Chris Buckley

Making SVGs Dark Mode & Reading Mode Friendly

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:53:00 +0000

I use Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs) on this site as they’re an effective format for diagrams; they can be easily modified, styled, animated and localised.

Deep Links to GitHub Actions Job Logs

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:37:00 +0100

In GitHub Actions, you can rather easily create a link to the current workflow run:

Removing AWS EC2 IPv4 Addresses

Sun, 28 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In July 2023, AWS announced they will charge for IPv4 addresses starting 1 February 2024. The new charge will be the same as the existing charge for an idle IP: $0.005 per hour; slightly over $40 per year per IP address. If you’re running some small T2 or T3 instances for general-purpose workloads, this could increase your monthly cost somewhere between 20–40%. The EC2 free tier will include 750 hours of usage for 12 months, so a single IPv4 address should be pretty much free for that time, but if you’ve exhausted the free tier or have multiple IP addresses, this charge will start to appear very soon.

Victorious Festival 2021

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0100

This was my first time at Victorious Festival in Portsmouth, and after the past 18 months, it was great to be back!

Generate Nested URL List in Jekyll

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This site uses Jekyll on GitHub Pages, which has a restricted set of plugins that can be used when generating the static site.

Shorter Git Remotes

Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:05:00 +0100

When using Bitbucket, you can end up with quite unwieldy Git URLs:

Lockdown Activities

Fri, 24 Apr 2020 00:38:00 +0100

So much has been written about the COVID-19 pandemic over the past few months, and adding any more to it will certainly not be helpful. But while we all learn to cope with our new reality, it’s been important for me to refocus my attention from the external to the internal.

Detecting Character Encoding

Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

I occasionally find myself having to determine the character encoding of a file, either for foreign-language content or other data files that don’t identify their encoding.

Google Home So Far

Thu, 03 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been playing with Google Home quite a bit recently, with mixed success to say the least.

New Site (Again)

Sun, 13 May 2018 00:00:00 +0100

This isn’t the first time I’ve moved my personal site; the first post I still have was after I lost some old blog posts, and I moved to WordPress in 2012 to avoid supporting a separate blog and page builder. However, it was still running on my VPS, and I’ve been trying to remove all production content from there for a while.