Peter Hicks

@poggs
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Director of OpenTrainTimes, vaccinator, phlebotomist, vegan, considerate cyclist, Open Data advocate, Dad-joke teller, cat and Italian Greyhound lap provider
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Bloghttps://blog.poggs.com/
Websitehttps://www.opentraintimes.com/
Aside from documentation, something I regularly fail to remember is that unit and integration tests are great ways to see examples of how to use code
IATA and ICAO codes, free - https://github.com/datasets/airport-codes - I bet the official version is several thousand dollars :-)
GitHub - datasets/airport-codes: List of Airport codes, locations and other information around the world

List of Airport codes, locations and other information around the world - datasets/airport-codes

GitHub
My goodness, Word just gave me the most useful hint in well over 15 years... CMD + SHIFT + V to paste text without formatting

Every so often, I think it's a good idea to check the software you use and decide whether it's still right for you. For years, I've been using Chrome, but it's increasingly feeling sluggish. Firefox still doesn't feel quite right on macOS, so I've jumped feet-first in to using Safari.

I have to say, it doesn't feel like a horrid transition, although I still revert to Chrome for debugging Vue.js.

I should post here more. The other place is becoming a mouthpiece for Elon Musk
Retro, and mine!
Further to my previous toot, if you then spend the right money on some USB-C to DisplayPort cables, you can even get 60Hz at 3840x2160 on your monitors. Urgh, identical looking cables that aren't identical...!
It turns out that if you spend the right money on a Thunderbolt 4 dock, your setup will absolutely fly, rather than struggle quite badly with your existing setup
When did GitHub start to support visual SVG diffs!? This is an amazing feature!
Multiple external displays from a laptop: yes, I really have spent an hour today trying to get them set up the same way they were yesterday evening despite nothing changing(!)