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Peter Anderson

Christian - Husband & Father - Web Developer

The Old Baking Dish

22nd Jan 2019

A pastor was giving the message to his congregation one Sunday morning when he recounted the following story:

"Me missus and I have this old baking dish that we picked up somewhere many years ago. It's a good quality baking dish, which is why we like it, but it's stained and doesn't look very nice. We've tried cleaning it with all sorts of products and chemicals, but the stains simply refuse to come off. So now we've given up. We'll still use it for baking, but not as much as we'd like to."

"One night we had some mates over for tea. Me missus had cooked so much tucker that we'd run out of...

Facebook Freedom

23rd Dec 2018

Facebook app

I'm quitting Facey.
It's something I've been thinking about doing for a while now, and I'm finally taking the plunge (although it feels less like a dive into the unknown and more like the freedom of being unshackled).

I avoided Facey for a long time, proudly wearing the (imaginary) I-don't-use-Facey badge. But then I wanted to promote me business more and decided to setup a Facey page for it. A Facey business page requires a personal Facey account to manage it. I hid me personal account for the first few months, using it solely to manage me business page, but eventually started using me...

Letter Counting Function (and My First Python Script!)

18th Dec 2018

Lots of numbers!

So I was watching Matt Parker's "Four has Four Letters" video, and I was interested to know how the Estonian language compared to English with regard to the letter counting function.

To summarise the video, in English each number has a word (or words) and each of those words have a certain number of letters. In all cases except the number 4, the word has a different number of letters than the number it represents. Ya can count these letters, then make a chain of numbers, all of which, in English, eventually lead ya back to 4.

Example time! The word for the number 8, 'eight', has 5...

My Minimal Phone

27th Sep 2018

Hands holding a smartphone

Smartphones are a great resource. They give us access to the internet wherever we are, allow us to check in with social media, emails and mates online, and provide entertainment through games and interesting (though sometimes pointless) apps. But smartphones have a dark side too. They give us access to the internet wherever we are, allow us to check in with social media, emails and mates online, and provide entertainment through games and interesting (though sometimes pointless) apps.

Nah, that's not a copy-paste error. The same benefits of smartphones can also be viewed as problems for...

Anti-Spam Test: Introduction

24th Apr 2018

No junk mail

I have been thinking recently about porting Drupal's 'Antibot' module to Backdrop CMS. On the five Backdrop sites I've built to date I use the 'reCAPTCHA' module, however I'd like to get away from needing a separate (Google) account to avoid spam, and requiring users to take an extra step to submit a form (tick a checkbox to prove they're not a robot). Antibot looks good in this case, as it doesn't require any third-party accounts and is completely hidden from the user. But before I start porting Antibot to Backdrop, I'd like to know how effective it is in relation to other anti-spam...

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