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🐙 Staff Software Engineer at Kraken Technologies 🎸 Co-founder of Glued to Music
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Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
September 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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TIL How to use reserved domains in tests to prevent DNS queries

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How to use reserved domains in tests to prevent DNS queries
When writing tests I use the example.com domain for any URLs, email addresses, and similar. The reason: if my test unintentionally made a real request, or sent a real email, then it would resolve to a...
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July 1, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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TIL How to optimise the order of HTML head elements using Capo

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How to optimise the order of HTML head elements using Capo
I recently came across Capo, a tool that helps identify HTML head elements that are out of order. Using the Chrome extension, it offered a few suggestions for my project. Move the es-module-shims asyn...
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June 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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TIL How to write a custom alias for the Python debugger

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How to write a custom alias for the Python debugger
Recently shared at work was this TIL from Samuel, Custom alias for pretty printing in Python debugger with .pdbrc (including Django models!). Here’s my ever so slightly adapted version which also incl...
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June 19, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Kinda crazy to think I've been working at Kraken (part of the Octopus Energy Group) for nine year now 🐙🎂 What a wonderful company to be a part of.

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March 3, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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TIL How to catch missing referenced files in Django static files manifest

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How to catch missing referenced files in Django static files manifest
I recently had a deployment fail with the following WhiteNoise error. -----> $ python src/manage.py collectstatic --noinput Post-processing 'polls/style.css' failed! whitenoise.storage.MissingFileErro...
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February 28, 2025 at 4:03 AM