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po ru com archive miscellaneous about search latest 2026 05 25 week 281 melting hello from london on a 34 c bank holiday monday i ve lived in hotter places i ve even lived in places that were both hotter and more humid yet the uk remains one of the worst places to be in a heatwave there s little air conditioning and british houses lack the thermal mass to regulate the temperature downwards all they can do is keep the sun off at best friday was also hot and i decided to spend it walking in the countryside i followed saturday walkers club s harlington to flitwick route cutting off a couple of kilometres between priestly farm and flitwick at the end to get back home at a reasonable time i don t know the exact distance but it was at least 20 km huge daisies in a field somewhere near harlington i saw plenty of wildlife a deer possibly a muntjac a cock pheasant a couple of red kites some kind of large raptor being harried by a crow until it flew away it was hot and tiring but a good way to spend a day off we did half of our sanshinkai practice in the park on saturday i appreciated the cool breeze but i think the dancers appreciated it more a few curious passers by came to watch and ask questions i restored an old film camera it s an olympus pen s a beautiful tiny manual half frame camera i e it takes portrait photos that are half the width of a normal 35mm frame designed by yoshihisa maitani in the late 1950s i have the version with a 30 mm f 2 8 lens i picked it up cheap and as far as i can tell there s nothing wrong with it beyond some degraded light seals i measured and cut new seals and installed them as to how well it worked i ll have to wait until i ve finished off the roll of film and had it developed and even the 72 frame roll of film two frames per normal frame and had it developed if they re good i ll post the svg templates for the benefit of others someone from openreach came to carry out the initial stages of fibre installation they couldn t get the cable to the front of our house though because the duct is buried under two layers of paving slabs it seems that whichever cowboys installed the ugly paving in front of our house just laid them directly on a set of very similar ugly paving the suction device he used to lift the paving like a reverse hovercraft that stuck itself onto the slab and provided a grab handle was impressive though they re going to come back and install a box in the pavement in front of our house but we still have to figure out how to get the cable across ideally we d get rid of the slabs entirely but i don t think that will happen in time and if we don t we ll end up with an exposed cable run across the top that makes it harder to sort out the front garden in the future that s all for now it s too hot older 2026 05 21 git push directly to another workstation you don t need github to work with git on multiple computers and you don t even need a git remote set up to do it sometimes i m working on some code that is incomplete or is speculative or there s another reason that i don t want to push it to the remote branch yet but i need to swap from my desktop to my laptop or vice versa git is a distributed version control system but i think people often forget what that implies a git repository can be as simple as a directory available via ssh which means that your other computer is already a git repository as long as you can ssh to it more 2026 05 20 week 280 six days notice amazon sent me an email on 14 may to tell me that my old kindle would be completely unsupported starting may 20 2026 i e six days later more 2026 05 12 using a u2f key instead of a password on linux this is an update and expansion on something i wrote a few years ago about using my solokey u2f usb key for passwordless sudo more 2026 05 11 week 279 two out of three it was a short work week thanks to the bank holiday on monday i spent a few hours on monday typesetting various pieces of music i feel like i understand lilypond better and better more older entries can be found in the archive email github mastodon subscribe my name is paul battley i live in rotherhithe in london and i work with software and the internet for a living po ru com is my personal website in which i write about my interests languages music programming food politics and anything else read more about me copyright paul battley 2002 2026
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