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https://benswift.me/blog/2021/10/21/cutting-ruby-ci-pipeline-times-with-pre-installed-bundles · 21 Oct 2021
I (and, increasingly many of my colleagues) are using Jekyll to create open (CC-licenced), hackable, acessible course websites & teaching content for our…
https://benswift.me/blog/2021/10/18/openconnect-setup-for-institutional-vpn-access · 18 Oct 2021
My institution's IT policies have recently changed and port 22 is now blocked from off-campus. That's a real pain if you use ssh to push/pull from our on-prem…
https://benswift.me/blog/2021/04/08/benswift-me-analytics-tracking-update · 8 Apr 2021
I haven't had any sort of client-side analytics (e.g. Google Analytics) on for a long time (since around 2012 I think---several iterations of the site ago). I…
https://benswift.me/blog/2021/04/01/bulk-add-students-to-ms-teams-from-a-csv-file · 1 Apr 2021
My institution now uses MS Teams for lots of things, including organising classes & communicating with students. It's not perfect, but it's not terrible, and…
https://benswift.me/blog/2021/03/16/simple-pdf-papers-reports-with-markdown-pandoc-and-bibtex · 16 Mar 2021
I've long raged against the machine of my institution's default LaTeX template for dissertations and other reports, which is: - complicated (more than 20…
https://benswift.me/blog/2020/12/16/configuring-spacemacs-org-roam-org-noter-for-academic-writing-bliss · 16 Dec 2020
I've always had a decent memory, and so I've never really had a formal system for keeping track of who said what and in which paper. When it comes time to…
https://benswift.me/blog/2020/07/17/mbsync-v1-3-2-breaking-change · 17 Jul 2020
As part of my ongoing quest to Emacs-all-the-things, I'm a long-time satisfied user of the mu email client. I even wrote the latest CI infrastructure setup for…
https://benswift.me/blog/2020/07/15/acmc2020-organising-my-first-virtual-conference · 15 Jul 2020
import Picture from '../../../../src/components/Picture.astro' I've been a bit quiet on this blog for the last few weeks because I've been organising ACMC2020:…
https://benswift.me/blog/2019/11/17/benswift-me-dev-roadmap-for-2020 · 17 Nov 2019
As a developer of web tech curricula (specifically 2D graphics & interaction design in COMP1720) there's always a tension in trying to just teach the…
https://benswift.me/blog/2019/10/16/package-managers-update-or-upgrade · 16 Oct 2019
Quick quiz: for the following language/system package managers, what's the name of the subcommand to update your project/system to the latest version of one…