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Summary Commake (Common Makefile) is a base template for a makefile / justfile that you can use in your software project. Its purpose is to simplify the process of checking or installing dependencies and running the project, without needing to remember specific commands or constantly refer to the README. To get started with a project, simply run (or use the equivalent just commands): $ make init #…
One Ingredient Challenge is a month-long challenge where you only eat foods containing a single ingredient. This means any food items with exactly one ingredient on the package are fine; any with an ingredients list longer than one are disallowed. The challenge aims to make me more conscious of the food I eat. This already threw up a surprise: one of my fajita mix’s main ingredients is…
The American Express website has many cashback offers. These offers give you cashback if you spend a certain amount at a shop. This bookmarklet lets you quickly enable all the offers in the list. Drag the following link to your bookmarks bar or right-click and choose “Save to bookmarks”: Amex Enable All Offers (Note: You do need to click the show more button to get the entire list of offers on the…
Whilst creating a mixed form, there were fields that did not match the default style of a Select2 input. I created this bit of CSS that provides a style which can be applied to the other fields so they match. Feel free to use this code. This is what the page looked like before: The page with the CSS applied: As you can see the input and textarea now look much more like the Select2 box in the…
The story of how a Wii Fit and Raspberry Pi board didn’t change my behavior but ignited a desire that I didn’t know I had. This is the fifth and final part of this series; the first post is here . The alarm clock in its final position. On 21 July 2020, I promptly stepped on the alarm clock at 6am and calmly stood there for a full minute in the cool summer morning. After coming to grips with the…
This is the fourth part of this series; the first post is here . This part covers the software and setup for the Wii balance board alarm clock project. The brief The main requirement for this project is that it acts as an alarm, requires me to stand on the board for a given length of time (60 seconds), and records and stores my weight. Here is a flow diagram for my requirements: Code The code can…
Before the 1970s, there were only a couple of ways to contact someone: physically (by post or simply showing up at their house) or by landline. In the digital age, the options seem endless, with major categories being social networks, communication apps, and workplace instant messaging. One of the common features of instant messengers is that they are all incompatible with each other. If I want to…
This is the fourth part of this series; the first post is here . I was nervous, as previous projects have gone wrong at this stage. As things are made permanent, if a problem arises it’s much more difficult to fix, since you can’t easily access the connections to diagnose the issue. Getting off the breadboard The first step was to carefully transfer each electrical connection from the breadboard…