing that, but I almost...
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Why should you learn SPARQL? Wikidata!
Why learn SPARQL now? I think that SPARQL has something of a bad reputation in the open data community – my impression is that that came about because when organisations published data by making a...
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