Blog and General Musings

Install Zendesk App Tools on MacOS

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Zendesk App Tools was a major pain in the ass to install, I was plagued with errors and ended up having to Google a quite a lot. Hopefully this saves you some time.

Using an Atreus Keyboard on Mac and Windows

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Atreus keyboard.

My main keyboard is a Moonlander, a column-staggered split mechanical keyboard. It doesn’t take long for fingers to get used to the adjusted key positions and thus forget (or certainly slow down) typing on a regular keyboard. With this in mind I have a Keyboardio Atreus as a more portable solution when I know I’m going to do a reasonable amount of typing away from my desk.

Adding a Second GitHub Account to a Computer

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Recently I needed to commit to a repo under a different account, thinking this would be a common issue meant I was quite surprised to discover that GitHub Desktop doesn’t support adding multiple accounts. Reading up on the subject I got it working using SSH keys, I’ve documented the process below.

Creating a Component Variation in Fractal

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This confused me for a while as there seems to be a few ways to achieve this. In the end this is what worked for me.

Using Fractal to Build a Pattern Library

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As the focus of my work has shifted in large part from working on a WordPress website to designing the UI and writing the front-end code for web-based software I realised I’d need a single source of truth to document the components.

Hosting Hugo Website on DigitalOcean

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Having moved my blog from WordPress to Hugo I now don’t need the LAMP hosting I’m currently paying for. It was time to do one of my most unfavourite things: deal with hosting.

2021 Reading Challenge

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In spite of the various lockdowns of 2020 I didn’t actually do much reading. I’m aiming to rectify this next year by reading 25 books during the year.

Using a WBR Tag in Hugo Markdown

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If you have long paths in your blog content they can be an issue on mobile screens, they don’t wrap and can cause layout problems.

Weekly Roundup December 2020, part 1

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I read many interesting articles during my week, generally I archive them in Pocket or OneNote. Moving forward it’s my plan to create a weekly blog post linking to these articles.

My First Hugo Build

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It seems fitting that the first post on my shiny new blog should be about the software used to build it.