Week notes: 2021-05-03

Week notes for week ending 2nd May, 2021 This is an experiment to try capturing interesting things I’ve come across in the past week (or so). Who knows how long...

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And ... we're back!

Well, it has been a while since I was last here. Actually here used to be on Blogspot, but I’ve just moved everything lock, stock and barrel (well, ok, except...

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A solution to EACCES when launching Puppeteer

Puppeteer is a very handy way to drive Chrome headless from Node scripts. On a recent project, I had it working fine in dev but it died on deployment to...

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Firefox4 on 64 bit Ubuntu

Now that Firefox 4 final is out, I wanted to switch to using it rather than version 3.x on my Ubuntu 10.10 systems. You can download a Linux version of...

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Quick tip: SHA1 or MD5 checksum strings in Java

In a recent project (OK, I was processing FOAF data), I needed to be able to generate the hex-encoded string of a SHA1 checksum. The built-in Java security classes can...

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