Written by Remy Sharp
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on Jul. 14, 2021
To test if I'm suitable for the treatment I talked about in entry 1, and the only in-person appointment I'd need, I would have to have a hearing test. I've only ever had a hearing test when I was a kid and I do remember even then they mentioned there was some slight loss. Hearing is important to th…
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on Jul. 13, 2021
This is a shorties as blog posts go, but a goodie, and certainly one for future Rem to read. My default machine for development has a trackpad for input. Both in the laptop state and when I have it connected to an external monitor. Up until recently, I had no idea that other users were seeing a ver…
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on Jul. 9, 2021
Specific blog post title, eh? But very specific problem that's a pain in the backside when it comes to debugging it. How do you inspect an element that hides on mouse move? Such as a tooltip (though I'm not a fan of the UI element, if only for the lack of accessibility) it's certainly not obvious.…
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on Jul. 5, 2021
Ready for release. After nearly ten months of tinkering in the evening, the Marbles Squared ZX Spectrum Next port is going live this weekend. It's not that it actually took 10 months to develop, it's just along the way I learnt and wrote the code grid handling in assembly, and then I wrote an assem…
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on Jul. 2, 2021
Sometimes I need to pull a complete copy of a previous file out of a github (this is useful when needing to do visual binary diffs to see which bytes have moves or changed). To pull a specific file, say the last commit, the following command line does the trick: git show HEAD^:./myfile.bin > myf…
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on Jul. 1, 2021
I've set my foot on the first part of a journey that I'm not sure where it'll lead, but I do know that it's going to be emotional so this is the place I'll be putting those experiences. A little background Around 20 years ago my tinnitus came. Tinnitus, apparently affects 1 in 10 people. I'm one of…