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I wrote my last post on fpdf2 18 months ago. We released 7 more versions of fpdf2 since then! This article will present some of the major features introduced since v2.7.3 to v2.8.1 of fpdf2: click on the buttons below to reveal the various changes brought …
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I wrote my latest post on fpdf2 almost a year ago. As we just released a new version, v2.7.3, this is the time to mention some recent additions to this library! 😊 This article will present some of the major features introduced between v2.5.3 & v2.7.3 …
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Following last week animated PDF adventure, I have been reading a series of one page dungeons... And yesterday I had the opportunity to play the best one in my opinion: The Sky-Blind Spire by Michael Prescott. It has everything I love on one page: a maze to explore, mysteries to …
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Last week, while translating John Harper's micro-TTRPG World of Dungeons: Turbo Breakers, I discovered the wonderful world of one page dungeons, starting with Michael Prescott splendid production at trilemma.com and also the yearly One Page Dungeon Context. While crawling through the OPDC 2021 entries, I discovered a great map …
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Today I made a small addition to a Javascript library I sometimes use to generate nonograms. This tool can now build a solvable grid in the form of a valid QR Code that, once decoded, reveals some text: The nonogram size will depend on the hidden text size, but even …
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fpdf2 is a simple & fast PDF creation library for Python that I have been maintaining since mid-2020. In this article, I'm going to present some of the new features that landed since my last post on the subject. Hence, this will cover versions 2.5.0, 2.5.1 & 2 …
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I very recently joined , and it seems great! Even if its new system makes difficult to talk to new people. One things that annoys me a little though, is that I often get matches for people too far away from where I live, even with the distance filter set in …
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Last month, I realized late that October was hacktoberfest month! This online event is a month-long celebration (October 1-31) of open source software run in partnership with different software companies, with a focus on encouraging contributions to open source projects. While I participated in the 2019 edition as a contributor …
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I have been amazed recently at the diversity of contributors on the fpdf2 project, coming from all around the world! Then I thought it would be nice to visualize this diversity by building a world map of all contributors locations. There it is: Click on the image to access an …
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Today I finally took the time to put up a live demo website for Hesperides! https://hesperides.herokuapp.com Hesperides is an open source tool dedicated to configuration management: it stores applications properties and mustache templates for configurations files. It is strongly hierarchized based on few main concepts: modules, applications …
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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 …
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Undying Dusk is a video game in a PDF format, with a gameplay based on exploration and logic puzzles, in the tradition of dungeon crawlers. A curse set by the Empress keeps the world in an eternal dusk. You have recently found shelter in an eerie monastery. Featuring: ~ 200 000 …
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Today, I am happy to announce version 2.3.0 of fpdf2, code name: Unbreakable! https://github.com/pyfpdf/fpdf2/ Doc: https://pyfpdf.github.io/fpdf2/ Why Unbreakable? As a tribute to M. Night Shyamalan movie Because using fpdf2, your Python code can never break! ... Just kidding, I would be …
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Today, I am happy to announce a new version 2.2.0 of fpdf2 ! https://github.com/pyfpdf/fpdf2/ Doc: https://pyfpdf.github.io/fpdf2/ During the last few months, I contributed a few improvements to fpdf2, David Ankin fork of PyFPDF, the user-friendly Python library to generate PDFs: from …
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Linkback protocols are an old breed. They were born in a time where MySpace, Wikipedia & WordPress had just been launched, and Friendster was more popular than this new website called Facebook. Diagram source: PPRuNe article on linkbacks The latest linkback protocol, Webmention, is relatively recent though, as it became a …
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If you are linking your own blog or puzzle game/app, please submit this as a comment in the stickied self promotion thread. Please either post a text version of your puzzle, or rehost the image through Reddit or Imgur. Links to blogs/apps should be kept to the self promotion thread. --> Depuis le 24 mars, avec ma compagne, nous avons décidé de partager un petit puzzle logique par jour à nos amis & familles, pour les distraire un peu en cette période difficile. J'avais même bricolé un petit système de score, et j'en profite d'ailleurs pour féliciter ici les gagnants ! Comme aujourd'hui …
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The FOSDEM'20 (Free & Open Source Developers’ European Meeting) conference is: a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate It took place last week-end at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and I had the chance to attend it. Sincere thanks to my employer, oui.sncf, for financing …
