I recently discovered some really beautiful pieces of generative art on r/generative.
In the same spirit as a precedent article on glitch art, I want to share some of my favorites:
is great!
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 my Settings:
Hence I wrote some simple Javascript code that auto-pass matches for a list of given cities …
(English speakers : go to BoardGameGeek to find the variant & companion web-app for this excellent game)
5 Minute Dungeon est une très belle découverte de Noël !
Il s'agit d'un jeu coopératif basé sur la vivacité, avec comme thématique l'exploration d'un donjon de fantasy (façon dungeon-crawler / PMT).
Pourquoi c'est bien ? Parce …
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 …
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 …
Ce blog voit l'apparition d'une nouvelle page permanente : Images libres de droits.
Cette page recense des site web, des illustrateurs, des icônes et des polices de caractères libres de droits.
Depuis octobre 2018, j'ai rassemblé une liste d'artistes dont j'apprécie le travail et qui placent leurs œuvres sous licence Creative …
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 …
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 …
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 …
When was the last time you wanted to play again an old video game?
Personnaly, I don't usually re-play video games. I'm always more tempted to try a new interesting one found on WarpDoors.
I have the impression that this is common to most video game players, wether the prefer …
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 are have recently found shelter in an eerie monastery.
](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Lucas-C/undying-dusk/main/trailer/undying-dusk-trailer1.gif)
Featuring:
- ~ 200 …
(English PDF rules at the bottom)
Il y a quelques années, lors du festival Paris est Ludique, nous avions testé une petit jeu qui nous avait bien plu : La Route Des Vignes de Eilif Svensson & Kristian Amundsen Østby, édité en France par Matagot.
Pour une description du jeu, je vous …
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 …
fpdf2, the library I mentioned in my previous post, cannot parse existing PDF files.
However, other Python libraries can be combined with fpdf2
in order to add new content to existing PDF files.
This page provides several examples of doing so using pdfrw,
a great zero-dependency pure Python library dedicated …
Today, I am happy to announce a new version 2.2.0 of fpdf2 !
https://github.com/alexanderankin/pyfpdf/
Doc: https://alexanderankin.github.io/pyfpdf/
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 …
Linkback protocols are an old breed. They were born in a time where MySpace, Wikipedia & WordPress had just been born, and Friendster was more popular than this new website called Facebook.
The latest linkback protocol, Webmention, is relatively recent though, as it became a W3C …
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 …
(English version below)
Il y a trois ans, j'évoquais sur ce blog quelques variantes pour le jeu de société Pandémie.
Voici le moment de vous en présenter deux que j'ai confectionné récement, et dont les playtests étaient suffisament amusants pour que je les mette en page, afin de les partager …
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 …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.