Adding a Bluesky icon to Blog

I am back on Bluesky after a break and decided to add a link to my profile on the front page. I noticed that there wasn’t an SVG image in the theme so I added it, here’s how: First locate the theme’s svg.html located here: themes/PaperMod/layouts/partials/svg.html Open the file in a text editor, make a copy first of course. Then add the following block of code into the file, you will see the format and just copy the ones that are in there. ...

6 October 2026 · Mark

Disable Rounded Tabs Firefox

To turn off the Firefox rounded Tabs: In the browser address bar type: about:config Then search for: nova Then change the boolean value of: browser.nova.enabled to false If you can’t find the setting you can add it.

5 October 2026 · Mark

Reducing my blog

After many years of posting and maintaining a small but active little website blog on this domain, I decided in the night I’d had enough and didn’t see the point of having all my old data online and available to scrappers and other online thievery. So today I removed all my old posts bar one and deleted the Books and Notes sections completely not sure why I did it in the first place other than it seemed like a good idea at the time. ...

25 September 2026 · Mark

Redoing some old prints

I did a few prints of some of my models a couple of years ago, unfortunately I rendered them too dark for hanging on the wall. While they looked okay on the screen they weren’t so good in a normally lit room, and the back ground was far to dark for the subject to stand out. So I have done a little reworking and relighting to lift them from the page as it were. ...

2 September 2026 · Mark

MacBook Wi-Fi MAC Address

After setting up my new network I found I couldn’t connect to my MacBook using its hostname, which is a pain for local web work in HUGO. I found that the problem lay in Apple’s security assigning fake MAC addresses to machines to limit tracking in Public Wi-Fi Hotspots. While this maybe useful in someone cafe or other public areas it is a real pain on home, school and work networks, because the router doesn’t know where your machine is. So you can’t access the machine via its name. ...

18 August 2026 · Mark

Clean up File Space

Use the following steps to clean Windows crap Open the run dialog with Win + R Prefetch Folder Type in Run box: prefetch Select all the files and delete, Windows won’t allow you to delete protected currently used files so skip those. User Temp Folder In the Run type box: %temp% Same procedure as above. System Temp Folder In the Run type box: %windir%\temp And once more. DNS Cache Flush Open CMD as Administrator Ctrl Click +, then type: ...

25 May 2026 · Mark

HUGO Limited RSS

After trying various tips and tricks, I found a solution. There were a lot of older posts claiming you could turn off the RSS in sections frontmater and on in some other. This I found out to be a fallacy, all I managed was to turn it off totally or on totally. The solution does not lay in the frontmater, at least not for me, it lies in the rss.xml file in the themes directory. ...

10 May 2026 · Mark

Type Fractions Mac

On Mac there is a shortcut to enter fractional elements in text, for example a 1⁄2 is: 1 ALT SHIFT 2 So Numerator then alt shift then Denominator.

30 April 2026 · Mark

Quick Access To WSL

To open the Windows Subsystem Linux from the File Explorer enter the following in the address bar: \\wsl$ to open a specific Distro add it to the path, for example: \\wsl$\Debian

8 April 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