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 …
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 …
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 …For a given test software project and a random group of developpers,
a single sentence in the specs estimating that it should take 2 or 20 months to complete,
is the main statistical drive explaining why it took, in the end, 5 or 15 months to produce it,
regardless of how much experience the developpers have in the domain,
how much experience they have in software development in general,
what techniques they're using or how familiar they are with the tools.
This is known as the Anchoring effect bias
Source: Greg Wilson - What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It's True @ 15:55
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 source code for these demos is freely available at http://github.com/jamis/csmazes
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="images/enigmes/topoloku.css">
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 …
The Software may not be used in applications and services that are used for or aid in the exploration, extraction, refinement, processing, or transportation of fossil fuels. The Software may not be used by companies that rely on fossil fuel extraction as their primary means of revenue. This includes but is not limited to the companies listed at https://climatestrike.software/blacklist
FROM: http://taint.org/2020/01/28/235803a.html
It made me think about Tobie Langel idea to forbid the use of software for activities against human rights:
https://chezsoi.org/lucas/blog/minutes-of-the-fosdem-2020-conference.html#sunday-1255-bringing-back-ethics-to-open-source---tobie-langel
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 …
Issue #5 is out !
Paged Out! is a new experimental (one article == one page) free magazine about programming (especially programming tricks!), hacking, security hacking, retro computers, modern computers, electronics, demoscene, and other similar topics.
Issue #2 includes a crazy prime Python quine ! (page 35) O.O
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.
Last week-end was the 30th anniversary of one of my best friends. For the occasion, I wanted to craft him a small puzzle with a custom secret drawing, as a reminder of some shared memories.
I came upon Erik & Martin Demaine's creation for CSAIL 2006, a print & play puzzle based …
Turns out PHP standard crc32 method is non-standard (while crc32b is).
Here is how to implement it in Python:
def php_crc32(a):
'''
References:
- https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.hash-file.php#104836
- https://stackoverflow.com/a/50843127/636849
'''
crc = 0xffffffff
for x in a:
crc ^= x << 24;
for k in range(8):
crc = (crc << 1) ^ 0x04c11db7 if crc & 0x80000000 else crc << 1
crc = ~crc
crc &= 0xffffffff
# Convert from big endian to little endian:
return int.from_bytes(crc.to_bytes(4, 'big'), 'little')