Thoughts on Software Development and other Topics on Bas-Man's Musings

C++ | Sites

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:00:00 +0900

GitHub Projects

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:00:00 +0900

A list of some my current GitHub projects

Ansible | Sites

Fri, 10 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0900

CI | Sites

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 23:55:00 +0900

General | Sites

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 23:55:00 +0900

Tools

JSON

Perl | Sites

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 23:55:00 +0900

Python | Sites

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 23:55:00 +0900

Real Python
Miguel Grinberg
- Seems to have lots of good flask content.
- Decorators Part I

C++ | Articles

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:00:00 +0900

Self hosted LINE Notify From Email

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:00:00 +0900

This project is made of a few different components.

Python module and scripts
Docker configuration.
Exim or Postfix configuration within docker.

The basic idea is to be able to accept an email, process it and trigger a LINE message Notification. So I am looking to replace Zapier in a very small way.

Ansible | Articles

Fri, 10 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0900

Articles

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 23:55:00 +0900

Header Contents

Articles

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 23:55:00 +0900

CI | Articles

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 23:55:00 +0900

CI: Hitchhicker’s guide to Python

General | Articles

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 23:55:00 +0900

Git | Articles

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 23:55:00 +0900

Private Git server

LaTeX | Articles

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 23:55:00 +0900

Perl | Articles

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 23:55:00 +0900

Python | Articles

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 23:55:00 +0900

Rust | Articles

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 23:55:00 +0900

Rust Gentle Intro
Tutorial Spot: Rust
Learn Rust
Learning Rust: Github
Tour of Rust
Builder Pattern:
- Rust-Lang-Org
- Reddit Result in Builder
  - Related Playground

Auto generate a static website after a remote push to the server.

Tue, 22 Jun 2021 13:00:00 +0900

#!/bin/bash

DOMAIN=[domain-name]
GIT_REPO=/var/repos/[repo-name].repo.git
WORKING_DIRECTORY=/tmp/$DOMAIN
PUBLIC_WWW=/var/www/$DOMAIN
BACKUP_WWW=/tmp/$DOMAIN-backup

set -e

rm -rf $WORKING_DIRECTORY
rsync -aqz $PUBLIC_WWW/ $BACKUP_WWW
trap "echo 'A problem occurred. Reverting to backup.'; rsync -aqz --del $BACKUP_WWW/ $PUBLIC_WWW; r
m -rf $WORKING_DIRECTORY" EXIT

git clone $GIT_REPO $WORKING_DIRECTORY
git clone https://github.com/[them] $WORKING_DIRECTORY/themes/beautifulhugo
# The following section should be changed to use rsync so that it nicely updates
# the directory instead of making it blank.
rm -rf $PUBLIC_WWW/*
hugo -s $WORKING_DIRECTORY -d $PUBLIC_WWW -b "http://${DOMAIN}"
rm -rf $WORKING_DIRECTORY

Get MetaCPAN to reference GitHub for Source and Issue Tracking

Mon, 14 Dec 2020 13:00:00 +0900

Get MetaCPAN to reference Github for Source and Issues

Merge a hot fix from Master back into Dev branch

Mon, 14 Dec 2020 13:00:00 +0900

How to Merge a Hotfix from Master back in to Dev

Overloading the << operator.

Mon, 14 Dec 2020 13:00:00 +0900

How to overload the « operator

Prevent CPAN-Testers from testing under certain OS

Mon, 14 Dec 2020 13:00:00 +0900

How to exclude some OS from being tested in the cpantester network.

Python | Modules

Fri, 10 Jul 2020 22:22:41 +0900

This is a list of modules that I am interested in using.

Pendulm An alternative to the datetime module
pyfakefs Mock your file system calls.
inflect Automatically plurualise words
Deprecated Deprecate code in Python.
netaddr Layer 3 handling for IP Addresses
simplegmail
mkdocstrings

How to change your git commit date after the facts

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 23:55:00 +0900

How to change your git commit date after the fact

Adding feature required Tag to Rust Documentation

Sat, 13 Nov 2021 14:00:00 +0900

I had a lot of trouble understanding this. Thus I am documenting it here for myself. All credit goes to the original StackOverFlow author.

Add one of the following to the root of your crate. Usually lib.rs
1.
```
#![feature(doc_cfg)]
```
This is less than ideal as it will cause compile errors when used with stable
2. It is better to use:
```
#![cfg_attr(docsrs, feature(doc_cfg))]
```
This allows this to be conditionally compiled and does not give any errors.

