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Written by Alex Willmer on 2024-12-28 at 15:16

Probably time to retire this NAS

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Written by Alex Willmer on 2024-12-20 at 13:39

I'm out. A street food stall in Reading. #whamageddon

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Written by Alex Willmer on 2024-12-17 at 14:09

[#]TIL to use a dict-comprehension in an f-string add parens or whitespace #Python

d = {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3, 'd': 5, 'e': 6}

f"{({k: v for k, v in d.items() if v % 2})}"

"{'a': 1, 'c': 3, 'd': 5}"

f"{ {k: v for k, v in d.items() if v % 2} }"

"{'a': 1, 'c': 3, 'd': 5}"

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Written by Alex Willmer on 2024-12-12 at 14:01

Kapton tape and/or temperature tweaks helped. It completed, with a little warping. The kapton gives the underside a sheen

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Written by Alex Willmer on 2024-12-12 at 12:30

FIlament was fresh out the pack. I also dried it in the printer chamber for 8 hours. I've found some kapton tape, so I'll try that.

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Written by Alex Willmer on 2024-12-12 at 12:20

Attempting my first prints with ASA filament. It's proving tricky - bed adhesion & warping are much worse. I've cleaned the PEI build plate, applied glue stick, added brims, & slowed head travel. Next will be higher temperatures, maybe a different build plate? eSUN ASA black, Bambu P1S #3DPrinting

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Written by Alex Willmer on 2024-12-08 at 00:42

[#]TIL ssh-keygen -R <ip--or-hostname> to remove a host from ~/.ssh/known_hosts. I'm adding it as reminder comment on the top line of that file.

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Written by Alex Willmer on 2024-12-04 at 18:16

moreati.uv 0.0.2 for Ansible is out https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/moreati/uv/ this release fixes an ImportError when operating inside a virtualenv. moreati.uv.pip now requires uv >= 0.5.6. Thanks to @jamescooke & @charliermarsh #Python #Ansible

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Written by Alex Willmer on 2024-12-04 at 17:14

Nothing exotic. Braun make them https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004EFXO28

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Written by Alex Willmer on 2024-12-04 at 15:55

I'm fed up of replacing electric toothbrushes with a worn out, non-replacable lithium-ion battery. SoI'm trying one that takes AA rechargables.

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Written by Alex Willmer on 2024-12-04 at 01:29

uv 0.5.6 is out https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/tag/0.5.6 with support for uv pip uninstall --dry-run by yours truly. I'll release a moreati.uv 0.0.2 for Ansible shortly, making use of this.

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Written by Alex Willmer on 2024-11-09 at 16:44

Silicon Corridor Linux User Group (SCLUG) are meeting for a chat and some drinks this Weds 13 Nov, from 7:30 PM, at Back of Beyond, Kings Road, Reading https://www.sclug.org.uk/ New members are welcome #SCLUG #RdgUK #Berkshire

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Written by Alex Willmer on 2024-11-04 at 02:52

First attempt at an Ansible pip module using Astral uv as the backend https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/moreati/uv/docs/ moreati.uv.pip aims to be a drop in replacement for ansible.builtin.pip #ansible #python #uv

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Written by Alex Willmer on 2024-10-25 at 12:20

I'm invincible! #Demotivational

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Written by Alex Willmer on 2024-10-18 at 08:32

Silver Searcher can match paths, instead of file contents. ag -g <regex> recursively finds paths that match a regular expression. Unlike find -regex ... it ignores files you usually don't care about (.git/*, *.pyc, *.min.js, ...) #SilverSearcher #TIL

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Written by Alex Willmer on 2024-10-08 at 15:04

Python 3.13.0 is now available via GitHub Action setup-python@v5, following merge of https://github.com/actions/python-versions/pull/312 #GitHub #Python

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Written by Alex Willmer on 2024-09-24 at 12:06

[#]TIL In Python 2.x io.StringIO() is not a substitute for StringIO.StringIO(). The io module is intentionally stricter about byte strings vs textual (unicode) strings. StringIO.StringIO() is loosey goosey, accepting both https://gist.github.com/moreati/66d88c58000fc5cc2e67c254bb5d0e53 I probably knew this years ago, but forgot.

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Written by Alex Willmer on 2024-09-23 at 21:03

A tale of a gloriously, ridiculously overengineered wall clock https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2024-337-gps-time-leap-seconds-and-a-clock-thats-always-right Anything called "Mark IV" is awesome, and I will be getting one

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Written by Alex Willmer on 2024-09-23 at 18:47

The media.ccc.de frontend is open source https://github.com/voc/voctoweb I don't think it has keyboard shortcuts for playback speed (e.g. Shift+, slower; Shift +. faster). I should check further, may try submitting a PR.

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Written by Alex Willmer on 2024-09-23 at 18:37

Electromagnetic Field 2024 videos are avaialable https://media.ccc.de/b/conferences/emf/2024 That's my Monday evening sorted #EMFCamp

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