Dal Blog


  • Home

  • Archives

  • Tags

  • About

  • Search

Wiggly lines bike edit

Posted on 2020-07-21
I did a cute lil After Effects video of a motorbike moment.
Read more »

UQCS talk: The Backstory on Stuxnet

Posted on 2020-03-30
I gave a talk for the UQ Computing Society, and here's the recording.
Read more »

Forcing iCloud to keep a local copy of a file

Posted on 2020-02-22
iCloud is not as smart as it should be and can't be configured enough to make up for that, so here's a workaround.
Read more »

Putting a layer of tinfoil onto Firefox

Posted on 2019-12-07
Firefox is a lovely browser. But there are a few default behaviours which are tuned for user-friendliness instead of caution.
Read more »

UQCS lightning talk: Requests

Posted on 2019-08-15
I gave a lightning talk for the UQ Computing Society on the Requests library for Python.
Read more »

Thrills

Posted on 2019-07-23

People talk about the exhilaration of motorcycling. And they’re not wrong.

Read more »

The New Zealand scoping trip

Posted on 2019-07-13
Thanks to everybody who contributed career advice during this trip.
Read more »

Reflections on an MT-07

Posted on 2019-05-08
"Try to take off without the throttle for a bit," advised the owner of the bike shop. "We've had someone flip this before - we reckon he stalled it a few times then revved it and dumped the clutch."
Read more »

How to create a package in Spacemacs, for the programmer in a hurry

Posted on 2019-04-25
Suppose you want to create a new minor mode called `bulletins-mode`, and you're feeling inspired, so you want to get it usable ASAP, without worrying about the ideal way to do it. This is slightly harder to do in Spacemacs than in core Emacs.
Read more »

Making Emacs buttons with CVE IDs

Posted on 2019-04-17
Here's my latest Emacs tweak: turning all CVE identifiers in a document into buttons.
Read more »

A dream car on a budget

Posted on 2018-08-22
Turns out: You can pack a picnic and spend all day behind the wheel of a V8 Mustang GT for $400, if you live in the right corner of the world.
Read more »

More asyncio queues

Posted on 2018-07-28
Now with a signal object and termination/cleanup.
Read more »

Recording & censoring gifs on macOS

Posted on 2018-07-27
How to record your screen and turn it into an animated gif.
Read more »

asyncio queues

Posted on 2018-06-12

Here’s a toy program I wrote today in Python 3.6, to try out the asyncio.Queue object. One coroutine pushes an item to the queue every second, and two more fetch them from the queue and “process” them. Over time, the processors are too slow and the queue builds up.

Read more »

Would you rather have the dollar?

Posted on 2018-03-17
Do I four-hundred-dollars want this?
Read more »
1 2 3
David Lord

David Lord

I'm interested in things.

40 posts
45 tags
RSS
github twitter
© 2015 - 2024 David Lord
Powered by Jekyll
Theme - NexT.Muse
Subscribe via RSS