Repairing My Family Spectrum
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Making
Getting Markdown Out of the Psion
The Psion 5MX makes a great little portable writing tool, but getting files off takes a little more effort.
The word processor handles plain text and it’s own proprietary binary format. Plain text is fine,
but I’d like to do something with the formatted content.
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Microsoft Build Tools 2015 are broken
We have a bunch of node tooling that relies on npm-gyp to build native windows packages. Most
of these tools appear to be strictly dependant on the 2015 version of the Microsoft
Build Tools.
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Code
Psion 5MX - Oh, I've been waiting for this...
I have coveted (verily coveted), a Psion since my school days. A few friends had them, I had a Palm IIIe. And whilst I got a lot of mileage out of my Palm over the years (it got me through university), the potential productivity of the Psion 5...
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Making
Reply to Sonia Sodha's "Stonewall risks all..."
I wrote to the Guardian letters desk, based on a number of messages I
received today. It’s the first time I’ve felt compelled to do so. I fully
expect the letter to disappear in to the ether, so I’m also publishing it
here.
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Comment
Remote Development on Windows using Visual Studio Code and OpenSSH
Whilst under lockdown, I moved development of .NET projects from my ultrabook to a rather large desktop.
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Code
Writing Interactive Fiction with Inform 6 and Vorple
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Code
Pomodoro Clock
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Making
Pectoral Cross
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Making
Designing For Food Allergies
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Code
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