Auto convert one error to another

Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:30:00 +0900

Automatically convert one error to another.

Display Trait

Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:30:00 +0900

Define a display trait for a struct or enum

impl std::fmt::Display for MechanismError {
 fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
 match self {
 MechanismError::NotValidMechanismFormat(mesg) => {
 write!(f, "{} does not conform to any Mechanism format.", mesg)
 }
 MechanismError::NotIP4Network(mesg) => {
 write!(f, "Was given ip4:{}. This is not an ip4 network.", mesg)
 }
 MechanismError::NotIP6Network(mesg) => {
 write!(f, "Was given ip6:{}. This is not an ip6 network.", mesg)
 }
 MechanismError::NotValidIPNetwork(mesg) => {
 write!(f, "{}.", mesg)
 }
 MechanismError::NotIpNetworkMechanism => {
 write!(f, "Attempt to access TXT as IP.")
 }
 MechanismError::NotStringMechanism => {
 write!(f, "Attempt to access IP as TXT.")
 }
 }
 }
}

Reference:

How to to_string() in Rust

Enum to Encapulate Errors

Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:30:00 +0900

Creating a enum to encapsulate Errors.

Using trust-dns-resolver to do mx lookups

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 16:30:00 +0900

Using trust-dns-resolver to do mx lookups

Using trust-dns-resolver to do soa lookups

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 16:30:00 +0900

Using trust-dns-resolver to do soa lookups

Return a dictionary of Regex Matches

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 16:00:00 +0900

A GitHub gist showing how to return a dict of regex matches

Decoding Email Header and Contents

Thu, 15 Oct 2020 09:59:45 +0900

Using email.parser and email.policy along with policy.default means that you do not need to worry about character encoding as the modules will take care of it automatically.

I forget where I saw it but I believe that policy.default will become the real default in the future.
Current policy.compat32 is the module default.

Different String Padding Approaches

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 23:55:00 +0900

How to pad numbers in Python.

Generate QR Codes

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 23:55:00 +0900

Generate QR codes

Mock Python version for Testing

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 23:55:00 +0900

Rust | Crates

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 23:55:00 +0900

A list of useful and interesting Rust Crates

Fix fonts for terminal in VS Code Editor

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 12:00:00 +0900

I use zsh as my default shell. So I needed to add the following to my settings.json file.

"terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.osx": "zsh",

For the fonts terminal profile says that I used MesloLGS NF as my font. I added the following also to my settings.json file.

"terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "MesloLGS NF",

As result my VSCode terminal window now matches my default terminal.

Verify IMAP and submission port

Fri, 30 Jul 2021 23:00:00 +0900

These hints were taken from Support Plesk

IMAP via SSL using port 993

openssl s_client -showcerts -connect mail.example.com:993 -servername mail.example.com

SMTP via TLS/StartTLS using port 25 or 587

openssl s_client -starttls smtp -showcerts -connect mail.example.com:25 -servername mail.example.com

Davis Ashura

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 14:00:00 +0900

Series

Jim Butcher

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:55:00 +0900

Series

The Dresden Files

A. F. Kay

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 14:00:00 +0900

Series

Devine Apostasy This is actually a really good series.

David Gemmell

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:55:00 +0900

Series

Robert Jordan

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:55:00 +0900

Series

The Wheel of Time

Stand alone

New Spring This is a prequel to The Wheel of Time

Kel Kade

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:55:00 +0900

Series

King’s Dark Tidings

Sarah Lin

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 14:00:00 +0900

Series

Street Cultivation
The Weirkey Chronicles
- Currently only up to book 5 in the series.

Bryce O'Connor

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:55:00 +0900

Series

Warformed: Stormweaver

R. A. Salvatore

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:55:00 +0900

R. A. Salvatore has long been one of the fantasy authors that I check when a new book is released.

I have many of his books.

Brandon Sanderson

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:55:00 +0900

Series

Stand alone

Will Wight

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:55:00 +0900

Series

Zogarth

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:55:00 +0900

Series

The Primal Hunter

Build a robots.txt file from a data file

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:30:00 +0900

Recently, I was reviewing how I generating my blog. I have noticed that my site seems to get a lot of bot traffic. I would rather not see this traffic so I thought I should investigate how I might limit them to reduce the amount of traffic. So, a bit of searching and thinking and this is what I have decided for now.

