Dave Pearson

#BlogMore v2.23.0 is now available, with some cache control, some extra cache usage, and auto-reload for pages in the browser when in serve mode.

https://blog.davep.org/2026/05/14/blogmore-v2-23-0.html

#python #programming #ssg #blogging #writing

Battling my muscle memory in Magit: https://blog.davep.org/2026/05/13/stopping-an-accidental-push.html

#emacs #lisp #elisp

#BlogMore v2.22.0 is now available; it goes a little faster: https://blog.davep.org/2026/05/13/blogmore-v2-22-0.html

#blogging #python #programming #ssg

Me watching the #GitHub #Copilot bait and switch play out: https://blog.davep.org/2026/05/13/the-copilot-bait-and-switch.html

#ai #agentic

Thinking about trying to speed up #BlogMore a wee bit: https://blog.davep.org/2026/05/11/speeding-up-blogmore.html

#python #programming #ssg

#BlogMore v2.21.0 is now available. This adds a lint command that is used to check your blog content for various issues.

https://blog.davep.org/2026/05/10/blogmore-v2-21-0.html

#blogging #ssg #python #programming #writing #linting

#BlogMore v2.20.0 is now available. Lots of under-the-hood changes, and some visible improvements and enhancements: https://blog.davep.org/2026/05/09/blogmore-v2-20-0.html

#blogging #blog #python #programming #ssg

I've released a small update to make-phony.el: https://blog.davep.org/2026/05/09/make-phony-el-v1-4-0.html

#emacs #lisp #elisp #programming

I've updated blogmore.el to add a command for quickly setting an image as the cover for a post: https://blog.davep.org/2026/05/08/blogmore-el-v4-5-0.html

#emacs #lisp #elisp #programming #blogging

I've released blogmore.el v4.4.0, which lets me be even more lazy: https://blog.davep.org/2026/05/07/blogmore-el-v4-4-0.html

#lisp #emacs #elisp #blogging

#BlogMore v2.19.0 is now available. This has a couple of fixes and a small cache-busting improvement: https://blog.davep.org/2026/05/04/blogmore-v2-19-0.html

#python #programming #blog #blogging #ssg

When you decide to dive into an otherwise AI-coded codebase, and you want to make by-hand changes, at least there are tests.

Right?

https://blog.davep.org/2026/05/01/at-least-there-are-tests.html

#ai #agent #agentic #copilot #claude #python #pytest

Considering a rescue of my original blog: https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/28/considering-a-rescue.html

#blogging #ssg

#BlogMore v2.18.0 is now a thing, with a richer tooltip in the graph, modified times shown for modified posts, and a wee feature request by @andyc

https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/28/blogmore-v2-18-0.html

#blogging #python #writing #ssg

I've updated blogmore.el with a couple of commands for working with the comment invite facility: https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/28/blogmore-el-v4-3-0.html

#emacs #elisp #lisp #blogmore #ssg #programming

I've released #BlogMore v2.17.0, which adds optional "email me your comments" support, and also an optional graph view of the blog.

https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/27/blogmore-v2-17-0.html

#python #programming #ssg #blogging #writing

Experimenting with the inevitable graph of stuff in #BlogMore

#python #blogging #ssg #programming

I've updated #BlogMore to v2.16.0; this release adds some optional internal backlink display support, as well as a new stats table for most-internally-linked posts: https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/25/blogmore-v2-16-0.html

#blogging #writing #python #programming #ssg

I made myself a little #Emacs package to make it easy to mark up keys in Markdown: https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/24/kbdify-el-v1-0-0.html

#Lisp #Elisp #programming #markdown

I've updated #BlogMore to address a small cosmetic issue that's been bugging me.

https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/24/blogmore-v2-15-0.html

#Python #programming #web #blog #blogging #ssg

After over a decade of use, I made a wee update to a personal #Emacs package I use for dropping into the scratch buffer: https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/24/itch-el-v1-3-0.html

#Lisp #Elisp #programming

I keep forgetting some abbevs I have for common URLs, so I quickly wrote a little tool to help me pick them from a list: https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/23/unabbrev-el-v1-0-0.html

#emacs #lisp #elisp #programming

So #Emacs kept quitting windows on occasion, while writing #Elisp code, but not always. And now expando.el v1.6 has been released.

https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/22/expando-el-v1-6.html

#lisp #programming

blogmore.el v4.2 is now available, with tweaked slugging and a changed image extension changer: https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/21/blogmore-el-v4-2.html

#emacs #lisp #elisp #blogging #programming

I've bumped blogmore.el to v4.1, adding a command to let me quickly swap a single image link from png to webp on my blog: https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/17/blogmore-el-v4-1.html

#blogging #blog #ssg #emacs #lisp #elisp

After seeing @andyc experiment with it, I decide to try the same: https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/16/i-should-use-webp.html

#blogging #ssg

I added a transient menu to boxquote: https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/16/boxquote-el-v2-4.html

#Emacs #Lisp #elisp #programming

#BlogMore v2.14.0, now with a posts-per-year bar chart in the stats page: https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/15/blogmore-v2-14-0.html

