https://tomhonour.neocities.org/blog/ Recent content on tomhonour Hugo en-gb Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://tomhonour.neocities.org/blog/an-easy-way-for-beginners-to-get-the-pull-shark-achievement-on%20github/ Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://tomhonour.neocities.org/blog/an-easy-way-for-beginners-to-get-the-pull-shark-achievement-on%20github/ I don’t care much for GitHub and recommend better git forges like sourcehut and Codeberg, but I understand that it’s being used as a way for people to flaunt their skills to potential employers. GitHub rewards their users with ‘achievements’ for performing specific forge-related tasks, which would contribute to the above goal. Here’s an easy way to get the ‘Pull Shark’ achievement (opening a pull requests and having it merged), and contribute to a good project. https://tomhonour.neocities.org/blog/setting-up-a-vala-development-environment/ Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://tomhonour.neocities.org/blog/setting-up-a-vala-development-environment/ Here is what I believe is the easiest way to setup a Vala development environment. If you don’t know what Vala is, you can find out here. Vala is the easiest way I found to create programs with a GUI. Some other beginner-friendly ways are PyGObject (Python language binding for GTK) and Qt for Python. This setup uses flatpak, VSCodium, and my distro of choice, Debian. The following commands will install: https://tomhonour.neocities.org/blog/the-gym-group-see-capacity-without-the-app/ Fri, 30 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://tomhonour.neocities.org/blog/the-gym-group-see-capacity-without-the-app/ If you’re like me, you hate busy gyms. I was very happy to learn that I can view my gym’s capacity at any time with The Gym Group: But there’s a catch! It can only be viewed using their app. This annoying decision is made even more annoying after you discover that in order to get the number, the app is just making a simple web request. You really have to wonder why I need to provide location data (a necessary app permission), and have Google Play Services enabled, just to see the response of a web request.