A Unifi Access Point in all its glory!This morning I woke up to alerts from the unifi cloudkey telling me one of my wifi access points was disconnected. This was odd as this Access Point (AP) had been up and running fine ever since it had been configured. I…
A guide to fixing issues with the admin interface for a Unifi Cloudkey not being available on port 8443.…
I'd always admired Apple's original iSight camera and whilst I didn't own one in their heyday, I remember thinking back then how nice they looked compared to other webcams built around the same time. It looks purposeful and professional. The iSight compared to a quickcam which was readily available at…
Recently in building out a dashboard to show the number of github issues for a given search, I wanted to show a circle containing a count. When we think about responsiveness in web pages we mostly think about making things that respond to a horizonal constraint. However, for a dashboard,…
A quick tip. If you're running karma tests via Firefox on Travis CI by default the Firefox version used is quite old (31 at time of writing). To always use the latest (current) version you can add this snippet to your .travis.yml. addons: firefox: latest This will keep your…
This will probably be of use to about 3 people, and I'm one of them. If you feel your eyes glazing over, don't fret and look at this kitten picture instead: The problem I wanted to add some content to both our docs (built via sphinx docs and written in…
Note: this post remains for posterity but rather than using the template tags described here I'd suggest taking a look at common-tags. In some recent code at work we're using fairly large strings for error descriptions. JavaScript has always made it hard to deal with long strings, especially when you…
I recently noticed that under OSX Inkscape behaves strangely with multiple monitors. I thought I'd broken the installation as when launching Inkscape it opened and then the window immediately disappears. Fortunately there's a bug that's been filed here: XQuartz on OS X 10.9 and later: limited support for multi-monitor…
Recently working on some code I was doing some basic tests that checked for an exception being raised. The tests looked like this: def test_user_identification_is_valid_option(self): with self.assertRaises(ValueError): example_seller(products=[ 'id': 'hai', 'description': 'a description', 'recurrence': None, 'user_identification': True, }]) def test_…
I've just recently finished shaving about a billion yaks * to convert a React app over to use ES6 modules and classes so we can start living in the future that is ES6 with a sprinkling of ES7. * Might not be true Transpiling back to the present We're using babel via…