George Honeywood's blog

Despite being on an estate that is pretty well connected to the internet, our block was the exception.

This post is written in Typst!

(2025-11-02 update: I’ve now done this much more cleanly, by forking and modifying Hugo such that it can render .typ files directly.

I wanted to do something a bit weird the other day.

My desk-dominating Oki Microline 320 Elite dot matrix printer The joy of the dot matrix printer is how simple the interface is – it’s just a file, /dev/usb/lp0.

I am quite a big fan of ZFS.

Typst is pretty much what I have been looking for since I was about 15 and had to write my first long form report for school.

So I have a little Tenda PA6 Powerline/HomePlug WiFi extender that I use as an additional WAP in the attic room of my house.

Preamble This is the formal report I produced as part of the final year of my B.Sc.

This is a summary of the Final Year Project that I completed as part of my last year at Royal Holloway.

I study at Royal Holloway, a university probably most well known for the iconic Founder’s Building.

For Christmas one of my housemates got us a second-hand Roomba.

I’ve become a bit obsessed with typewriters.

Since I’ve started using VS Code over SSH, I’ve encountered the slight irritation that the session will drop when I suspend my laptop.

I’ve recently had an opportunity to do some work away from home.

I’ve been working on a tool that takes an OpenStreetMap history file and creates a database with every version of the way that has existed.

Recently I stumbled upon on a page on the OpenStreetMap wiki which details some of the significant non-volunteer sources for OSM’s data (and takes an amusingly long time to load).

demo Last weekend I took part in a hackathon with 3 of my housemates.

A couple of years ago I decided that it would be a great idea if I tried to remove as much Google from my life as possible.

the problem One of the most satisfying things for me, as a contributor to OSM, is to see how my changes have improved the map for everyone.

I’m going to use this blog to write about random things I care about.