Mail.app random signatures


When using an emacs based mail client for many years, I collected various song lyrics that I particularly enjoyed and automatically added them to my signature on outgoing email. As a result of various life changes I’m consuming a lot less email, and have largely switched to Mail.app, which can cope fine with the reduced volume.

I missed my signatures, though, and it doesn’t seem to be possible to write a Mail.app plugin to get them back with the officially supported APIs from Apple (there are some solutions that monkey patch their way in, but they seem unreliable and regularly break).

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A small HTTP POST server


A couple of weeks ago Neil mentioned on Mastodon being interested in a privacy focused GPS logger for use in a car, which was odd, as I was thinking about the exact same thing a few days before. RevK jumped in to provide something, which Neil wrote about a short while later. I was lucky enough to be able to buy one of the first versions (everyone can get one now), but was a bit stuck for time to play with it initially, which I’ve been able to remedy over the last couple of days.

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Evolution calendars in Org Mode's agenda


On a Linux GNOME desktop it’s convenient to use Evolution as a calendar sync tool (for Fastmail in my case). Once a configuration has been created, you can stash away the <mumble>.source files, drop them in place on another machine and (subject to re-entering your password), everything just works.

Such calendars are also available through GNOME Calendar, which is a little easier on the eye for casual glances.

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Looking for a new non-iPad tablet


Dear Lazyweb,

I’m looking for recommendations for a non-iPad tablet, which I imagine means Android. The requirements are not very specific - at least 200dpi, around 10", under £300 (would like under £200). Ideally I would be able to run upstream Android, but I realise that this is unlikely to be possible without buying a Google Pixel tablet.

The Amazon Fire HD tablets would probably be fine in most respects, except that I don’t believe that it’s possible to get rid of the Amazon advertising skin any more (I grabbed a refurb Fire HD 10 to try, and the approach using adb to delete packages now fails), and I find it quite annoying.

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