Blog and General Musings

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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