My kid’s school teachers upload worksheets to print via public Google Drive links. Google doesn’t provide a direct link for download, you have to visit the page and download or “print” it to get the PDF.
While looking at Python libraries to implement my own downloader, I found gdown which does exactly what I need! Thank you, Kentaro…
There’s No Such Thing as a Blank Page:
I don’t want AI to make my writing “better” (I want reading, and sitting in the chair, writing, every single day that I can, for hours at a time, because I’m not distracted by algorithmically recommended content and incessant notifications and p…
For a time, I was interested on improving my typing accuracy. My current average is 96 words per minute (WPM); I could go faster but I’d also make a lot of errors.
I’m focusing on accuracy, trying to reach a minimum of 97% if not 100%. This meant going down to 80 WPM or even lower, with the goal of returning to my average of 90 but at 100% accuracy.
I learnt cadence is very important. You don…
For a change, I went to the last page of my bookmarks manager‘s unread list. The oldest links were from 2019, six years ago! Naturally, most were broken. Others weren’t relevant or interesting to me now.
I felt old.
I took the wrong strategy to write again on my blog. Days and weeks pass and I’m still editing and rewriting three pieces. Today I remembered no Blog Police will come after me for writing something short.
Nuevo desarrollo de aplicación web adaptiva para la empresa de distribución Consuma Sur S.A.C.,
I don’t know how to be honest about this without sounding like I am complaining about progress, but I can’t pretend that something hasn’t been taken.
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¡Les presentamos la nueva web de IcaServer! Y de paso, ¡El lanzamiento oficial del Panel de Clientes 3.0!
One of the weak things in my setup is being able to work remotely on Tomcat (my desktop PC) whenever I’m away from the office. Most of the time I work over SSH, but there’s been times where I need to check something I left on my screen or briefly use a graphical application like Gnucash.
One of the first things I was taught when I worked at Conectiva Perú back in 2000 was to …
Jake Parker on Sustainable Pace writes:
You can get a TON done by working in small chunks, at a sustainable pace. That’s honestly how all of my self published books got made.
I can attest to that. Graduality is powerful.
Krita 5.3 and 6.0 was released last Tuesday. What’s with the two simultaneous versions? Krita 6.0 has upgraded to Qt6, whereas Krita 5.3 is still with Qt5. If you want stability, the recommendation is to stick with version 5.3.
The Arch Linux package wasn’t released right away, it took at most two days. I was so impatient I made a script with curl -s https…
