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 …
My highlights / quotes:
This creates an obvious congestion. Most people try to address it in the wrong way: using pragmatism. Let’s close the issue after two weeks of no original poster replies, after we ask some question. Close all the issues that are not very well specified. And other “inbox zero” solutions. The reality is that to process community feedbacks very well you have to take the time needed
So what happens? That you start to prioritize more and more what to look at and what not. And you feel you are a piece of shit at ignoring so many things and people, and also the contributor believes you don’t care about what others have to give you. It’s a complex situation.Sometimes I just stop looking at issues and PRs for weeks, because I’m coding or designing: that is the work I really love and enjoy. However this in turn creates ways more pressure on me, psychologically. To do what I love and I can do well I’ve to feel like shit.
the sum of the productivity of me working just when I want is greater than the productivity I’ve when I’m forced to work every day in a steady way.
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 …
<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 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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Voici une petite dépêche que j'ai écrite sur le site LinuxFr : https://linuxfr.org/news/generateurs-de-puzzles-libres
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 …
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)
Le code source …
On 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 …
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 …
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 …
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
For the impatient ones, here is …
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 …