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lewis

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Senior software engineer, cyclist, film lover, sci-fi and horror reader, and a Dad

Substitutes obsession with bikes for a personality.

Harmful to aquatic life. Dispose responsibly.

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7622 https://rknight.me/blog/7622/

Wanna know the ridiculous reason I spell my name with 2 Bs? You got it.

#WeblogPoMo2024

lewis,
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@robb @maique I have a somewhat-similar situation with my school friends. Both my first and surnames are also first names, so teachers always called me “Dale”, which stuck to the point where I just went by Dale until I went to uni.

There are people I was friends with for years who had no idea my name was Lewis

lewis, to cycling
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New account, new (okay actually the same introduction, pasted):

I'm Lewis, a software engineer from Manchester, UK. I like building dumb stuff for the web, occasionally breaking my personal site, and sometimes being productive.

I also like to post about , and progress with a bike restoration/maintenance project I decided to spend all of my money on.

lewis, to cycling
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📝 New post: Macclesfield Bikeathon

Just some thoughts about finishing the Macclesfield Bikeathon yesterday

🔗 https://lewisdale.dev/post/macclesfield-bikeathon/

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📝 New post: My favourite albums

It's Saturday, so let's take a break from Golang to hear a rundown of my 5 favourite albums

🔗 https://lewisdale.dev/post/my-favourite-albums/

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📝 New post: Adding some slashpages

Inspired by the release of slashpages.net, I've added a couple to my blog

🔗 https://lewisdale.dev/post/adding-some-slashpages/

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New post: Using Gitea/Github actions for triggering Echo

I decided to start using Robb Knight’s Echo tool, to syndicate my blog posts to Mastodon, and trigger Webmentions. I’m not going to go through the configuration of Echo here, the project README has some good instructions for setting it up. However, I […]

Read it: https://lewisdale.dev/post/using-gitea-github-actions-for-triggering-echo/

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📝 New post: WeblogPoMo 2024

Once again unable to say no to a commitment, I&;ve signed up to WeblogPoMo 2024, in which I post something to my blog every day for the month of May

🔗 https://lewisdale.dev/post/weblogpomo-2024/

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18 months of hearing "AI is going to revolutionise everything", 0 months of AI revolutionising anything

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⭐ The Weird, Secretive World of Crisp Flavours https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/dec/02/the-weird-secretive-world-of-crisp-flavours

This is fascinating.

📌 https://rknight.me/links/the-weird-secretive-world-of-crisp-flavours/

lewis,
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@robb "She speaks clearly, in a way that is reminiscent of a teacher or a steadfast multigrain snack."

Exquisite reporting, I love this

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New post: It's CSS Naked Day

It’s CSS Naked Day[1], so to celebrate I’ve stripped all of the CSS from my
blog. I’ve added a quick Nunjucks shortcode to make it easier, so the CSS should automagically reappear tomorrow morning […]

Read it: https://lewisdale.dev/post/it-s-css-naked-day/

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I'm so exhausted by various self-hosted projects that say "It's easy to host on {Netlify|Vercel|CloudFlare}" with no thought about what happens when those companies no longer offer a free tier, get too expensive, or you just want to move off of them. One specific host as part of the infrastructure is a terrible idea.

Do you know what's nice and easy to install on a server and not locked to one vendor? PHP. https://rknight.me/notes/202405211209/

lewis,
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@robb I didn't even realise people wrote PHP anymore

🎣

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Trying Raycast: Part One https://rknight.me/blog/trying-raycast-part-one/

Day one for

lewis,
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@robb I can't believe it happened.

On the toggle part, a fair few of them are built into Raycast by default - searching "toggle" gives me the ability to toggle dark mode, bluetooth, fullscreen, mute etc

lewis,
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@robb Looks like there are a couple, but also I imagine your Alfred workflows would be transferrable too if you'd rather keep them all in one place

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New keyboard coming tomorrow 🎉

lewis,
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@robb it’s for putting on your Panic! button

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Me since started nursery
https://bugle.lol/@daddy/4428e3a7-6df8-4807-8137-87bf744c51f8

lewis,
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@robb The good news is that it does eventually slow down

The bad news is that by that point Baby Knight will probably be starting school & you get a whole new virus soup to enjoy

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The Fibonacci sequence can be found all throughout the natural world, including on this busted digital McDonalds drive-thru sign.

lewis,
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@adam Guess the milkshake machine was broken again

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PSA: don't cycle across a wet metal bridge

GIF of handlebar camera footage from a bike. As I reach the bridge I suddenly fall sideways and hit the ground.

lewis,
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@sarajw I'm fine thanks, a couple of scrapes and bruises but nothing too serious! Will be avoiding that bridge from now on 😅

belldotbz, to random
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This is a rather interesting read https://kevquirk.com/mastodon-is-ddosing-me

Hat tip to @hdv for the link

lewis,
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@belldotbz @hdv I feel like the ActivityPub spec should be extended so that metadata like open graph images can be sent along with posts containing links, so they're only fetched once. The caveat to that being it becomes hard to update it once it's out - but that's already the case, so 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Can’t believe they called the feedback in the new Apple pencil “haptic" instead of "hand throb”

lewis,
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@robb @jonathanreed So you had so many opportunities to not post this?

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I need your advice on testing React. I want to mock API responses, but without using a complex Docker setup. Ideally, a way to simply say what fetch should return. Then I can test that the UI correctly responds to every scenario provided by the API contract. Was thinking Jest.

lewis,
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@afilina I've used this before: https://mswjs.io/docs/integrations/node/

It's a bit fiddly to get setup initially, but it does work fairly well.

The other way I've done it is to have the calling function/class take a fetchFn, which defaults to native fetch, but for tests I can pass a mocked function in instead

lewis, to random
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I’m very glad I prepared my first weeks posts. Moving house this weekend and we won’t have internet until Tuesday at the earliest, so no chance to write anything this weekend

lewis,
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In other news, buying a superking-sized bed seems like a great idea until you have to move it

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Anyone got a spare £400 I could have for the toaster of my dreams https://www.homeboundessentials.com/products/revolutiontouch-pro-high-speed-smart-toaster-elevate-your-breakfast-game

lewis,
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@robb Taking bets on how long before EchoFeed has a toaster integration

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Every Phone I've Ever Owned https://rknight.me/blog/every-phone-ive-ever-owned/

Now I've written this I really want to try and buy them all again.

lewis,
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@robb @bendaubney My Dad had it and it's still his favourite phone. I remember him giddily watching Spiderman 3 on it, because it came preloaded and it was the first time he'd ever been able to watch a video on a phone.

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