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| | hackaday.io
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| | I've posted the scripts used to generate the anti-aliased text used in the User Interface. The first is a Photoshop script,CreateFontData.jsx. This makes a set of PNG files, one for each character. The second isConvertText.py, a Python script that takes the output of CreateFontData and generates C code for display the characters on the Epson LCD used in the project. Note these scripts have some hard-coded pathnames in them (to the development folder) but this is pretty easy to find and modify.
| | ericlathrop.com
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| | I often need to view a bunch of static HTML files in my browser locally, and I often need to open them with http:// rather than file:// URLs so related CSS or JavaScript files load correctly. Luckily, Python provides a simple web server, and most Linux distros include Python.
| | somic.org
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| | Personal blog of Dmitriy Samovskiy, focuses on cloud computing, infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, infrastructure as code, Linux, devops, python, ruby, rabbitmq, Amazon Web Services EC2
| | simonwillison.net
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| There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because ...