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• July 28, 2023 — R.I.P. Tinkerer, welcome ABlog

  Tinkerer is dead, or in the words of its author: retired in favor of Baku.

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• January 21, 2022 — Finally updated software page

  No, not the software itself, that’s still all Python 2. But I finally fixed the links, (long) after Bitbucket stopped hosting Mercurial repositories, from the project pages at Bitbucket. It’s all back to self hosted source archives again.

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• October 03, 2018 — Digits int() doesn’t dig

  Some time ago I wrote in More Than Just ASCII Digits about all the unicode characters Python’s int() function converts to numbers.

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• April 16, 2016 — Chasing a dot on a HTML5 canvas

  A forum question about how to detect a collision of two balls for a school project (in Python) lead me to write my first HTML5 <canvas> element code.

  Move the mouse over the square below and try to catch the blue dot with the red one.

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• March 08, 2016 — More Than Just ASCII Digits

  Python’s int() converts more than just ASCII digits. It also converts decimal digits from other scripts.

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• April 07, 2015 — summer.py version 0.0.2

  A software I use from time to time but a source code I haven’t touched for almost ten years, except for changing some small things when moving from a private Subversion repository to a public Mercurial one hosted at Bitbucket.

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• August 19, 2014 — PySensors now under LGPL

  I’ve got an email asking why PySensors, a Python binding to libsensors, is released under the GPL. It was because it was written to use the two latest libsensors APIs (3 and 4) and the shared library for the next to last API version is GPL licensed.

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• April 29, 2014 — rtar.py version 0.4.0

  More than nine years passed since I touched the source code of this tool. I still use it on a regular basis and needed/wanted LZMA compression as this has found its way into GNU tar for some time now.

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• September 12, 2013 — Table of contents in Tinkerer blogposts

  While upgrading the blog software used for this blog I wanted to fix a problem with table of contents (TOC) within blog posts. Activating a TOC with just this reStructuredText directive:

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• March 16, 2013 — Pygments highlights CBM BASIC & ca65 assembler sources

  Since version 1.6 the syntax highlighter Pygments has support for CBM BASIC V2 and assembler sources in ca65 format. ca65 is the macro assembler of the cc65 C cross compiler package.

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