Can't connect to Unifi Cloud Key on port 8443
A guide to fixing issues with the admin interface for a Unifi Cloudkey not being available on port 8443.…
Building a PiSight
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…
Vertically and horizontally responsive circle with text
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,…
Using the latest version of Firefox in Travis CI
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…
Including parts of README.rst in your sphinx docs
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…
Removing leading whitespace in ES6 template strings
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…
OSX: Inkscape not working with multiple monitors
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…
Python: testing beyond exceptions
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_…
Back to the future: ES6 + React
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…
Running tests on Sauce Labs via Travis
For the Payments Team's front-end projects we've just landed support for running the front-end unit tests using Sauce Labs. About Sauce Labs In case you've never heard of Sauce Labs (unlikely!) they provide access to a multitude of browser/platform combinations via vms so you can run your automated test…