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At work, we needed to retrieve the full list of jobs a given Jenkins instance was hosting. Our first solution was to use the jenkinsapi Python package: import xml.etree.ElementTree as XmlElementTree from jenkinsapi.jenkins import Jenkins def get_all_jenkins_jobs(server_url): jenkins = Jenkins(server_url, lazy=True, timeout=30, username=os …
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Iframes not supported. Click on the link below to access the graphs. The iframe above displays some graphs I've built last week, in order to get some insight on some GitHub projects issues & pull requests evolution. They are directly inspired by nf-core project activity statistics. Click here to open those …
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Yesterday I was crafting some puzzles for my girlfriends, and I was looking for letter-based ones where I a secret word would be revealed once solved. With this same goal, I had already once worked on an open-source JS word search generator: https://lucas-c.github.io/wordfind/ (pour les francophones …
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Over the past years, on software programming projects where my end users where developers (other than myself or my team), I have tried to follow the advice of this website : keepachangelog(.com) A changelog is defined by Wikipedia as : a log or record of all notable changes made to a …
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Je crois que j'envisage d'écrire un article sur ce sujet depuis que j'ai créé ce blog ! J'ai retrouvé ces notes datant d'au moins 5 ans, déposées au fin fond d'un fichier texte : Dans tous ces jeux, un des plaisirs principaux provient de la découverte, à deux ou plus, des règles …
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Crows Crows Crows est un studio de jeu vidéo créé en 2015, à l'origine entre autres du jeu complètement déjanté Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist et le créateur du studio, William Pugh, est également un des auteurs de The Stanley Parable. En 2016 …
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Voici une petite dépêche que j'ai écrite sur le site LinuxFr : https://linuxfr.org/news/generateurs-de-puzzles-libres
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flask httpie requests simplejson botocore scrapy docker-compose ansible What are those diagrams ? They show dependencies between the internal modules of various well-known Python libraries. They goal is to provide a global overview of a Python project architecture, as a map of modules & packages, the top-level code abstractions. Note that all …
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Une courte présentation que j'ai donné ce matin à l'école d'ingénieurs IMT Atlantique (ex Ecole des Mines) via oui.sncf : (la navigation est meilleure avec les flêches gauche / droite du clavier) Iframes non supportées. Cliquez sur le lien dans le paragraphe ci-dessous pour accéder directement aux slides. Le code source …
Read MoreOn my personnal server, I used to send myself alerts by email using the handy standard mail command. However, recently it appeared that my server became categorized as "spammer" by some online service providers, due to the alerts frequency (a little bit more than one per day). Hence, I got …
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Le week-end dernier, j'ai participé à ma première Global Game Jam, à Nantes. Dans cet article, je vais vous présenter comment elle s'est déroulée, et faire le point sur ce qui a plus ou moins bien marché pour notre projet, The King Must Know, dont voici l'écran d'accueil : J'avais déjà …
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Cette année, voyages-sncf.com m'a permis d'aller à la conférence annuelle Python à Toulouse. En vrac, voici un petit résumé personnel de cette PyConFr. J'y étais présent 3 jours sur 4 (sprint le premier et conférences les deux autres), et j'y ai donné donné 2 présentations, dont le contenu est …
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In this blog post, I'm going to demonstrate how to reuse WiseMapping HTML+JS rendering engine to easily visualize... text-based mindmaps like this one have many benefits they are readable as-it-is they don't require any tool to be edited [they follow the UNIX tenets](http://www.ru.j-npcs.org/usoft …
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This week I wrote a small Python script, that can generate a mindmap from a simple indented text input like this: Winter december january february Spring march april may Summer june july august Autumn september october november The command: ./graphviz_mindmap.py seasons.txt. The results, with various layout parameters: Another …
Read MoreNouvelle feature pour mon petit projet d'éditeur/visualisateur de feuille de perso de jdr: rpg-bonhomme : une homepage liste désormais tous les layouts et les persos créés !
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I love reveal.js. I've been using it for years. But the other day, I was badly bitten by its requirement on a local HTTP server. What happenned was that I was invited to make a short presentation in a youth and cultural center. I had prepared some slides with …
Read MoreA year ago, I built a small JS lib using D3.js to visualize JSON-defined genealogy trees. At the beginning of the year, I added a new feature using flex-calendar and moment-ferie-fr : a birthday calendar using the same JSON genealogy definition and miniature images. I added this calendar to the …
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I'd like to introduce you to an awesome git companion : pre-commit hooks by Yelp. Git hooks are scripts that git executes before or after events such as: commit, push, and receive. Git hooks are a built-in feature, but git does not offer much support for them: if there is a …
Read MoreI'm happy to introduce you with genealogic-d3, a Javascript visualization library to nicely display genealogy trees that I've been working on during the past 3 days. I'm quite satisfied by the result. You'll find a live demo you can play with at https://chezsoi.org/lucas/genealogic-d3/skywalker.html I …
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