Will Jessop's Writings

Sailing, Food, Programming, Technology, and other things

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  1. 3D Printing (16 posts)
    Latest post: Final robot photos

    The final photos of my finished ping pong ball robot

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  2. Aws (3 posts)
    Latest post: AWS IAM Policy for allowing s3cmd to sync to an S3 bucket

    I needed s3cmd to sync some local files to a remove S3 bucket and had to work out the IAM permissions to allow this.

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  3. Baking (2 posts)
    Latest post: Simple Sourdough Bread

    A simple, fast and reliable method for making sourdough bread

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  4. CAD (2 posts)
    Latest post: OpenSCAD robot base design

    I switched from Sketchup to OpenSCAD

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  5. Cooking (3 posts)
    Latest post: Simple Sourdough Bread

    A simple, fast and reliable method for making sourdough bread

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  6. Design (1 posts)
    Latest post: Fitting two hard drives and an SSD in a Dell OptiPlex 7010 SFF

    The Dell OptiPlex 7010 SFF officially only has room for one 2.5" hard drive internally, I fitted two 3.25" hard drives and a 2.5" SSD in one.

  7. Electronics (15 posts)
    Latest post: Using the T67XX CO₂ Sensor Module in Go

    Getting CO₂ readings and more from the T67XX CO2 Sensor Module in Go

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  8. Firefox (2 posts)
    Latest post: Reverting Firefox's recent URL bar suggestion order change

    In a recent update Firefox changed the order of it’s URL bar suggestions order to make search suggestions appear first before recently visited URLs. This is annoying so I changed it back.

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  9. Github (3 posts)
    Latest post: Full-height Github "checks" box in Firefox

    No more scolling the checks box on Github when you have plenty of screen space to display it

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  10. Go (7 posts)
    Latest post: Converting a wordpress.com dump to Hugo, including images

    I wanted to convert my old wordpress.com articles to Hugo and all off the “official” methods were cumbersome so I wrote a somewhat rough but fast and simple program to do the conversion for me.

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  11. MacOS (3 posts)
    Latest post: Error installing libv8 on Mac OS Catalina

    If you are getting a “fatal error: ‘climits’ file not found” error installing libv8 on Catalina then this post is for you.

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  12. Meta (3 posts)
    Latest post: Converting a wordpress.com dump to Hugo, including images

    I wanted to convert my old wordpress.com articles to Hugo and all off the “official” methods were cumbersome so I wrote a somewhat rough but fast and simple program to do the conversion for me.

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  13. Pasta (1 posts)
    Latest post: Basic pasta sauce

    In which I go through how I make a basic tomato, garlic and pasely or basil pasta sauce, with some optional variations.

  14. Performance (4 posts)
    Latest post: You should use the Ruby on Rails logger block syntax

    A description of how to save memory and CPU time using the Ruby on Rails logger block syntax with examples of the memory saved

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  15. Postgres (3 posts)
    Latest post: Finding Postgres rows too large for BTree indexes

    How I found and fixed the rows in our database that exceeded the BTree index size, preventing our migration to AlloyDB.

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  16. Programming (24 posts)
    Latest post: You should use the Ruby on Rails logger block syntax

    A description of how to save memory and CPU time using the Ruby on Rails logger block syntax with examples of the memory saved

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  17. Rails (1 posts)
    Latest post: You should use the Ruby on Rails logger block syntax

    A description of how to save memory and CPU time using the Ruby on Rails logger block syntax with examples of the memory saved

  18. Raspberry Pi (10 posts)
    Latest post: Using the T67XX CO₂ Sensor Module in Go

    Getting CO₂ readings and more from the T67XX CO2 Sensor Module in Go

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  19. Robotics (21 posts)
    Latest post: Final robot photos

    The final photos of my finished ping pong ball robot

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  20. Ruby (11 posts)
    Latest post: You should use the Ruby on Rails logger block syntax

    A description of how to save memory and CPU time using the Ruby on Rails logger block syntax with examples of the memory saved

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  21. Ruby on Rails (1 posts)
    Latest post: You should use the Ruby on Rails logger block syntax

    A description of how to save memory and CPU time using the Ruby on Rails logger block syntax with examples of the memory saved

  22. Sailing (1 posts)
    Latest post: Will's YouTube sailing channel recommendations

    A list of YouTube sailing channels that Will recommends to either learn more about sailing, or just to live vicariously through the experiences of others.

  23. Tech (37 posts)
    Latest post: Final robot photos

    The final photos of my finished ping pong ball robot

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  24. Wtf (1 posts)
    Latest post: Paula Deen riding things

    Do you want to see Paula Deen riding a sausage? Because now you can.