Recent pages on charlieharvey.org.uk

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Not only that, the need for wood c </description> <author>Charlie Harvey</author> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/smokeandmirrors_immersive</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:59:29 -0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>March-May Reading</title> <link>http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/2017_030405_reading</link> <description><img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/reviews/2017-walkaway.jpg">Doctorow is both an entertaining author and very much on the right (by which I mean left/anarchist) side of politics. His futuristic utopia is set in a world where people are kept artificially poor in the midst of post scarcity merely to keep the capit </description> <author>Charlie Harvey</author> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/2017_030405_reading</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2017 21:09:09 -0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>TwatBegone: A much nicer twitter</title> <link>http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/twatbegone_userscript</link> <description><img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/geekery/twatbegone.jpg">A while ago, my buddy Oxguin was thinking about the blocking on Twitter, specifically because of Donald Trump. What happens, you see, is that when Trump says something twattish, as he is wont to do, all the non-twattish people on Twitter start telling him how much of a twat he is for saying it. </description> <author>Charlie Harvey</author> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/twatbegone_userscript</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 1 May 2017 21:24:39 -0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>The authentic, hand-curated Hipster menu crafter</title> <link>http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/hipster_menu_crafter</link> <description><img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="https://static.pexels.com/photos/6969/sunset-summer-hipster-pipe.jpg">Since the world, or at least the UK, seems to have decided to Gastrate all its pubs and the hipsters have taken over even once proudly grim local boozers, it seemed important to invent a tool to generate hipster menu items. And it should be written in vintage javascript, of course.So let me pres </description> <author>Charlie Harvey</author> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/hipster_menu_crafter</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2017 09:03:33 -0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>January/February 2017 Reading</title> <link>http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/2017_0102_reading</link> <description><img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/reviews/2017-pirate-utopia.jpg">Bruce Sterling is that other cyberpunk author. He is back to writing counterfactual alternative histories examining what may have been had things just happened to turn out slightly differently (cf. steampunk bible and Victorian romp The Differen </description> <author>Charlie Harvey</author> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/2017_0102_reading</guid> <pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2017 16:01:52 -0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Quick tip: Close hung SSH sessions and other escape sequences</title> <link>http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/ssh_escape_hung_session</link> <description><img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/geekery/ssh-book.jpg">Here is a quick SSH tip that I only discovered a month or two ago despite years of using SSH on a daily basis. When SSH freezes, as can sometimes happen if the network connection drops, it is possible to kill the connection more elegantly than just by closing the terminal tab (my previous way of dea </description> <author>Charlie Harvey</author> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/ssh_escape_hung_session</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 4 Jan 2017 13:46:09 -0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Solving binary puzzles with Haskell</title> <link>http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/solving_binary_pussles_with_haskell</link> <description><img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/geekery/binary-puzzle.jpg">I first came across binary puzzles in early 2013 after finding a book of them in a Belgian supermarket, not long after I first came across Haskell. And I believe that I've now published the first solver for binary puzzles written in Haskell. And it only took 3 years ;-)The puzzles are a little lik </description> <author>Charlie Harvey</author> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/solving_binary_pussles_with_haskell</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2017 16:09:12 -0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>December 2016 reading</title> <link>http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/2016_12_reading</link> <description><img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/reviews/anglo-saxons.jpg">This is a pretty comprehensive 'brief' history of the Anglo-Saxons - from the decline of the Romano-British culture in (what we now call) England up until the arrival of the Normans and indeed beyond. Hindley investigates </description> <author>Charlie Harvey</author> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/2016_12_reading</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:17:51 -0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>November 2016 Reading</title> <link>http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/2016_11_reading</link> <description><img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/reviews/silas-marner.jpg">This novel was one of a trove I inherited from my parents, a gift for my mother on her 20th birthday. It tells the story of a weaver, formerly a religious nonconformist and now miser, who discovers a meaning in life other than gold when an orphan c </description> <author>Charlie Harvey</author> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/2016_11_reading</guid> <pubDate>Sun, 4 Dec 2016 12:37:43 -0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Au revoir Twitterfeed. Bonjour RSSTwit.</title> <link>http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/goodbye_twitterfeed_hallo_rsstwit</link> <description><img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/twitterfeed.jpg">A few weeks ago, I received an email from Twitterfeed’s founder, a chap called Mario. In unnecessarily jolly prose, it announced the demise of the service which turned RSS feeds into Tweets and recommended moving to dlvr.it or Buffer. We’re writing to let you know that Twitterfeed wi </description> <author>Charlie Harvey</author> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/goodbye_twitterfeed_hallo_rsstwit</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2016 09:04:59 -0000</pubDate> </item> </channel> </rss>

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