Month: March 2021
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Automatically filling in the UK COVID test results page with Selenium IDE
Lots of people are filling in the extremely detailed UK government COVID test result page twice every week. It asks you to fill in a very large list of details, most of which are the same every time, but it doesn’t remember what you typed last time. I …
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Visual Lint 8.0 has been released
The first public build of Visual Lint 8.0 has just been uploaded to our website. As of today, Visual Lint 8.0 replaces Visual Lint 7.0 as the current supported Visual Lint version. As such Visual Lint 8.0 licences (as well as upgrades for Visual Lint 6…
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Visual Lint 8.0 has been released
The first public build of Visual Lint 8.0 has just been uploaded to our website. As of today, Visual Lint 8.0 replaces Visual Lint 7.0 as the current supported Visual Lint version. As such Visual Lint 8.0 licences (as well as upgrades for Visual Lint 6…
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Toggle window decorations on Linux GTK3 with Python3
The Internet is full of outdated Python code for doing things with windows, so here is what I got working today in a Python 3, GTK 3 environment. This script toggles the window decorations on the active window on and off. I have it bound to Ctrl+NumPad…
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Ticket Maps
It has been an increasingly common scenario that I’ve encountered where you have some ID that’s monotonically increasing, such as a subscription or connection index, or user ID, and you need your C++ program to hold some data that’s associated with tha…
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Questions about RFC 8771
During my work on RFC 8771 The Internationalized Deliberately Unreadable Network NOtation (I-DUNNO) I have come across a number of questions. I am documenting them here so I can send them to the authors and try to improve my understanding of the intent…
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Announcing Rust I-DUNNO
At the ACCU Conference last week I learned about RFC 8771 The Internationalized Deliberately Unreadable Network NOtation (I-DUNNO) from Jim Hague, and thought it would be fun to knock up a Rust implementation. The project is here: gitlab.com/andybalaam…
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Letter to my MP on Yemen
Sent via WriteToThem on Monday 1 March 2021. Dear Ben Spencer, Your experience on the front line in medicine means you are probably much more able than I to imagine the human impact of the situation in Yemen. On Sunday OCHA stated that 16 million peopl…