Inspired by Rach Smith’s post on using userstyles to hide YouTube shorts I came up with some CSS to hide those annoying Sign in with Google pop-ups.
Wesley Moore
Hi I’m Wes 👋. I like warm weather and tinkering with computers; ranging from small microcontrollers, up to large servers and the operating systems that run upon them. I’m a Rustacean with a fondness for mechanical keyboards. I work at YesLogic on the Prince HTML to PDF converter. Read more on the about page →
Recent Posts
divmod, Rust, x86, and Optimisation
While reviewing some Rust code that did something like this:
let a = n / d;
let b = n % d;
I lamented the lack of a divmod
method in Rust (that would return both the
quotient and remainder). My colleague Brendan pointed out that he actually
added it back in 2013 but it was moved out of the standard
library before the 1.0 release.
Garage Door Monitor Update
The garage door monitor that I built earlier in the year has by all accounts been running perfectly since I installed it. Recently I implemented a couple of new features that I’ve wished for over the last few months.
Resuming Read Rust Tweeting
The Read Rust Twitter account crossed over 10K followers in the last few days. Amazingly 4350 of those coming after I stopped regular posting. This got me thinking about the account and how I might be able to use it to benefit the community while avoiding the overhead that led me to winding things down in Sep 2020.
Generating RSS Feeds From Web Pages With RSS Please
Sometimes I come across a web page that I’d like to revisit when there’s
new content. Typically, I do this by subscribing to the RSS feed in
Feedbin. Unfortunately some sites don’t provide an RSS feed, which is why I
built RSS Please (rsspls
). RSS Please allows you to generate an RSS
feed by extracting specific parts of a web page. In this post I give a bit of
background on the tool and how I’m running it in my Docker infrastructure.
Monitoring My Garage Door With a Raspberry Pi, Rust, and a 13Mb Linux System
I’ve accidentally left our garage door open a few times. To combat this I built a monitor that sends an alert via Mattermost when the door has been left open for more than 5 minutes. This turned out to be a super fun project. I used parts on hand as much as possible, implemented the monitoring application in Rust, and then built a stripped down Linux image to run it.
Fixing Monospace Text in Kobo eReaders
After verifying with friends that eBook readers do a decent job of rendering
technical content I purchased a Kobo Libra 2 this week. I loaded up some books
and started reading… but something was off. Sure enough, after verifying the
EPUB with Calibre on my computer I confirmed that the Kobo was not rendering
text with CSS rules like font-family: monospace
in a monospace font.
Alpine Linux and Docker Infrastructure Three Years Later
Three years ago I published, Rebuilding My Personal Infrastructure With Alpine Linux and Docker, in which I described how I was hosting various applications using an Alpine Linux host and Docker on a virtual machine at Vultr. I thought it would be good to write a follow-up on how this worked out.
ASCII-centric Usernames
I’m working on a web-based side project in my spare time. The great thing about side projects is you get to make all the choices and question the common wisdom. Recently I’ve been building out the sign-up flow and I started thinking about usernames—specifically the characters that they may be comprised of.
RustConf 2021
A few weeks ago I got up at 2:30am and attended virtual RustConf 2021. The pre-recorded talks were live-streamed and there was a dedicated Discord server for discussion and Q&A while the talks ran. It was overall well organised and a good experience. All the talks were interesting and well executed. The Discord chat was fun but I’m not sure it added a lot to the value of my experience.
Projects
A selection of projects I've built or contributed to:
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RSS Please
Generate RSS feeds from web pages.
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Allsorts
Font parser, shaping engine, and subsetter implemented in Rust.
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Dewpoint
View a 7-day dewpoint forecast for a selected location.
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Git Grab
Clone a git repository into a standard location organised by domain and path.
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Bit Cannon
A blog about operating system exploration.
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Linked List
A personal knowledge base.