Regarding computer hardware I have had to hand in the last two years or so, things have been in flux, you might say. I have not had ready access to a proper non-work Linux desktop environment where I could happily run Docker and Python. This has meant that keeping my Pelican blog up to date…
In this article I have a play with PyEphem and our local star, both as an opportunity to draw some pretty graphs and answer a few basic astronomy related questions, such as: what does the equation of time look like and is there a difference in the time it takes for the sun to set during the year.
I received some good news this week: my Show Source plugin, the one inspired by Sphinx, has had its pull request accepted into the getpelican/pelican-plugins repo. This means that the plugin becomes a part of the standard Pelican plugin canon.
I have been doing a little work with AWS data pipeline recently for undertaking ETL tasks at work. AWS data pipeline handles data driven workflows called pipelines. The data pipelines take care of scheduling, data depenedencies, data sources and destinations in a nicely managed workflow. My tasks take batch datasets from SQL databases, processing and…
I have always been a fan of the Sphinx Python documentation generator and it has, I think, a nice feature where you can check out the raw source of a generated piece of documentation - a Show Source link. I decided that developing a Pelican plugin to imitate that feature would be a great way…
Since getting a Garmin Forerunner 610 I have been largely satisfied with the various aspects of getting the data from the said watch on to the Internet. It is a multi stage process, each with risks and issues very much dependent on non functional qualities, such as network and USB resilience, usability and so on.…
I have been running a little while now and am always in the habit of taking my phone with me to get some monitoring in on my progress with the aid of GPS and so on. I have been using a really nice app called mapmyrun. It has given me months of good service and…
This brief article focuses on only one part of using Pelican as a static site generation tool - the day to day usage once the set up is established. There are loads of really good articles on how to get started with Pelican and I am not about to add to that growing pile; there…
As a rather inexperienced writer, it is the little things I struggle with, as well as the big things you might add. I find that one of the most annoying is getting title case correct. There are a lot of style guides about which may or may not help; I find some of them cryptic…