Virtual Bookshelf on Mark B Tomlinson

Social Media Posting II

Wed, 13 May 2026 12:28:55 +0200

In regard to my recent Note on posting.

HUGO Limited RSS

Sun, 10 May 2026 16:36:26 +0200

Using PaperMod Theme

My First Computer

Tue, 05 May 2026 19:11:05 +0200

44 years ago I got my first computer

Blogging - Bubbles - Comments

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:39:37 +0200

Blogging, Bubbles & Comments

My Virtual Bookshelf

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:03:45 +0200

Some books I have read over time

March Of Time

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:34:05 +0200

Another month and nothing posted until now

Dark Days

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:23:43 +0200

Keeping my mind busy to keep my mood up

End Of An Era

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:26:24 +0200

After many years on Artstation

EOY!

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 22:20:10 +0200

End Of Year

Month Of Dials

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 10:26:43 +0200

Spend a lot of time this month on old dials

Lack Of Interest

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:13:15 +0200

Sometimes I just really can't be bothered

Virtual Fruit

Sun, 18 May 2025 19:07:59 +0200

Spent some time on some old models

Moving Instances

Sun, 04 May 2025 19:12:39 +0200

After two years on fosstodon.org I have moved

Hugo Update Problem

Fri, 02 May 2025 12:11:50 +0200

A missing template definitions breaks production builds in hugo v0.146.0

May Day

Thu, 01 May 2025 22:31:26 +0200

Another day another month

Summer Time Bug Fix

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 19:37:18 +0200

This is how I fixed the DST date problem

Summer Time Bug

Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:29:17 +0200

My fancy little hugo post app and summer time

I Have An Icon

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:26:22 +0100

Creating a Desktop Icon for my Shell Script

Stage Lighting

Sat, 08 Mar 2025 11:52:11 +0100

Experimenting with some scene lighting for product visualisation

Zoom Image on Click in HUGO

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 10:36:57 +0100

Image zooming script for HUGO and PaperMod.

Just A Pot

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:39:12 +0200

Posting for the sake of potting

Small Computer Parts

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 15:23:50 +0200

Modelling small computer parts

First Post of the Year

Sun, 05 Jan 2025 19:39:00 +0200

A new year and a new post for the new year.

Xmas Gnome 2024

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 16:10:52 +0200

A new look for my Christmas Gnome model

Nearly missed November

Sat, 30 Nov 2024 15:59:02 +0100

Better late than never.

Blender Volume Shader

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 21:43:27 +0200

How to set up Volume shading on renders

Blender Bevel Miter Outer

Sat, 31 Aug 2024 12:05:58 +0200

Blender Bevel Types

August a Hairy Month

Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:16:34 +0200

I decided to try Blender's hair system

Fix Windows Desktop Icon Spacing

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 10:23:40 +0200

How to reset Windows Desktop icons

Editing Linux Grub Boot Loader

Sun, 21 Jul 2024 16:36:44 +0200

How to edit the Grub boot screen in Linux

Virtual writing implements

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 15:03:10 +0200

Making some writing implements in Blender

Boolean Toggle Node Group

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:28:27 +0200

A very simple node group to create a switch

Art Posts from Mastodon

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:48:43 +0200

Collection of old Mastodon posts.

Blender Cut a Rounded Rectangle Demo

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:46:24 +0200

This will show how to cut a rounded rectangle capsule lozenge shape using Blender tools

April a Month Of Moves

Wed, 08 May 2024 09:48:30 +0200

A month of packing and unpacking

Moving Once Again

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:36:03 +0100

After a few years on the river it is time to return to civilisation.

February a Bust

Sun, 25 Feb 2024 19:52:09 +0100

Not the most productive month

Busy with Code

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:55:37 +0100

Starting the year finishing some coding

Winter Time is Here Again

Fri, 15 Dec 2023 15:10:02 +0100

And the year is coming to an end

Roll of the dice

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 15:23:19 +0100

After some thought and a lot of inaction, it is time to consolidate domains

Blender Gamma Node

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 05:16:18 +0100

One way I use the Gamma node in Blender

Skipped September

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 10:29:22 +0200

Missing the mark by a month

Feeling Sheepish

Sat, 26 Aug 2023 19:27:03 +0200

It has been and odd month

Blender Edge Wear Node

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 10:35:37 +0200

How to set up a Edge Wear node in Blender

Blending Machine Parts

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 17:37:03 +0200

A little example of using Anisotropic maps on a model

Cut and paste in Finder

Sun, 18 Jun 2023 10:39:50 +0200

How to cut and paste in files and folders in Finder

Summer Rumblings

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 19:39:08 +0200

It is has been a while since I posted

Asset Surface Snapping Blender

Mon, 08 May 2023 11:21:39 +0200

Blender settings for surface snapping to underlying geometry

Moi3d Shortcuts

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 12:00:18 +0200

Shortcuts sorted alphabetically

Blender Curve Manipulation Problem

Tue, 11 Apr 2023 13:35:48 +0200

Unable to move curve in 3D

Sub-division Models

Sat, 08 Apr 2023 19:19:20 +0200

Sub-division modelling still worth learning

Purge git repo history

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 10:10:07 +0200

Reseting a git repo's history.

Just post something, anything

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 18:09:58 +0100

Spurred on by another blog post

Hugo Google-News Error

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 08:55:39 +0100

The latest Hugo update broke my theme with google-news partial

Bees Wax Candle

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 19:40:04 +0100

A little arts and crafts sojourn.

Git Hooks to Rsync

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 18:36:08 +0100

Replacing Git with Rsync for uploading

Last Day of February

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 10:20:23 +0100

A month goes by without me posting

Open - command Mac terminal

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 15:09:53 +0100

Use the open command in Mac effectively

Who will read this

Mon, 30 Jan 2023 15:15:29 +0100

An interesting post turned up in my RSS feed.

Cloud Storage Reduction

Fri, 20 Jan 2023 16:24:12 +0100

Cloud storage addiction, time for a change.

Linux Mint Login Loop

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 19:55:18 +0100

iMac 2012 Recovery

Wed, 04 Jan 2023 14:15:30 +0100

New year and a new project on and old machine.

Bring Back Blogging

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 09:08:26 +0100

Twitter is creaking. Social media seems less fun than ever

End of the year and...

Sat, 31 Dec 2022 14:58:32 +0100

2022 has been a year and a half now it ends

Minting an iMac

Sat, 10 Dec 2022 19:33:16 +0100

Turning an old iMac into a Linux machine

Affinity - What Next

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 22:58:09 +0000

At the beginning of this month, November, Affinity Serif announced the imminent release of version 2 of its graphic software suit. I, like many, was excited by prospect and the hype that hinted at possibility of finally seeing some long awaited features.

Unfortunately, for me at least, the release didn’t live up to the hype and frankly didn’t have features I had expected. Promised features going back years, but I am not here to talk about that, though.

Blender Class Naming Convention

Wed, 19 Oct 2022 13:04:58 +0200

Naming convention for the BLender Python Class API

Backface Culling in Blender

Mon, 03 Oct 2022 11:44:29 +0200

How to set up backface culling

Typora Symbolic Links Mac

Sat, 01 Oct 2022 13:25:43 +0200

How to use unsupported symbolic links in Typora (MacOS)

Long Time No Post

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 13:42:34 +0000

A little update to keep my posts going

Multiple Symbolic Links Windows

Tue, 02 Nov 2021 16:23:52 +0000

Create a batch file, for example: symlink.bat with the following content and edit the source and target locations to suit.

@echo off
set "source=c:\source\directory"
set "target=c:\target\directory"
set "exclude=%temp%\exclude.txt"

(
    rem exclude files/dires with these strings into full path
    echo .txt
    echo pipe.cmd

    rem escaped backslash and initial and final quotes to avoid partial matches
    echo "c:\\source\\directory\\something.txt"

    rem exclude thisNot file/directory from source directory
    echo "%source:\=\\%\\thisNot"

)> "%exclude%"

forfiles /P "%source%" /C "cmd /c (echo @path|findstr /i /v /g:"%exclude%" >nul) && if @isdir==TRUE (mklink /d \"%target%\\\"@file @path) else (mklink \"%target%\\\"@file @path)"

del "%exclude%" > nul

Original answer posted on: stackoverflow

FrontMatter for VSC

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 19:07:36 +0000

Front matter addon for Visual Studio Code

Git Version Control Setup

Mon, 25 Oct 2021 13:37:56 +0000

Added Git to my workflow for pushing to Web-Server

Change Mac Machine Name via Terminal

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 17:36:57 +0000

I needed to change the name of one of my Macs remotely and this is the command to do it:

sudo scutil --set HostName [NewHostNameHere]

SSH copy keys from Windows

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 16:42:24 +0000

ssh-copy-id equivalent in Windows Shell

Empty Pie Menu Blender

Sat, 12 Jun 2021 14:20:08 +0000

This is the basic structure of a Pie Menu in Blender using Python

import bpy
from bpy.types import Menu, Operator

bl_info = {
    "name": "",
    "author": "",
    "version": (0, 0, 0, 1),
    "description": "",
    "blender": (2, 80, 0),
    "category": "3D view"
}

class VIEW3D_MT_PIE_template(Menu):
       # label is displayed at the center of the pie menu.
       bl_label = "Operations"
       bl_idname="mesh.mypie"

    def draw(self, context):

        layout = self.layout

        pie = layout.menu_pie()
        pie.operator("auto.smooth")


def register():
       bpy.utils.register_class(VIEW3D_MT_PIE_template)
       bpy.utils.register_class(AutoSmooth)


def unregister():
       bpy.utils.unregister_class(VIEW3D_MT_PIE_template)
       bpy.utils.unregister_class(AutoSmooth)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    register()

    bpy.ops.wm.call_menu_pie(name="VIEW3D_MT_PIE_template")


class AutoSmooth(Operator):
       bl_idname = "auto.smooth"
       bl_label = "AutoSmooth"

    def execute(self, context):
           bpy.ops.object.shade_smooth()
           bpy.context.object.data.use_auto_smooth = True

        return {'FINISHED'}

SMB Mac 11.3.1

Sat, 08 May 2021 12:39:03 +0200

SAMBA Mac NAS access problem fix

Busy with kits

Sat, 20 Feb 2021 11:46:56 +0100

Busy making some decal kits for Blender