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| | dusty.phillips.codes
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| | I really appreciate Python's pathlib module for managing filesystem stuff. While I don't love the argparse module for command line parsing, I don't think it's worse than other available options. I usually choose it for my CLI scripts, since nothing else is good enough to overcome the inertia of using a third party library. Not many people seem to be aware that the two can very easily be combined such that argparse will return Path objects instead of strings that need to be adapted after you query them:
| | blog.alexwendland.com
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| | jimlawless.net
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| | [AI summary] The article demonstrates how to use the rembg Python library to remove image backgrounds, including installation steps, troubleshooting a download issue, and providing a script for batch processing images.
| | flameeyes.blog
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| In my previous post on the matter I incorrectly blamed NewsBlur - which I still recommend as the best feed reader I've ever used! - for not correctly supporting HTTP features to avoid wasting bandwidth for fetching repeatedly unmodified content. As Daniel and Samuel pointed out immediately, NewsBlur does support those features, and indeed I...