I wrote my latest post on fpdf2 almost a year ago. As we just released a new version, v2.7, 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 of …

Universal pencil puzzle editor capable of drawing many different kinds of pencil puzzles. You can also solve problems in the software.

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 everythng I love on one page: a maze to explore, mysteries to …

permet de modifier de façon subtile et imperceptible une image, de sorte qu'elle ne puisse pas être rattachée à un visage sur une autre photo [...] : il retouche très légèrement les traits principaux du visage afin de tromper la reconnaissance faciale. Le procédé s'appuie sur une base de données contenant des visages de célébrités.

En utilisant des visages de stars ressemblant très peu aux photographies originales, les images s'en trouvent étrangement transformées.
«Les changements apportés à [mes] photos sont visibles à l'œil nu. Sur les images modifiées, j'ai l'air morte, ma fille de 3 ans a du duvet sur le visage et mon mari a l'air d'avoir un œil au beurre noir.»

Githup repo: https://github.com/fawkesrobotics/fawkes

Un outil comme celui-ci est utile pour fournir une version texte d'un fichier média (audio ou vidéo). L'objectif de ce programme est de fournir un outil simple et rapide pour permettre de récupérer un texte et l'utiliser comme version numérique.

Au commencement était le projet de communs numériques "Common Voice" initié par la fondation Mozilla [...] Puis vint le projet du logiciel libre Vosk, à l'initiative d'un collectif de chercheurs (Alpha Cephei) [...] Enfin, vint le projet de transcription de Tykayn, contributeur de l'association "April" [...] Pour finir, vint le projet Scribe, à l'initiative de l'équipe SI des Ceméa qui créa cette interface, simple et fonctionnelle, basique pour proposer aux utilisateur·rices de bénéficier de l'ensemble de ces fonctionnalités sous une forme plus conviviale.

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:

To find more about it: Nonogram JS demo page.

Note that I've …

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 …

Added

• new parameters new_x and new_y for cell() and multi_cell(), replacing ln=0, thanks to @gmischler
• new add_highlight() method to insert highlight annotations: documentation
• new offset_rendering() method: documentation
• new .text_mode property: documentation
• the page structure of the documentation has been revised, with a new page about adding text, thanks to @gmischler
• a warning is now raised if a context manager is used inside an unbreakable() section, which is not supported

Changed

• local_context() can now "scope" even more properties, like blend_mode: documentation

Fixed

• No font properties should be leaked anymore after using markdown or in any other situations (cf. #359), thanks to @gmischler
• If multi_cell(align="J") is given text with multiple paragraphs (text followed by an empty line) at once, it now renders the last line of each paragraph left-aligned,
  instead of just the very last line (cf. #364), thanks to @gmischler
• a regression: now again multi_cell() always renders a cell, even if txt is an empty string - cf. #349
• a bug with string width calculation when Markdown is enabled - cf. #351
• a few bugs when parsing some SVG files - cf. #356, #358 & #376
• a bug when using multi_cell(..., split_only=True) inside an unbreakable section - cf. #359

Deprecated

• The parameter ln to cell() and multi_cell() is now deprecated, use new_x and new_y instead.
• The parameter center to cell() is now deprecated, use align="C" instead.

Displaying deprecation warnings

DeprecationWarnings are not displayed by Python by default.

Hence, every time you use a newer version of fpdf2, we strongly encourage you to execute your scripts
with the -Wd option (cf. documentation)
in order to get warned about deprecated features used in your code.

This can also be enabled programmatically with warnings.simplefilter('default', DeprecationWarning).

A free and open source web solution to visualize and explore 3D models right in your browser

Sources: https://github.com/kovacsv/Online3DViewer

TL;DR: There are three options to fix an NPM dependency:

• Open a bug ticket on the repository of the maintainer
• Fork & Fix
• Create a patch and fix it

J'avais tendance à privilégier la 2e solution, mais elle a l’inconvénient de créer une dépendance à github.com au moment du build, ce qui n'est pas toujours pratique dans un contexte d'entreprise... patch-package peut donc s'avérer bien pratique dans ce cas

Code source de https://www.mobicoop.fr

Made with Symfony

par Mathieu O'Neil, Laure Muselli, Fred Pailler & Stefano Zacchiroli

La communauté du logiciel libre peut-elle se constituer en entité politique qui réfléchit, au-delà du logiciel, sur la société dans son ensemble ? Peut-elle se confronter aux orthodoxies productivistes, au développement infini de la puissance de calcul ? Tout le passé indique le contraire. Son succès, pourtant, en dépend.

Libervia est un outil tout-en-un pour gérer tous vos besoins en communication: messagerie instantanée, (micro)blogage, partage de fichiers, albums photo, événements, forums, gestion de tâches, etc.

Ça me semble être le genre d'outil idéal pour un écolieu / de l'habitat participatif

TL;DR version of lessons from the post:

1. Writing open source software can be very rewarding in ways you can’t predict
2. Be in it for the long haul
3. Ship it and ship regularly
4. Have broad, open-ended goals
5. If you care enough, you’ll find the time
6. No one cares about your unit test coverage
7. There’s no shame in marketing
8. Clear it with your employer
9. Foster community
10. Keep it enjoyable

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/smta85/lessons_learned_from_my_10_year_open_source/

$ npm install faker@6.6.6

LIBERTY LIBERTY LIBERTY

Article complémentaire FR: https://www.01net.com/actualites/au-bout-du-rouleau-un-developpeur-sabote-ses-logiciels-open-source-2053434.html

This person should be funded in a level that is appropriate for how critical log4j2 is used in the ecosystem. There is no excuse for this. This person's spare time passion project is responsible for half of the internet working the way it should.

TL;DR: If you want me to make you useful software, pay me. If you use software made by others in their spare time and find it useful, pay them. This should not be a controversial opinion. This should not be a new thing. This should already be the state of the world and it is amazingly horrible for us to have the people that make the things that make our software work at all starve and beg for donations.

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 …