Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Typesetting a whole book part III, the analog edition

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In earlier editions ( part 1 , part 2 ) we looked at typesetting a full book to a PDF file. This is fun and all, but until you actually hold...
Monday, October 25, 2021

A call for more downstream testing of Meson

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As Meson gets more and more popular, the number of regressions also grows. This is an unvoidable fact of life. To minimize this effort we pu...
Monday, September 20, 2021

Glyphtracer 2.0

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Ages ago I wrote a simple GUI app called Glyphtracer to simplify the task of creating fonts from scanned images. It seems people are still u...
Saturday, September 11, 2021

Swappable faceplates for laptops

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On the whole, laptops are boring. There are three different types. Apple aluminium laptops that all look the same. Other manufacturer's ...
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Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Hercule Poirot and the Mystery Box, as written by JJ Abrams

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Outside, the scorching heat of the British summer could not have made a starker contrast with the icy cold atmosphere of the main living roo...
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Saturday, July 31, 2021

Looking at building O3DE with Meson, part II

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After the first post , some more time was spent on building O3DE with Meson. This is the second and most likely last post on the subject. Cu...
Friday, July 30, 2021

How much effort would it take to convert OpenSSL's Perl source code generators to Python?

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There is an ongoing discussion to write Meson build definitions to OpenSSL so it can be added to the WrapDB and built transparently as a su...