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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>nevstokes.com</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/</link><description>Recent content on nevstokes.com</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en-gb</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2021 19:10:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://nevstokes.com/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Shortcuts</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2021/07/shortcuts/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2021 19:10:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2021/07/shortcuts/</guid><description>I stopped using a computer mouse years ago and only really use the trackpad for navigating websites or OS gestures. When coding, I prefer to keep my fingers on the keys as much as possible.</description></item><item><title>Downtime</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2021/07/downtime/</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2021 19:10:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2021/07/downtime/</guid><description>This is something that I&rsquo;m still not great at but I took some long overdue and much needed time off from work.</description></item><item><title>Free Cookies</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2021/06/cookie-free/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2021 21:10:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2021/06/cookie-free/</guid><description>To be more accurate &ndash; and indeed, specific &ndash; this blog is now proudly 100% free of cookies.</description></item><item><title>So I tied an onion to my belt . . .</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2021/04/developing-nostalgia/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2021 21:10:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2021/04/developing-nostalgia/</guid><description>I&rsquo;ve been hankering for a bit of nostalgia lately and got to ruminating on how easy web developers have it these days.</description></item><item><title>Spring</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2021/03/spring/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2021 21:10:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2021/03/spring/</guid><description>The signs of the changing of the seasons are all around.</description></item><item><title>VS Code</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2021/02/vscode/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2021 21:10:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2021/02/vscode/</guid><description>This is the first in a series of posts that detail how I&rsquo;ve set up my IDE</description></item><item><title>Festive 500</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/12/festive-500/</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2020 21:10:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/12/festive-500/</guid><description>2020 has been something of a challenge in so many ways. There&rsquo;s been just enough time for a final personal test.</description></item><item><title>Taxing Affairs</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/09/taxing-affairs/</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2020 20:10:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/09/taxing-affairs/</guid><description>Amazon and Jeff Bezos are currently drawing ire over the amount of tax they pay and the wealth they have amassed respectively.</description></item><item><title>Make It So</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/09/make-it-so/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2020 22:13:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/09/make-it-so/</guid><description>I&rsquo;m a big fan of automating repetitive work with a <code>Makefile</code>, especially when multiple steps or dependency chains are involved.</description></item><item><title>Asking Too Much</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/09/asking-too-much/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2020 21:10:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/09/asking-too-much/</guid><description>One of the key tenets of information and computer security is the Princicple of Least Privilege; an appliction should only request &ndash; and be granted &ndash; the minimum permissions required for the role it is trying to fulfil.</description></item><item><title>Maintenance</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/09/maintenance/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2020 14:10:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/09/maintenance/</guid><description>The software project lifecycle doesn&rsquo;t usually end with delivery. If it&rsquo;s not looked after properly, a project can often still cause you pain way beyond this stage.</description></item><item><title>Recorded History</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/09/git/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2020 14:10:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/09/git/</guid><description>I was first introduced to version control systems twenty years ago, first with CVS and then SVN. These days, like most others, I&rsquo;m using Git. Over the years, various models and strategies have emerged for VCS best practice.</description></item><item><title>Missing August</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/08/missing-august/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:58:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/08/missing-august/</guid><description>In ordinary times, Edinburgh usually welcomes the world to the International Festival this month. This year was clearly always going to be different.</description></item><item><title>Working From Home isn't Working for Me</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/08/wfh/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2020 09:47:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/08/wfh/</guid><description>From skimming LinkedIn posts over the past few months, it&rsquo;s been obvious that plenty of people are loving working from home. I am, however, not one of them.</description></item><item><title>The Herring Road</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/07/herring-road/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2020 20:13:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/07/herring-road/</guid><description>I got myself out of the city yesterday evening for a solo adventure, exploring part of a historical route across the Lammermuir Hills.</description></item><item><title>A Right Set Up</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/07/a-right-set-up/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2020 11:24:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/07/a-right-set-up/</guid><description>There&rsquo;s a popular IT anology of treating servers as cattle rather than pets. Logically, does it then follow that my laptop is a cow?