Processed Honours Final Presentation Video
I’ve cleaned up and merged the videos of my final research presentation that I recently uncovered The cleaned up version has been put on my ZFS Research Page.
Alternatively you can watch it on YouTube:
Posts about site-updates
Finally a Favicon
When checking my sites network usage earlier, I was reminded that browsers will try to
load a file called favicon.ico from any site and mine didn’t have one. I
was initially inspired by the two-triangle fast-forward symbol to make a site
logo with my initials, in the form of a basic SVG.
Videos of my Final Research Presentation
While looking through some old USBs I’ve discovered a recording of the final presentation of my Honours Research in late 2014. I had believed this was completely lost, like the video of my BSDCan presentation which was not successfully recorded due to technical issues.
The video files have been put on my ZFS research page. The orignals are shot in profile on a 2013 era smartphone and the volume is very low - I might to try and clean them up a bit, but very glad to have the files regardless.
Small Site Retheme, and some File Size info
Inspired by some Solarpunk Lemmy discussion especially Smolweb.org I had a look at the overhead of my Nikola site theme and was suprised by how heavy the JS and CSS was even though it was barely doing anything.
Thus, I’ve switched to the lighter base theme for both my personal site and Research Site. These still contain (post-compression) 9.5 KB of CSS and 4.1 KB of JS, which still seems quite excessive but it’s a big improvement for minimal effort on my part.
didyouknowthatyoucanhaveonlysixty-threecharactersinadomainlabel.net is moving to didyouknowthatyoucanhaveonlysixty-threecharactersinadomainlabel.dylanleigh.net
To save US$20 per year on a domain name for a 20 year old joke, I’m moving the three sentence index page at http://didyouknowthatyoucanhaveonlysixty-threecharactersinadomainlabel.net/ to a subdomain of this site, http://didyouknowthatyoucanhaveonlysixty-threecharactersinadomainlabel.dylanleigh.net/ . There’s a redirect in place at the old site for now, but I’ll probably let the domain expire when it is due for renewal.
Articles from drwxr-xr-x.org transferred to dleigh.net
All of the articles from my 2019-2021 blog Readable by all (drwxr-xr-x.org) have been moved to this site, with one exception - the very first “About” post which was about how the new blog format should help me post more frequently, which obviously didn’t happen.
Returning Home(page)
So, no updates for over two years.
I’ve been very unwell to the point I need assistance to do even basic household tasks like cleaning and preparing meals. Unfortunately I’ve already used the title “Rumours of my death have been slightly exaggerated” back in 2018, and it wasn’t even the last post I had to make on this topic.
While most of my life is a complete mess, I do have a few ideas about being able to actually get some more stuff I’ve done posted online.
Disability and Rarity of Updates
Haven’t made any updates to this site or my “new” blog in over a year until I cleaned up and posted this biology article a few days ago. Even before then, I hadn’t made a post talking about my disabilities and past and how badly it affects my ability to get things done.
This post (originally on the new blog) will explain some of those issues, what I’ve been up to since last year, and what I might be able to do in the future.
Cooking Reference Tables and New Blog
At the start of the year I started assembling some cooking reference tables - reference lists of cooking times, types of fillings, sauces, doughs, herbs and spices used in different cuisines, etc. I never got around to finishing the doughs and sauces, and I was going to wait until they were all done before “announcing” it. But it looks like it’s not going to get done anytime soon, so this post is the belated and incomplete announcement.
Due to my tardiness in making updates here, I’m considering creating a new blog-type site where I can have a fresh start and post little snippets every now and then.
Introducing the Price And Nutrition Tracking System
In early 2017 I had just gone onto disability pension. Desperate to improve my health despite being broke, I was looking for a way to get the maximum fibre and protein from my food for the minimal cost and calories. I started entering in all the nutritional data from food I bought into a spreadsheet, calculating and plotting those protein:fibre:cost:calories ratios.
Later that year I started to create and analyse recipes which combined different ingredients. This quickly became cumbersome in a spreadsheet, so I started a Django project initially called the Price And Nutrition Tabulation System (P.A.N.T.S) for storing and visualising the data for both recipes and ingredients.
Soon I also realised since I was entering in all my recipes here it would also be easier if I used it as my daily calorie counter and added a “food diary” to the system, renaming it the Price And Nutrition Tracking System.
Example screenshot of the diary view:
