Created A Post Symbolic Link

This will allow me to keep the desktop post shorcut while editing and renaming the python applications. A special case will be needed on windows but the mac and linux versions should work the same…

5 March 2026 · Mark

Check For Directory

Create a directory if it doesn’t exist: import os.path isdir = os.path.isdir(postpath) if not isdir: os.mkdir(postpath)

4 March 2026 · Mark

How To Pause Unix Shell Script

You can pause the execution of a shell script using read like this: read -t 5 -p "press any key to resume, will exit in 5 sec ..." The -t is the time in seconds and the -p is the pause followed by a message.

28 February 2026 · Mark

Changed Page Style Of Notes

I didn’t like the list style of the original notes page so removed the list.html from the theme/layouts/notes directory. This is now the default theme list as used in tags etc.

25 February 2026 · Mark