Compiling Emacs 30 on macos

New mac, new emacs install. I had to remind myself what I did last time, so I’m documenting it here in the hopes that next time I won’t spend so long on this.

October 14, 2024 · 1 min · 154 words · Giles Paterson

Docker/Colima setup on a Mac

A reminder to myself mostly, on how I setup a colima on my mac to avoid having to use Docker Desktop.

October 14, 2024 · 1 min · 178 words · Giles Paterson

this should be a post

This is an article but should be saved as a post content type

May 29, 2024 · 1 min · 13 words · Giles Paterson

Setting Up Hugo

This site it built with Hugo, which is a static site generator. That means that I write the content as markdown and then use the hugo tool to generate the html etc. that forms this website. I can then copy the html and theme stylesheets to my webhost (using rsync). This is the same approach I took with my other website. One issue I had with my old website was that I was limited to updating the site from my laptop - I couldn’t easily fire off a quick note or post from my phone or elsewhere. Even though I had the site content stroed in github, and I could have setup hugo on other devices it was always a bit of extra friction which allowed my laziness to kick in. ...

May 24, 2024 · 2 min · 397 words · Giles Paterson

New Website

This is just a placeholder website currently, but I intend to use it for my personal profile, technical notes and ideas, and as a fitness activity log. I am intending to follow the indieweb approach as much as possible and also syndicate with my social media presence on the fediverse. I’ve also got an idea for a self hosted strava-like/lite so I can record and display my running and cycling activities.

May 24, 2024 · 1 min · 71 words · Giles Paterson