Notes - Juan Fernandes - Freelance Web Designer Short posts, thoughts about code, design and personal stuff 2021-05-27T23:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/ Juan Fernandes info@juanfernandes.uk TIL: Generating a hash from the command line 2021-05-27T23:00:00Z 2021-05-27T23:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/notes/til-generating-a-hash-from-the-command-line/ Since adding Content Security Policies to my website, I need to add a sha for any inline scripts I use - I only use one, which initiates my ServiceWorker.

I keep forgetting how to genetate shas. Making a note for future reference.

You can generate a hash using openssl:

echo -n 'doSomething();' | openssl sha256 -binary | openssl base64

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]]> TIL - Webmention and URLs 2021-05-05T23:00:00Z 2021-05-05T23:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/notes/til-webmention-and-urls/ TIL: If you create a post with a title that has uppercase letters, like IR35 - the URL will have those capital letters in your file system, but in the live URL they will be lowercase.

This may be obvious to some, but I had not noticed until I started working on implementing webmentions on my website.

A webmention recorded against /blog/working-an-inside-ir35-contract/ will not show mentions for /blog/working-an-inside-IR35-contract/.

Took me a few hours to figure out that was why webmentions were not showing for that blog post!

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]]> Opting out of Google's FLoC Network 2021-04-27T00:00:00Z 2021-04-27T00:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/notes/google-floc/ "Google recently announced the rollout of their Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), a new advertising-surveillance initiative that seeks to replace third-party cookies with a new user profiling technique that garners data generated by the browser itself."

Yeah - no thanks Google. Following Paramdeo's instructions I have added Permissions-Policy = "interest-cohort=()" to my netlify.toml file and just like that my website will be opted out of the Google FLoC network.

Follow the instructions in Paramdeo's post if you want to do the same to your website - Opting your Website out of Google's FLoC Network

#PrivacyControl

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]]> Escaping Nunjucks code in a markdown code block 2020-09-23T00:00:00Z 2020-09-23T00:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/notes/escaping-nunjucks-code-in-a-markdown-code-block/ I noticed that my latest blog post wasn't showing the Nunjucks code within markdown code blocks. Turns out you need to escape Nunjucks code if you are using nunjucks templates. 😁

Found a solution by Mark Llobrera - Eleventy: Escaping Nunjucks Statements in Markdown Code Blocks

{% raw %}{% if postImage %}
  <meta name="twitter:image" property="og:image" content="{{ site.cloudinary_url }}{{ postImage }}" />
{% endif %}{% endraw %}

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]]> Recording audio input from other apps 2020-07-03T00:00:00Z 2020-07-03T00:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/notes/recording-audio-input-from-other-apps/ I've been wanting to get back into recording gameplay, going to restart my Minecraft Let's Play series - but last time I did this, I was using a Toshiba laptop running on Ubuntu Linux.

So I've been reconfiguring OBS and working out the best screen size and testing sound... and for some reason, OBS was not recording the game sounds, it said Desktop Audio is disabled.

After a few searches, I came across an article that explained how to solve this issue - turns out you need another piece of software, iShowU, to be able to capture the sounds from one app to another!

Here is the guide I followed - How to capture Mac desktop audio with OBS - but this has been deleted. Here is a similar article you can follow - How to Record Desktop Audio with OBS

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]]> Getting rid of Google calendar 2020-02-15T00:00:00Z 2020-02-15T00:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/notes/getting-rid-of-google-calendar/ Replacing Google calendar has been one of the hardest apps/services to replace.

We use a shared Google calendar at home and I couldn't finding an app & service combo that is affordable.

I looked at Fastmail to replace email & calendar, but it's very expensive for a family of 6. I wish they did a family plan.

Solution

I opted for a WebDAV shared calendar using NextCloud on a Digital Ocean droplet. I then installed the DavX app to synchronise with the calendar app on my phone.

I now need to replicate this setup on the other family members' phones.

But I still have to use the Google Calendar app on my phone because DavX doesn't sync with other calendar apps it seems, at least until I replace the Android OS.

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]]> Pi-hole and New Router 2020-02-14T00:00:00Z 2020-02-14T00:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/notes/pi-hole-and-new-router/ The next stage in my privacy control adventure is to setup Pi-hole at home. To do this I've had to buy a new router to replace the BT Home Hub because it doesn't let you change the DNS servers, which you need to do in order to point it at Pi-hole.

New router has now been setup and the BT Home Hub is being used just for WIFI.

Will be setting up the Pi-hole this weekend.

"The Pi-hole® is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content, without installing any client-side software." - https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole

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]]> Eleventy Cloudinary Shortcode 2020-02-12T00:00:00Z 2020-02-12T00:00:00Z https://www.juanfernandes.uk/notes/eleventy-cloudinary-shortcode/ I made a thing. I've created a shortcode for @eleventy so I can use Cloudinary images within markdown files. This is something I discovered I needed while using Forestry.io and markdown files.

With a bit of help from @FrankTldr at Forestry in identifying the solution, I set off and created it.

https://github.com/juanfernandes/eleventy-plugin-cloudinary

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