</description></item><item><title>Out With the Old</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/06/out-with-the-old/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2020 17:07:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/06/out-with-the-old/</guid><description>They say that you should never reinvent the wheel. But what if you could make the wheels better?</description></item><item><title>Confessions of a Bashist</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/06/confessions-of-a-bashist/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2020 18:08:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/06/confessions-of-a-bashist/</guid><description>I prefer some things to be done a certain way but my reasons are seldom irrational &ndash; usually there&rsquo;s at least some logic involved somewhere.</description></item><item><title>Shellology</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/06/shellology/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2020 10:37:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/06/shellology/</guid><description>As a follow up to my previous Unix archaeology, I traced the evolution of shell development across the decades.</description></item><item><title>My Descent into Shell</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/06/my-descent-into-shell/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2020 19:41:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/06/my-descent-into-shell/</guid><description>For my first lightning talk, I dived into the history of Unix to find the starting point from which modern shells emerged.</description></item><item><title>Struck by Lightning</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/05/struck-by-lightning/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2020 09:41:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/05/struck-by-lightning/</guid><description>Researching and presenting to my colleagues &ndash; or learning new things from them &ndash; is proving to be a great distraction.</description></item><item><title>Documentation</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/05/documentation/</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2020 20:13:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/05/documentation/</guid><description>It is a fact that individual contributors to a codebase will come and go. Establishing good documentation practices is essential to enable an effective organisational memory.</description></item><item><title>Super Styling</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/04/super-styling/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2020 09:41:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/04/super-styling/</guid><description>I&rsquo;m gradually getting to grips with Hugo, learning about how the build process, shortcodes and templates all work.</description></item><item><title>Home Economics</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/05/home-economics/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2020 09:41:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/05/home-economics/</guid><description>Long winters growing up in the Pennines seems to have set me in good stead for the current situation and empty shelves in the shops.</description></item><item><title>You Can't Always Get What You Want</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/04/you-cant-always-get-what-you-want/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2020 09:41:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/04/you-cant-always-get-what-you-want/</guid><description>I had some pretty specific requirements regarding a theme for my blog but I couldn&rsquo;t find anything that ticked all my boxes.</description></item><item><title>Starting Afresh</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/04/starting-afresh/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2020 20:13:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2020/04/starting-afresh/</guid><description>I&rsquo;ve resurrected my blog, having said goodbye to WordPress, and embraced a static generation approach with Hugo.</description></item><item><title>About Me</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/page/about-me/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/page/about-me/</guid><description>Not only a fantastic Jackie Chan movie, but a perfectly valid question, given the circumstances. You&rsquo;re reading this so I&rsquo;m assuming you have at least a passing curiosity as to my background.
There&rsquo;s likely much more to be gleaned from following the social links way down there in the footer but, by way of brevity (not my strong point), here&rsquo;s the précis:
Although I was born and raised in Halifax, West Yorkshire, I&rsquo;ve lived in Edinburgh, Scotland for pretty much all of my adult life.</description></item><item><title>Accessibility Statement</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/page/accessibility/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/page/accessibility/</guid><description>From working in design agencies where accessibility was just good practice, to local government where it was mandatory, I&rsquo;ve always felt that inclusive design was the right thing to do. I also feel that it&rsquo;s important that this page is given an equal navigational standing and isn&rsquo;t burried somewhere in among the footnotes.
It is my aim that the website is usable regardless of browser, device, connection speed, or physical ability.</description></item><item><title>Colophon</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/page/colophon/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/page/colophon/</guid><description>The site is published by the Hugo static site generator, hosted on GitHub Pages. The domain, security certificate and content delivery network are provided by Cloudflare. Availability is monitored by UptimeRobot.
Social icons were selected from the Simple Brand library and the theme icons chosen from Feather, used under the CC0 1.0 Universal License and MIT respectively. SVGs for both were generated by IcoMoon.
Fonts used are Quicksand for general content in conjunction with Source Code Pro for monospaced text, both used under the Open Font License.</description></item><item><title>Depository</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/page/depository/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/page/depository/</guid><description>Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind The Phoenix Project DevOps Handbook To see what I have on my stack, visit my reading list.</description></item><item><title>Festive 500</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2021/01/sun/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/blog/2021/01/sun/</guid><description> Little darling, it&#39;s been a long cold lonely winter &mdash; Here Comes The Sun, The Beatles</description></item><item><title>Tsundoku</title><link>https://nevstokes.com/page/tsundoku/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://nevstokes.com/page/tsundoku/</guid><description>I seem to go through sproradic periods of indulgement - whether that be listening to music, blogging, exercising or reading. I&rsquo;m still trying to even things out.
The Social Animal Feed Zone Portables To see what I have read recently, visit the depository.</description></item></channel></rss>