My First Day With TypeScript
Okay, day-and-a-bit. First impressions! I’ve been coding up a dice roller for a friend’s in-development RPG, and I decided on a whim to give TypeScript… Read More »My First Day With TypeScript
Rob Hallam
Glasgow University graduate. I have wide-ranging interests - please see my about page either here or at roberthallam.com.
Coding Basic Modules For FoundryVTT
Not a guide A while back I installed Foundry VTT, the web-based tabletop system developed by Atropos (It’s great, check it out). I ended up… Read More »Coding Basic Modules For FoundryVTT
Quickly Coding an Animated Team Picker in pygame
Pick a team for me I’ve been known to stream on Twitch, and one of the things I do is a wee informal monthly ‘competition’… Read More »Quickly Coding an Animated Team Picker in pygame
Pi-hole and WireGuard on LXC for Phone Ad-Blocking
Ads-B-Gone I’ve been getting some quite obnoxious ads on my phone of late. In the past, I used Pi-hole, which blocks ads on the network… Read More »Pi-hole and WireGuard on LXC for Phone Ad-Blocking
Samsung S10 phones produce broken MP4s without MOOV atoms
Update 2021-04: There was some discussion of a similar issue over at ffmpeg-user (full thread at nabble). It may not be the same problem, but… Read More »Samsung S10 phones produce broken MP4s without MOOV atoms
Setting up Postgres using Ansible (for Gitea!)
I set up a local Gitea server for some ‘local’ repositories- things like my accounts (in hledger format!) which I wouldn’t want on a server… Read More »Setting up Postgres using Ansible (for Gitea!)
[Resolved] Stackable + Reusable Blocks gives “This block has encountered an error and cannot be previewed”
Blocks in blocks in blocks I recently installed Stackable’s “Ultimate Gutenberg Blocks” plugin for WordPress as I wanted a block that could be expanded for… Read More »[Resolved] Stackable + Reusable Blocks gives “This block has encountered an error and cannot be previewed”
Proxmox snapshots: “The current guest configuration does not support taking new snapshots”
Let me snapshot tl;dr: This can happen if you use a storage mechanism that doesn’t support snapshots (see here for more information). However, it seems… Read More »Proxmox snapshots: “The current guest configuration does not support taking new snapshots”
Turning a Dell Wyse 3040 into an HTPC (Part 4)
A TV needs a remote We’ve been putting together an HTPC using a Dell Wyse 3040 thin client PC. The OS, Arch Linux, has been… Read More »Turning a Dell Wyse 3040 into an HTPC (Part 4)
Turning a Dell Wyse 3040 into an HTPC (Part 3)
Make it work more gracefully We’ve been transforming a Dell Wyse 3040 thin client PC into an HTPC using Arch Linux. Last time in Part… Read More »Turning a Dell Wyse 3040 into an HTPC (Part 3)