I cannot be absolutely certain, but it is just possible that I have never before published a blog post on 23^rd October. At least, today is the first day since I started regularly bringing in old posts that I have found nothing to do. Of course, I may have brought one in before, but I cannot search...

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Overland is a lovely iPhone app made by aaronpk that tracks your location (strictly, your phone's location). A little while ago, I noticed that it was skipping a lot of locations. I wondered about this, reset one or two things, and was pleased to see it start working again as I expected.

The onl...

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At last, I am once again extracting summary details and artwork for the podcast episodes I have listened to, and I am doing it with Python rather than PHP.

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Around this time of the year, I like to reminisce about how my friend Luigi and I started agro.biodiver.se 15 years ago now. I initially went to the boss at the place where I worked, which had a similar, though narrower, focus, and tried to interest him in the idea. The pitch was simple; put stuff...

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Struggling still to understand geographical information and learn how to do things with it, I had high hopes for this tutorial, even though it dates from 2017. Reading through it a couple of times, before trying to do anything, it seemed to contain the sort of information I wanted to be able to use. So I carved out a few hours and started to work through it. There were plenty of errors to begin with of a sort I have become familiar with, that various bits and pieces could not be found. One proved absolutely insoluble, and I reasoned that perhaps I was using too modern a version of Python. So I went back to square one and installed Python 3.6.

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