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Went out to see the partial solar eclipse this evening… Quite a lot of other people were out and about with their cars parked on the sides of the roads in the countryside, presumably doing the same thing.

I recently bought an Evoworks Evo80 mechanical keyboard following a recommendation to me after I was looking for a new decent keyboard, having been using a very cheap / budget Kensington one I got as a ‘placeholder’ since needing a new desktop keyboard af…

Now that I’m commuting regularly again using UK public transport, given the occasional (at least so far for me on the days I commute!)

Since I got back to the UK, I’ve been trying to understand and take more of an interest in what’s going on here again (although unfortunately, that’s often somewhat depressing across the political spectrum), and one area I’ve been looking into is Electric…

This is mostly a post to try and get me to start blogging a bit more again, but I will try and make it potentially useful… When I returned to the United Kingdom from New Zealand last year, I had four laptops (and some other smaller electronic gear) in tot…

Another attempt of my spin on a map visualisation I spotted online.

For the past four years, as a background side-project I’ve been (more slowly and sporadically recently) working on developing sitemon3, a re-design and re-write of sitemon2 as a distributed system (rather than the monolith the previous version was), whilst

Essentially this is a post to try and prompt me to start blogging a bit again with a bit of an update… I’ve been back in the United Kingdom for a few months now after deciding earlier this year that almost 10 years in New Zealand was enough, and that it w…

It looks like Apple MacOS 15.4 (even the .1 patch) has broken Quick Look (using the Space key in Finder) for some RAW files from cameras, as the previews for .cr2 files from (somewhat) more recent cameras like my Canon EOS 5D Mk IV and my previous Canon E…

This week I got my Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM lens back from Canon Service after it being fixed by them.

Last weekend my Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM lens developed a fault whereby my DSLR camera would show an “Err 01”, “Communication between the camera and lens is faulty.” error when trying to take a picture.

Ever since I previously generated median average images from multiple days of satellite imagery, I’ve wanted to try and generate newer higher-resolution versions, as well as to do so for other areas of the Earth’s surface, and also to try generating per-m…