Thomas' Blog (Page 3)

Cleaning up my bookmarks

I decided to take the time to clean up my bookmarks on the basis that my bookmark list had become unreasonably large, and I no longer really knew what was on it. I'm unsure what the logic was when I bookmarked a lot of this stuff. The thought process always

May 06, 2021

2 min read

Purchasing items from Japan using DeJapan and ZenMarket

A few months ago I was interested in purchasing a number of items from Japan. The items in question (trading cards) are small, light, and generally very cheap (although some trading cards sell for massive amounts). The items that I was looking to buy generally ranged from about 100 Yen

Mar 18, 2021

13 min read

Random stuff I found on my HD

* Tutorials for building flash games * Zip files split into hundreds of parts that are then combined * Random photos * A database of British postcodes and their lat/lng (from 2010) I also found lots of images and screenshots that reminded me of some great memories. A five year time capsule of

Jan 14, 2021

3 min read

The Beacon Chain, and ETH2 Security/Upgrade paths

This is a followup to my post, Setting up a NUC for ETH Staking - Ubuntu, Nethermind, Lighthouse, Prometheus, Grafana. This is essentially a mish mash of interesting knowledge that I have gained since setting up my rig. It includes: * Information about the specification for the beacon chain * Information about

Dec 17, 2020

15 min read

Setting up a NUC for ETH Staking - Ubuntu, Nethermind, Lighthouse, Prometheus, Grafana

I am super intrigued by Proof of Stake and what it means for the future of Ethereum. I have missed the Genesis launch of ETH2 but I figured I'd have a play on the Goerli testnet just out of intrigue. The reason I have avoided ETH2 thus far is because:

Dec 04, 2020

14 min read

Stylesheet setup - SCSS

I was looking at my todo list and one of the outstanding items under the heading Longer Term was "Make custom css .scss". I have absolutely no idea what that means. I almost certainly wrote it months ago, and at the time it probably made loads of sense. Given this,

Oct 30, 2020

5 min read

Time zones in software

This is another one of those posts whereby I want to document my thoughts/approach to a subject (in relation to a company product) and figured that I may as well do so in the public domain. For a great overview of time zones check out the Stack Overflow tag

Sep 22, 2020

10 min read

Custom App Authentication on Android

Problem The Training Plan Android app is set up such that the majority of the app is controlled from a single Activity (MainActivity) that displays different content fragments dependent on the screen that a user needs to see. A few other activities are used for example the IndividualRunActivity which displays

Sep 09, 2020

3 min read

A better, updated way of syncing Instagram posts to a Ghost blog

I came up with a better way of synchronising my Instagram posts on my Ghost blog (this) using a fairly simple node script and some third party libraries. This post explains how.

Aug 10, 2020

3 min read