Pylint is a great static code analyser for Python code. I have been using it for several years, in various projects, and it's simple to use yet very powerful.
I even contributed to Pylint by submitting a new rule a few years ago : implicit-str-concat.
For an introduction to Pylint, you …
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 …
The other day, while working on fpdf2,
I used @dataclass,
a nice decorator that came in the standard library with Python 3.7,
to quickly define a class that mostly stored data.
Then a question came to my mind: is the __slots__ memory optimization compatible with …
Psi*Run de Meguey Baker, traduit en français par Alexis Lamiable, est un jeu que j'adore. Je l'ai déjà évoqué ici à plusieurs reprises.
La semaine dernière, j'ai eu l'occasion de faire une session de ce jeu de rôle avec quelques amis …
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 …
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 …
Rumble in the Dungeon est ma dernière belle découverte ludique !
C'est un jeu très court (20-30 min par partie) pour 3 à 6 joueurs, alliant hasard, tactique et un peu de bluff, avec la possibilité d'enjoliver chaque action avec …
Recently at work, at SNCF Connect & Tech,
we needed to expose some static documents as HTTP endpoints:
a GET /version that would provide some information about the application version as JSON,
and a GET /openapi/yaml that would return the OpenAPI 3 specification of our HTTP API as YAML.
We …
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 …
There are some notable recent addition to my page Images sous licences libres:
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Meg James - mostly CC BY-NC-SA - fantasy & furries
a queer agender digital artist in southeast Washington State, mostly doing art and comics
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/