Custom Corporate Holidays with holidays package

Fri, 09 May 2025 16:00:00 +0900

I am currently working on a newish personal project. My plan is to create a Python version of a Google Script app that I am running. I wanted to find a way to determine if a given date is a national holiday. This requires taking into account that National Holidays that fall on a Sunday are moved to the following Monday or to Tuesday if Monday is already a National Holiday. I also needed to support adding Company holidays. This is important as it impacts some calculations. Enter the Python package: holidays

Decon-Spf Version 0.2.6

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 14:50:00 +0900

Releasing Version 0.2.6 of decon_spf

A guide for using CMake Generators to support other IDEs.

Thu, 23 Dec 2021 10:30:00 +0900

Some times we might be working in a team, and that team has members who prefer to use different IDEs or who develop on different platforms. In these cases we can leverage CMake’s generators.
This is a short guide on using a generator for Xcode and adding a second test file to break up testing.

A barebones C++ library template using CMake and Google Test

Thu, 09 Dec 2021 12:30:00 +0900

Objective

This is a BAREBONES C++ template with Google Test support using CMake. It is setup to allow for the building of a static library using TDD principles; but could be adapted for building a small program. This is in no way the ideal solution.

This template was created to allow for programming under Mac OS. But the files should work under other systems.

Decon-Spf Version 0.2.1 Released

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 12:32:02 +0900

I am happy to announce that I have released decon-spf version 0.2.1 This release contains a number of improvements and a new feature.

Configure Router Credentials

Mon, 19 Jul 2021 10:17:14 +0900

Configure Filters for RTX1200 Router

Mon, 19 Jul 2021 10:13:06 +0900

Configure DHCP service on an RTX1200 Router

Mon, 19 Jul 2021 10:12:41 +0900

Configure PPPOE

Mon, 19 Jul 2021 10:12:14 +0900

Configure Syslog for an RTX1200 Router

Mon, 19 Jul 2021 09:59:02 +0900

Install & Configure Certbot

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 23:50:00 +0900

I have been playing with a few things of late. Mostly related to moving my site off GitHub and using my own domain. As part of that I am just toying with Let’s Encrypt. I have been doing this during my trial period with Linode.
Today I will document how I set up Let’s Encrypt using DNS as the preferred Challenge.

Moving Site from GitHub

Tue, 29 Jun 2021 13:50:00 +0900

Hi All,

So yesterday I decided to move my site from github.io to one of my personal domains. I am not sure why I decided this. I mean Github provides a great free service. And I had lots of automation in place. In this article I will just cover how i went about updating all pages with redirects from github to the new domain.

The Goal

My goal was to leave my old site up on GitHub for a few weeks to give Google some time to update its indexing. With all old pages being able to redirect to their new counterparts. This requires that I have redirects in place for each page. I will then remove the github site repo.

Push to GitHub Triggers Push to Remote

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:50:00 +0900

Hi. Today I would like to go over how I changed things up a bit and am now able to push my site updates to GitHub, which then pushes the updates to the live production server. This should allow me to add checks within GitHub to ensure my site it updated only if everything is correct. Though I won’t go into that here today. I will be focusing on the GitHub Action.

Auto Update Site from a Git Push

Tue, 22 Jun 2021 14:40:00 +0900

Hi,

For a little while now I have been thinking about moving my personal blog to a self-hosted service. One of the options I have been considering is Linode.

As part of this idea. I wanted to see how I might be able to automate some of the processes. This is just a write up on one of my ideas so far.

Published My First Crate: decon-spf

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 17:00:00 +0900

Today I published my first rust crate.

Rust: Add an Example Program to your Library Crate

Sun, 13 Jun 2021 16:45:00 +0900

Recently I decided that I might actually publish my little rust crate. To that end I started looking into some of the things that are needed and what can be done. I have published a perl module in the past. And as a rule for myself, I like to provide an example program that uses a module or library. That is what I will look at today.

Rust: Lazy Static Regex

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 14:00:00 +0900

Hi,

Today I will finally go over how I used the lazy_static crate to help the compiler keep regex optimised.

Hugo Custom Info Boxes

Sat, 05 Jun 2021 22:30:00 +0900

The other day I got my regular summary from GoHugo a discourse site where I am a member. This lead me to an interesting blog, which then lead me to an article on how to add custom info boxes to your site if it is not provided by your theme.

