Here’s a great workflow for Alfred which sends your clipboard to an iOS device via the wonderful Command-C: Command-C supports x-callback-url which I can use in Alfred workflow. I create an Alfred workflow called Command-C that contains basic custom actions to send clipboard from Mac to selected iOS devices. There are three types of supported …
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Testing repositories with private submodules in Travis
Recently I’ve been working on a project we’re testing in Travis CI and we need to include some submodules referencing private GitHub repositories then run the tests on the combined code. Naturally Travis fails to retrieve the submoduled repositories, because it’s not authorised to do so. This is how we’re getting around that…
The Business of Open Source – at WordPress Bucharest
Last Friday I was honoured to be invited to speak about the Business of Open Source at the WordPress Bucharest meetup.
Removing files called X and containing Y in Bash
I recently had cause to remove all files with a particular name and containing a particular string from some production servers. Below is the Gist I used to do it.
Taking apart the 23003.31 model ceramic lamp holder
I spent HOURS googling for how to disassemble these lamp holders, and even longer sitting trying to get the darned things apart by hand. In the end, as is so often the way, my dad came to stay and he worked it out (although in my defence it did take him hours too).
Making a Penguin birthday cake
I’ve always made Rufus’ birthday cakes since he was born, and I didn’t want to fall at the first hurdle. Last year, a monkey cake, and this year… a penguin. Luckily the first Google search result for “penguin cake” looked both amazing and relatively easy.
Organised my spices today
All about WordPress Web Addresses
I’ve given this presentation at WordCamp London 2015, and last night at the Manchester WordPress User Group. Essentially the talk title is a trojan horse to talk about rewrite rules and regular expressions, without everyone running out of the room screaming because I put “regex” in the talk title. ;)
A day out at Seven Sisters Farm
Having eyed up a farm with a £9 ticket price and balked, yesterday we visited the smaller Seven Sisters Farm where Roo (now nearly two) could stroke (and get licked by) some calves, play on a rocker and swings, generally have a run around, and the grown ups could admire the calf shed wooden panelling (honestly, …
MWUG notes from Wednesday 21 January 2015
Some notes from last night’s MWUG meeting. Something I don’t get along to often enough, as Mike has mentioned on occasion. :)