2019-12-31

  • Updated sodaware.net to be rebuilt via git and a cron job. Uses a similar system as philnewton.net. Had to fix a few broken org-mode files to get everything publishing, but it works now.

2019-12-24

  • Updated shiningsource.org to use HTTPS. I’ve been meaning to do it for years but never got around to it. Only did it because Derek had linked to the non-existant https version in his article on Briny Sword.

2019-12-19

  • Finally got mu4e set up with multiple accounts. Took a couple of attempts to get contexts working, and I’ll probably tweak my workflow, but for now it works.

2019-12-05

2019-12-05

  • Set up my personal accounts in ledger. Next step is to automate converting and importing data from different institutions.

2019-11-08

2019-10-10

  • Released docgen version 0.1.0.

2019-10-01

  • Released blam version 0.1.0.

2019-09-16

  • Move LispMax’s list function into the core (BitzMax part). Was previously using one written in lispmax itself (foldr cons nil items), which is over 100 times slower than doing it within BlitzMax. There’s always overhead when using a scripting language vs native, but list is a pretty fundamental function so it needs to be as fast as possible.

2019-09-15

  • Updated security headers on philnewton.net to include Feature-Policy, Referrer-Policy and Content-Security-Policy. The CSP took the longest to get working as the syntax highlighting library I’m using was packed and used eval to unpack (which I have blocked). There’s also few inline scripts that needed hashes generating - thankfully Chrome will show these in the dev console.

2019-09-02

  • Switched philnewton.net to a new server. The site is now rebuilt on the server every hour or when files are pushed to git.

2019-05-30

  • Rebuilt sodaware.blitzmax_array to use array slices instead of copying things with a for...next loop. Much faster and shortens the code considerably. Refactoring is much, much simpler with unit tests.

2019-05-27

  • Fixed bug in blam when creating zip files. Added files did not have the correct date info set, so were always showing as being created in 1970.

2019-05-24

  • Released maxcop version 0.1.0.

2019-05-23

  • Fixed another security hole in TSS. Wasn’t escaping search queries so it was vulnerable to XSS attacks.

2019-05-21

  • Fixed a bug with blitzmax-mode indentation. Was not indenting Repeat...Forever loops correctly. And it was treating Forever keyword as the start of a For...Next loop. Oops.

2019-05-02

2019-04-25

  • Set up borg using borgmatic. Backups are run hourly using cron.

2019-04-22

  • Started work on setting up my PC with automated backups using borg. Using borgbase for storage. Backblaze b2 is cheaper for storage, but borgbase is tailored to work with borg and was a bit smoother to set up.

2019-04-17

2019-04-15

  • Created an elisp function to insert new log entries into these files. See note.

2019-04-14

  • Converted shining-online.co.uk to be provisioned and setup using Ansible. It’s far, far too much for a single site like this, but it’s good practice.

2019-04-13

  • Created some simple elisp for creating new notes for this site. Probably won’t save me time in the long-run, but it was fun to implement.

2019-04-11

  • Rewrote scm_log plugin to meet WordPress standards (and actually escape data)
  • Fixed a pretty serious security flaw when sending a Location header but not exiting the script, so non-authenticated users could still submit data. Pretty embarassing.

2019-03-03

  • Released new version of garlic_spy with IFTTT.com integration.
  • Created a status page for Garlic Spy. Ugly code, but it checks for running processes and validates the chain state.

2019-02-16

2019-01-09