Swift: Deconstruct SPF

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 18:00:00 +0900

Hi,

I have been working on this project on and off for a bit now. So I thought it was time to go over how we might be able to not only internally document our code, but also to document it at the package level.

Swift: Deconstruct SPF: asMechanism with Qualifier

Thu, 27 May 2021 12:00:00 +0900

Hi,

In this article, I will walk through how I re-implemented the enum for Qualifier and MechanismKind. I will also deliver a working asMechanism() function. The diff is here

Swift: Deconstruct SPF - Qualifier and MechanismKind

Thu, 27 May 2021 08:50:00 +0900

In this article I will be looking at defining the enums for Qualifier and MechanismKind. I will also be adding tests to ensure that the functions work as expected. Further I will implement a simple asMechanism() as a proof of concept.

Swift: Deconstruct SPF: Strings and SubStrings

Sat, 22 May 2021 00:30:00 +0900

I have been working on my SPF project in Swift of late. As part of this I have started to deal with substrings. “A slice of a string” according to Apple Documentation. In dealing with this, I have found myself quite often converting substrings back to normal strings. Today we will look at how we can pass substrings directly by making our functions generic.

Swift: Deconstruct SPF - Struct Mechanism

Wed, 19 May 2021 18:00:00 +0900

Today, I will start on building out the functionality of the struct Mechanism.
This will involve creating some tests, and basic functions.

Rust: Domain Name Validation

Tue, 18 May 2021 16:50:00 +0900

Recently, as I work my way through learning bits of rust, I have been thinking that I should in corporate some form of input validation for domains.

Today I will look at two crates.

Swift: Deconstruct SPF an Outline and Background

Mon, 17 May 2021 12:15:00 +0900

What is SPF

If you have not followed my rust series on deconstructing SPF you can check it out here.

Swift: Deconstruct SPF Getting Started

Thu, 13 May 2021 20:00:00 +0900

In my previous series “Learning Rust”. I decided to attempt to learn some fairly basic rust concepts and constructs by working on a fairly simple project. This seemed to go fairly well. So I am now going to attempt to work on the same project, but this time, using Swift.

Rust: Move from binary to library and Add Documentation Examples that are tested.

Tue, 11 May 2021 13:30:00 +0900

In the previous article in this series I went through some basics of documenting your rust code. I had hoped to be able to take advantage of another nice feature of rust. That being the fact that code examples are actually tested by rust. I will go through the changes I had to make for this to work.

Rust: Documenting your Code

Thu, 06 May 2021 11:03:18 +0900

Hi.
As with all projects. It’s important to create documentation. This is, as we know, very important when creating code. When we come back to a project after a break, or if someone new takes over. Documentation will help you remember or learn what the code does. The thinking that was behind certain decisions.

SPF: Adding Support for A and MX Mechanisms in Rust

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 16:30:00 +0900

This is a quick followup on my progress in deconstructing SPF using Rust.
Today I was able to implement both A and MX mechanisms.

Add a New Social to Beautifulhugo

Sun, 25 Apr 2021 23:00:00 +0900

Fairly recently I changed my theme for my personal blog. I switched to Beautifulhugo. I find it to be a nice clean theme.

Beautifulhugo supports a lot of social sites. However, it is also missing some that I like. In particular Dev.to and Flipboard.

I had previously added these to the other theme I was using. So I went about adding them to Beautifulhugo.

Looking at Regex in Rust (Addendum)

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:30:00 +0900

Hi. In my previous article Looking at Regex in Rust. I covered some basics. Today I will go over some new things that I have learned, as I expanded on things that my regex expression needs to handle. In particular the need to handle the possible existence or none existence of qualifiers +,-,~,?.

Looking at Regex in Rust

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 21:58:40 +0900

If you have been following this series, you might know that I am playing with SPF records. I have turned my eye to a and mx mechanisms. As I started looking at the a mechanism. I noticed that my current approach using the standard string functions would probably be fairly difficult to implement. So I started to think about using the Regex crate. So this will be a look at how that went. The challenges and the things that I took away from the experience.

Rust Basic Testing

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:00:00 +0900

As I work through learning rust, I figured it was time to to start doing actual testing.

Why Test

Simple, it’s really essential when building anything beyond a few lines of simple code. Being able to run a series of reproducible tests as you develop; allows you to ensure that changes you make are not breaking exisiting code. You also have the option to develop using TDD.

