The personal website of Piers Cawley
(they/him)
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FolkSinger, photographer, carer and occasional programmer.
I really should get around to replacing bloody GitHub.
God help me if I end up self-hosting my own instance of some code forge, but AI bollocks can fuck right off. I keep hoping that people are going to wake up and realise it’s the very worst kind of emperor’s new clothes bullshit, but they’re taking their own sweet time about it.
I confess that the blog is implying that it works with webmentions, but the infrastructure I used to display them isn’t working at the moment. Fixing it’s on the long TODO list that I might never get around to. However, the service that catches any webmentions is still in operation, so I’m not keen to remove it entirely.
Maybe I need to bump fixing things up the priority list.
I spent a few hours reducing a small annoyance related to the way I use Emacs to maintain its literate configuration file by incrementally implementing slightly better processes until I reached the point where it was Good Enough to spend several more hours writing it up for the blog.
Not an elevator pitch for Emacs.
I feel like I’m in a maze of twisty SCSS files and am getting very confuzzled. However, the layout’s mostly working except in a narrow viewport, when the timestamp on a note happily fits in the left margin, but the timestamp on a post is truncated to the left because the font size doesn’t seem to reduce as much. As far as I can tell, they’re both the same size according to the stylesheet.
Ho hum… mostly working is better than not working. Check out the book cover thumbnails!
Notes appear to be working. I have the horrible feeling that the CSS I’m using to style things is about as inelegant as it’s possible to be, but things to seem to be looking okay in a decent array of viewport sizes. I’ll call that a win.
I’m working on adding short notes without titles to the blog.
Basically something that maps neatly to Mastodon toots or Bluesky skeets. The chief difficulty will likely be styling them in a fashion that’s consistent with the rest of the blog, but still compact
A robot valet kills its master for no apparent reason, then heads off on a Pilgrim’s Progress to understand his malfunction.
This is intended as a quick guide for anyone who comes on as a Friday night Song Swap guest, but anyone who’s thinking of using Zoom (or doing their own streams) to share music with folk might find it useful, so I’m making it public.
A quick introduction to adjusting the panning of overdubs in Loopy Pro clips, including a link to a miRACK configuration and instructions on how to use it in your own Loopy Pro configurations
I’m not quite sure where the time went these last couple of weeks, but here we are at another Sunday. We’ve spent quite a bit of the time watching a new family of kittens that have taken to playing on the flat roof of our garage. They’re almost obscenely cute scraps of black and white fur and just delightful to watch.
Another quiet week. Streamed tired on Friday night, so quite a bit of pilot error with the looper, but folk still seemed to enjoy it.
A bit of a mixed week, mood wise. Capped by a great day’s singing and chatting in Peterborough yesterday.
It’s great to get out of the house sometimes. Gill coped really well by herself too – I’m a full time carer, but it’s definitely good to know that I can have the odd day off without it completely buggering things up.
A quiet week. Had to cancel Friday night’s singing session with Emily – initially because Emily’s still recovering from COVID, but on the night itself, my diabetes meds decided to give me hellacious indigestion. Ozempic/semaglutide might well do wonders for my HBA1c readings, but it can’t half mess with my guts as well.
Oops, missed a week; seems I didn’t have anything interesting to say, or I was too busy doing stuff to write about it. Probably the former.
Not a bad week, this week. My step daughter and her family called in on their way back from holiday on Friday night and we spent a pleasant evening with them and a few Cawleys who were knocking about, sat outside the Wool Market. Mostly good food, but apparently the Greek place isn’t that good. Rustic Pizza is still good though.
Three weeks on the trot. Definitely calling that a win.
Also, Good Omens 2 is a delight. Still enough of Terry’s character hanging around it, and the new writers help it not feel too Neil-y.