#blogging #ssg #writing #web

More tweaking of older #Emacs packages, this time slstats.sl: a package for looking up information about the #SecondLife grid.

https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/15/slstats-el-v1-11.html

#lisp #elisp #programing

I've released v1.4.0 of OldNews, my #terminal client for #TheOldReader. This release has a small but useful UI tweak: https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/15/oldnews-v1-4-0.html

#news #rss #atom #tui #python #programming

Cleaned up wordcloud.el, a little #Emacs package that turns a buffer into a word cloud, of sorts: https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/14/wordcloud-el-v1-4.html

#elisp #lisp #programming

Experimenting some more with an #MCP server to better understand this stuff: https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/12/ngmcp-v0-2-0.html

#MSDOS #clipper #nortonguide #AI #python #programming #fastMCP

More tinking with an MCP server, and learning it's kinda clunky to develop and test one with #Copilot CLI: https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/12/global-and-local-mcp-servers-with-copilot-cli.html

#mcp #fastmcp #ai #python #programming #github

I've released the first version of NGMCP, an MCP server for reading and querying Norton Guide database files. https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/11/ngmcp-an-mcp-experiment.html

#python #programming #mcp #fastmcp #ai #agent #msdos

Experimenting with how you build an MCP server, by building a server for Norton Guide files (of course!). So far it's going... surprisingly well. Now I can ask questions about CA-Clipper programming and get really slow answers.

#ai #llm #python #programming #clipper #msdos

Yesterday I discovered powRSS: https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/11/discovering-powrss.html

#blogging #blog #feeds #rss

So I needed to make a second release of blogmore.el in one day: https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/04/blogmore-el-v2-7.html

#emas #lisp #elisp #programming #blogging #ssg

Pondering the Astral news over my morning coffee.

https://blog.davep.org/2026/03/21/astral-and-openai.html

#astral #uv #python #openai

I just released v1.1.0 of Complexitty, my little #Mandelbrot explorer for the #terminal. This release is all about an optional method of making it faster.

#python #programming #textual #numba

https://blog.davep.org/2026/02/28/complexitty-1-1-0.html

Just arrived. 😍 #DeathStranding #DeathStranding2

Currently playing with adding optional #Numba support to Complexitty; my #Mandelbrot plotter for the #terminal. The speedup is okay.

Given this zoom and position, on my M2 Mac mini, 0.8 seconds. With Numba: 0.2 seconds.

I should give it a spin on my M2 Pro mini.

Without Numba on my 2019 Intel MacBook Pro the same spot takes about 2 seconds.

#Python #programming

I've released v1.2.0 of OldNews, my #TheOldReader client for the #terminal. This version adds some cleaning/filtering to the full article grab facility, explained here: https://oldnews.davep.dev/grab_filters/

https://github.com/davep/oldnews

#Python #RSS #RSSReader #FeedReader

Because some subscriptions are stingy with the content of the feed -- trying to force you to visit the actual page in a browser -- I added a "grab page and show text locally" feature to OldNews. But... this can be annoying too because such sites tend to have a lot of cruft surrounding the actual article text.

So I'm playing with a per-subscription selector to whittle down any such download to the real content of an article.

#rss #python #atom #rssreader #terminal

I've just released v1.1.0 of OldNews, a #terminal client for #TheOldReader. The main change in this release is to add the ability to download and display the text of a page for an article you're viewing; useful for those sites that are stingy with the summary in the feed.

https://github.com/davep/oldnews

#rss #atom #feedreader #python

It's time to call v1.0.0 on OldNews, a #TheOldReader client for the #terminal

#Python #terminal #rss #atom #news #foss #programming

https://blog.davep.org/2026/02/11/oldnews.html

The winter break project is (post-break) getting dangerously close to being usable as a daily driver. At this rate I’ll have to do some proper docs soon!

https://github.com/davep/oldnews

#Python #terminal #rss #theoldreader #programming

The winter break project is coming along okay. The UI doesn't look much different than before, but I've been on a side quest of trying out local database/ORM options, etc. Ended up settling on TypeDAL (https://typedal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/). So local DB sync is mostly working now.

#python #programming #terminal #theoldreader #foss #rss

Okay, #term39 is giving me some serious #DESQview (with a side order of #TurboVision) vibes and I like it. #msdos #dos #terminal

@kkarhan @mapto @yawnbox @Mer__edith

"It's easer, faster, cheaper, more resilient, private and secure to onboard #TechIlliterates woth #XMPP+#OMEMO over @torproject / #Tor using @guardianproject #Orbot @monocles / #monoclesChat..."

If it's easier, why isn't it as successful and used by the military etc? You seem to have dismissed video calls etc too. You could argue against that functionality for certain use cases, but it's become a core part of secure messaging over time. Maybe they just have different audiences.

I kind of agree on Moxie's reliance on Intel SGX though. Even at its inception it worried me. But it's not part of the core E2EE protocol so could potentially be replaced.

Time for the final main story mission, perhaps? https://www.youtube.com/live/0mT5IP2t918?si=wVxYE9LmEnE4W1ah #JustCause #JustCause3