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Running on behalf of Children With Cancer in 2025

• running

• charity, calendar, 10k, half marathon, fun run, marathon

• 2024-12-01
• 5 minutes to read

I am going to raise money for Children with Cancer UK in 2025, a charity that works to help children and young people survive cancer.

Adding Bluesky links, buttons and icons to my Hugo site

• hugo

• bluesky, gethugomodules

• 2024-11-17
• 9 minutes to read

Talks through the changes I needed to make in order to set up social links and a share to bluesky button on my site.

Simplified Way to Install Sqlpackage on macOS using dotnet

• data, mac

• sqlpackage, dotnet, macos, homebrew

• 2024-11-15
• 1 minute to read

It has been a right pain installing Sqlpackage on macOS but it is really easy to do using the dotnet sdk and homebrew

My activities tracker for community contributions in 2024

• community

• tracker, stem, data weekender, data toboggan, mentoring, sql bits, code club

• 2024-10-31
• 2 minutes to read

A list of events and activities I have contributed to STEM and the community during the calendar year.

Taking over the running of a Code Club in Cardiff via STEM

• community

• code club, stem

• 2024-10-07
• 3 minutes to read

Decrypt encrypted PDFs Using macOS Automator Quick Actions

• mac

• automator

• 2024-08-23
• 5 minutes to read

This post describes how to set up an Automator Quick Action that will decrypt multiple PDF files via Finder on macOS.