Fri 20 August 2021

The other day, while watching La Carte aux trésors at my elderly neighbor's house, I casually played peg solitaire on a board she has. After many failures at trying to get rid of all pawns but one, I started to wonder about the mathematics & algorithmics behind that game... Back home …

Sat 12 June 2021

fpdf2 is a minimalist PDF creation library for Python that I am maintaining. With the release yesterday of its v2.4.0, I'm going to present some of its notable new features since the latest minor version. https://github.com/pyfpdf/fpdf2/ Doc: https://pyfpdf.github.io/fpdf2/ JPEG images …

Fri 23 November 2018

I just added a favicon to this site, representing a glider of Conway's Game of Life. This GIF was made with a Python script. The source code is on GitHub, and uses Zhao Liang's gifmaze.py. Feel free to reuse the code to make you own favicons 😉 article img { transform …

Mon 08 January 2018

Daniel Linssen, aka managore, is a fantastic indie game developer. I already mentioned one of his games, HopSlide, in a previous blog post (FR). Now that it's clear that I am totally unbiased about this incredible game maker, lets talk about his latest games ! WalkieTalkie This first one simply amazes …

Fri 10 October 2014

To illustrate my previous post and keep images at a reasonable size, I had to shrink down the top GIF from 14Mb to 3.2Mb. Usually, online GIF converters will provide the ability to lower down the image dimensions. Another solution to reduce its size is to simply skip some …