I can’t believe that so much time has gone by since I last updated my blog. It feels like the blink of an eye, but I can see that it was last updated in November 2022. In that time I feel like the world has changed. OpenAI launched ChatGPT at the end of November 2022. Nowadays, I can’t imagine coding or problem-solving without the help of an A.I. chatbot. It seems like just as significant a development as the advent of the internet or the mobile phone.
Upgrading Mastodon from 3.5.3 to 4.0.2
You can follow the 3.5.3 to 4.0.0 instructions which are here. Just remember to do git checkout v4.0.2 instead of git checkout v4.0.0.
bash Snapshot File alias
I just created this useful bash function for snapshotting a timestamped version of a file:
A lot has happened
A lot has happened since I last updated this blog. In January 2020, Helen and I decided to move back to Sydney. Over a year later, we finally managed to fly back to Australia.
Vaccine - first dose received!
This morning I received the first dose of the Astra Zenica Covid vaccine. The process was super efficient. It was at the Business Design Centre in Angel, which is a lovely building.
When Assistant doesn't work in Xcode
I often have a problem in Xcode when I am working in the Storyboard, when I click on “Assistant” to open the related ViewController to add an Outlet or Action, and Assistant can’t find the related file.
Installing certbot on Amazon Linux 2 AMI
The steps to install certbot on an Amazon Linux 2 EC2 instance are:
Using SQLite from Swift
It’s been a while since I experimented with using SQLite from Swift (like a few years). I found it painful the last time I tried, but thought I’d revisit it again. To my delight, it turns out to be straightforward.
Happy New Year 2021
It’s another year! What a weird year 2020 was. Helen and I started the year in Australia. We travelled back to the UK at the end of February thinking that we would move back to Sydney in July/August. Instead we got stuck in the UK because of the pandemic.
Limbo and Inside
This past week Helen and I have been playing “Limbo” and “Inside” by Playdead on the XBox. These are such good games! Both Limbo and Inside have tons of atmosphere. They are a moody, luscious side-scroller games. The puzzles are engaging, and you never feel like you are completely stuck. Ironically, we both thought that the hardest puzzle in “Inside” was the very first one in the farm, which you get to quite early on.