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Parsing pdf files is trickier than I thought

12 minute read

I had a shower thought the other day - “I’m an ebook hoarder, I have a bunch of technical ebooks as mobi/epub files, but also pdfs. It’d be nice to be able ...

Analysing Stonemouth with an LLM

6 minute read

There’s a lot of positive and negative discussion happening about AIs at the moment. I have thoughts - lots of them - and I want to blog more, mostly about c...

Revisiting Mermaid.js for simple diagrams

10 minute read

Why Mermaid? I’ve always loved diagrams as code - you can easily express graphical information in a text file, with easy searching, renaming, git tooling, a...

Mac toolbar widgets with xbar and rust

3 minute read

(aside - I have some much bigger blog ideas but haven’t had the time to write them properly - so here’s just a small thing I find handy) Lately I wanted som...