It was amazing to see humanity go back to the moon. My favourite must be the Earth photo. See the larger version of this image at https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55185633398/. Look at that thin slice of air around the earth. Our atmosphere looks so thin ! Check out all the pictures taken during the mission: https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii-multimedia/.
I have embraced the Unix philosophy of small tools done well. It started when I resolved to use Bash to solve weekly challenges at work (another neat idea, more on that another time!). Here’s some neat little tricks I have learned over time : sort -n : sort numerically sort -k 1 : sort by a field sort -t "/" -k 3 : sort by the third field, split by “/”
A developer came to me with a great piece of code to automate something. Clearly they have put a good amount of thought about the amount of times this thing has been done manually and has done the important work of codifying it enough such that it can be run by a computer. We both asked the question “What’s next ?”
I’m always surprised when I plug in the family’s external HD and find that my Mac refuses to write to it. Hopefully one day, it will be fixed. So what do I do ?
On the 15th of March, 2017, I marked 7 years with Powershop ! 🎉
Sometime in the future, possibly in 2017, Chrome is seeking to mark all non-secure sites with a bold and loud warning. For website administrators and server operators, this is one to watch out for.
It was a great pleasure and honour to give a talk at RubyConf Australia 2016 in Gold Coast, in the month of February 2016.
I wanted to convert a array of [item1, item2, item3] to {item1 => {item2 => item3}}. Here is the quick and dirty code I came up with…
Thanks to the magic of static site generators, I’ve now moved from Blogger to Hugo. All static site generators are much for muchness, but Hugo appealed to me with the chance of at least hacking in Go. The main benefit though would be archive all my writing in git - which can now be found at https://github.com/kuahyeow/kuahyeow-blog The code to generate my blog is kept in a separate repository. Besides the folders to drive Hugo, I have included a home-made Blogger to Hugo importer. See https://github.com/kuahyeow/kuahyeow-hugo/blob/master/importedFromBlogger/blogger2markdown.rb for full gory details.
Here’s a behind the scenes write-up for my Mix and Mash NZ mashup. Check it out here : http://www.landandwaste.co.nz This mashup attempts to show land and waste data as it changes, and hopefully illuminates any improvements of our environmental impact as well as regressions. The journey It started out as an idea to gather all kerb recycling data from all 75 odd local councils in New Zealand. That meant scraping the data off the websites of various local and unitary councils. I quickly backed away once I found that lots of councils forbade any re-use, and the data that’s available is too inconsistent for me to compare and visualize.