12 July 2021 · python
· camelot
I'm happy to announce that Camelot v0.10.0 is out!
tl;dr
- You can now choose between two image conversion backends, or supply your own.
pip install camelot-py[base]
instead of pip install camelot-py[cv]
Background
Camelot uses ghostscript
to convert a PDF page into a PNG so that …
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09 February 2021 · linux
· ubuntu
I've been using Fraidycat as an RSS reader for some time. The project puts out an AppImage
as a release asset, which is a neat way for distributing software on Linux because it does not need root privileges to install things in system directories.
After making a Software.AppImage
file …
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02 November 2020 · recurse-center
Friday was the last day of my batch :(
I've been writing these posts a day or two after the actual day, but this one is slightly late because my laptop charger gave up on me while I was hanging out with Edith and Adam after the Halloween party on Friday …
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01 November 2020 · recurse-center
Today I continued working on translating cutypr to Rust.
I was able to serialize and sign messages, and send them to the kernel, but the kernel kept saying that the message has an invalid signature :( I found it difficult to debug and check if the (message signature) bytes sent from …
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01 November 2020 · recurse-center
Today I worked on translating cutypr to Rust.
I found that I could use pyo3 to start the IPython kernel from Rust! So I wrote a start_kernel()
Python function to start the IPython kernel, returned some useful information (the key required to sign messages + ports for all kernel channels) from …
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