Of course I have not adhered to any of this as I explore the basics of working with rust. But things are progressing and I should now see how testing basically works in the world of rust.

Manage Rust Code by Breaking it Up

Wed, 14 Apr 2021 15:25:30 +0900

We often start small coding projects, and we often tend to start them off in a single file. But sometimes, the project naturally grows larger and more complex. The code thus becomes more difficult to manage in a single file.

At these times we often need to break the code up across multiple files so that we can focus on a particular functionality. This is where I found myself as I am toying with my SPF code.

Deconstructing SPF with Rust using Generics

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 23:30:00 +0900

As I mentioned in my previous article Deconstructing SPF Records with Rust. There is a case for using generics given the amount of overlap between the different mechanisms.

Deconstructing SPF Records with Rust

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 10:00:00 +0900

Hi. If you have visited my blog before you might have seen my series on using the trust-dns-resolver crate. As part of that series I looked at querying DNS TXT records. During the process I was reminded of SPF records. Something I used to deal with in a previous position. And this got me to thinking about using SPF records as a way to learn more about working with rust.

TXT lookup using the trust-dns-resolver Crate

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 11:30:00 +0900

This is the third article on using the trust-dns-resolver crate
Warning: This code is not intended to be used in production. You should review and adjust to your own needs.

SOA lookup using the trust-dns-resolver Crate

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0900

This is a second article on using the trust-dns-resolver crate
Warning: This code is not intended to be used in production. You should review and adjust to your own needs.

MX and Host lookup using the trust-dns-resolver Crate

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:00:00 +0900

I used to often work with DNS in one of my previous jobs. So I have always had a long running interesting in DNS. Most recently I have been looking into Rust. I wanted to see how easy it might be to use rust to access DNS records, one; because rust is said to be fast, and also because it’s a safe programming language.

Google API Gmail LINE Notifications Part 7

Fri, 12 Feb 2021 09:00:00 +0900

Final part in a series of articles on implementing a notification system using Gmail and Line Bot.

Google API Gmail LINE Notifications Part 6

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 13:30:00 +0900

Part 6 in a series of articles on implementing a notification system using Gmail and Line Bot.

Google API Gmail LINE Notifications Part 5

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 16:30:00 +0900

Part 5 in a series of articles on implementing a notification system using Gmail and Line Bot.

Google API Gmail LINE Notifications Part 4

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 09:00:00 +0900

Part 4 in a series of articles on implementing a notification system using Gmail and Line Bot.

Google API Gmail LINE Notifications Part 3

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 23:00:00 +0900

Part 3 in a series of articles on implementing a notification system using Gmail and Line Bot.

Google API Gmail LINE Notifications Part 2

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 14:15:00 +0900

Part 2 in a series of articles on implementing a notification system using Gmail and Line Bot.

Google API Gmail LINE Notifications Part 1

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 14:00:00 +0900

This will be a series of articles on implementing a notification system using Gmail and Line Bot.
The goal here is to be able to query gmail for a select set of emails. Process them and then send a notification. This could be altered to work with a Bot of some other service.

Generic Regex Match Function Multiple Groups

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 16:00:00 +0900

If you have read my previous posts; you might know I am currently working on a new project to move some services to a self-hosted solution. As part of this, I have been working on dealing with unicode characters in regex.

In relation to this I have found that I am writing the same function repeatedly. The only difference being the number matches being returned. So I decided we need to refactor this.

Working with double-byte regex expressions with Python3

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 12:00:00 +0900

As part of my project Self Hosted Zapier Alternative; I am having to deal with doing regex searches against the three Japanese written forms, Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana.

Project: Self Hosted Zapier Alternative

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 23:00:39 +0900

I am currently in the process of working out how I might replace some of my Zapier services. Why would I want to do this?

I use the free tier. (The process only runs once every 15 minutes. It used to be once every 5 mins.) Which means it has become a bit slow in sending the notifications.
I want to learn how to use Docker

Once I get a bit further along I will hopefully publish the python code to GitHub and document some of the issues and successes as I move along. Check the Projects page section if you are interested.

Send a notification through LINE with AppDaemon with Home Assistant

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 23:00:00 +0900

The challenge

Living in Japan we generally default to using LINE for our messaging needs. At the time of this writing there is no integration for LINE within Home Assistant. Currently I use PushOver for some of my Home Assistant notifications. I also use Zapier with email to trigger notifications to my family LINE group. You can see how I did this here and here.

