Tue 11 Dec 2018
BalenaEtcher external
Usually I would use dd to write images to SD cards but I always worry I will mess it up. Today I used BalenaEtcher and it was dead simple and worked really well.Tue 06 Nov 2018
Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours external
"A recreation of the original 1821 color guidebook with new cross references, photographic examples, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux" Quite simply a beautiful website.Wed 24 Oct 2018
A Question of Timing external
I saw this blog from Cloudflare via a tweet from Ilya Grigorik. It explains how to see timings (dns lookup etc) for every curl request.Thu 27 Sep 2018
UTC is enough for everyone... right? external
This is an article about programming time by Zach Holman.Mon 24 Sep 2018
Whenever I use sqlite in Node I always come across the issue where the database hasn't been created properly. This is the code I've been using to ensure it does.
const dbpath = 'database.db'
const dbPromise = Promise.resolve()
.then(() => new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
// Make sure database exists before trying to open it
fs.writeFile(dbpath, '', { flag: 'a+' }, function (err) {
if (err) reject(err)
else resolve()
})
}))
.then(() => sqlite.open(dbpath, { Promise }))
.then(db => db.migrate({ migrationsPath: 'migrations/' }))