Detect the OS Perl Code is Running Under

Mon, 14 Dec 2020 13:19:33 +0900

I was looking into updating a couple of my perl modules because rt.cpan.org is being sunset early in 2021. As part of this I thought it was time to stop cpan testers from testing my module under Windows since it is currently not really supported.

I was not sure how to go about doing this, so I reached out the good people in the “Perl Programmers” group on FaceBook. I got some great links and suggestions. In order to make this easy for me to find. I am documenting some of them here.

Raspberry Pi Stretch to Buster Missing Steps

Fri, 11 Dec 2020 13:00:30 +0900

I recently went through the process of upgrading my raspberry Pis from Stretch to Buster. I had previously done this moving from Jessie.

Whilst I had no real issues with task following the guides that I found. I did discover one thing that concerned me, and was missing from the guides.

After upgrading to Buster, my /boot had less than 200kb of free storage.

I did some reading and found that Buster seems to need a lot more space in /boot than for previous releases. Buster itself now defaults to 256M of space for /boot

So I went about solving this issue.

I would suggest that you do these steps before upgrading just to avoid any possible problems.

Bind DNS Setup

Fri, 27 Nov 2020 17:30:00 +0900

A guide on setting up a caching and authoritative name server.

Presence Detection with BLE using monitor.sh & Home Assistant

Tue, 10 Nov 2020 19:30:00 +0900

I have been running Home Assistant for a while. Things are going well. But I have had some issues with presence detection using the standard device_tracker component. Though I live in a small place, being in Tokyo, Home Assistant sometimes stops detecting phones if they are in an area of the apartment a little away from the Home Assistant server. This I suspect is due to the position of the Raspberry Pi and the building material.

Use launchd instead of crontab on your Mac

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 16:30:00 +0900

As of Mac OS 10.4 crontab has been depreciated but not ended. So its a good idea to know how to use its replacement under Mac OS. Welcome to Launchd.

This will be a short guide on how to use launchd in a simple form to replace a crontab job. In my case I am automating the backup of my Plex server. You can see my previous article here

Launchd has a lot of other features. I will not look at them here.

Publish your next Hugo blog post automatically using Github Actions

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 08:00:00 +0900

The Challenge

I wanted to be able to publish a new post that has already been written at a future date, without needing to manually publish the article.

Private Hugo Repo to Public on Github

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 16:51:00 +0900

I was researching ways of moving to Hugo for my site generator. I looked at a few options and as part of this I came a cross a workflow in github that allows me to store my site in a private repo and then publish the site to a public repo without too much fuss.

CI on Github for Python

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0900

So I finally thought it was time to start doing some continuous integration testing as well as testing with multiple versions of Python.

Gmail Zapier LINE Notify

Fri, 24 Jul 2020 15:44:35 +0900

This documents how to setup integration between GMail, Zapier and LINE for any automated notification service received through LINE.

Add a cookie warning notice to a Hugo powered site

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0900

The Challenge

How to add a cookie warning notice to a Hugo powered website. But also avoid using a third party service.

The Solution

Build your own. Well, find someone who built one and shared it on youtube and github.

Privacy Policy

Fri, 10 Jul 2020 10:13:25 +0900

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Who am I?

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 23:55:00 +0900

These days I am a hobbyist programmer. Though my background is in Networking and Unix/Linux administration.

I have been living and working in Tokyo for the past 18 years.

Some of my interests

Software and Systems
- Python
- Perl
- Rust
- Google Script
- Automation
Languages I most frequently use based on Github repositories. Does not denote skill levels.

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Reading

If you are interested in what kind of books I enjoy reading. Check things here

Back up your Plex Media Server on Mac OS

Sat, 16 May 2020 12:00:00 +0900

The Challenge

How to automate the backing up of my Plex Media Server

Solution

A Bash Script

I wanted to automate this process. If I didn’t, it probably wouldn’t get done.

Delay Services launch until external drive mount is complete

Thu, 14 May 2020 14:30:00 +0900

The Challenge

How to give Drobo time to mount before processes that need access to it begin and hence block it’s mounting by having the mount point in use.

Site Launch

Mon, 11 May 2020 00:00:00 +0900

Well. Finally got around to putting this site together. Actually this is attempt number two.

I will try to post some of my small personal projects and thoughts here. I will also probably create a cheat sheet for myself.

Anyway, I shall see how it goes.

Contact

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