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Pelican is the static site generator that I use for my website. This allows me to write my website posts in almost plain text (actually a light-weight markup language named reStructuredText), which are then translated into HTML. As someone who has written his webpages in HTML by hand, I can …
At work I needed a suitable way to check the calibration of gelcoat spray equipment. Gelcoat requires an initiator (often called “catalyst”) in the form of a peroxide to cure. The peroxide/gelcoat ratio is important, so it is checked regularly by spraying the separate components into suitable containers and …
PostScript (in the form of ghostscript) was for me the first way to generate vector graphics outside of a CAD program. I have several hundreds of figures written in PostScript for inclusion in e.g. LaTeX document.
Later I’ve started using other programs like metapost and asymptote. But in …
Today I updated my TeXLive install to 2018. Although the install went fine, there was a problem with the binaries.
Both asymptote and xetex were linked to different versions of some libraries than those that are supplied by ports. So I had to rebuild them.
Some might wonder why …
In this article I will try to document how to with with the FT232H using Python on FreeBSD. I will be using the Adafruit FT232H breakout board.
Note that since I’m using FreeBSD, the library provided by FTDI doesn’t work. However, the library provided by Adafruit was written …
This article details how I used the Plantower PMS5003 particulate matter (“PM”) sensor on a PC or laptop, using an FT232H breakout board to make the connection.
My reasons for buying this device are so that I can measure airborne particulate matter at home and at work. So I …
In this article we will look into the best way to store time-based data and use it with gnuplot.
The first thing to realize is that we should specify a timezone when specifying dates and times (“datetimes”). To prevent calculations, I tend to use datetimes in UTC.
Next …
Cut facebook out of your life altogether.
For me, the first step is easy: I don’t use facebook, and never have. :-)
Here is a guide to delete your facebook account properly.
Serveral useful recipes for manipulation video with ffmpeg.
Note that a name within angle brancket (like <this>) represents a generic input or output file.
The following recipe extracts the audio from a video file and converts it to WAV format.
ffmpeg -y -hide_banner -i <input> -vn -c …We can use PostScript’s Endpage procedure to e.g. add a signature to each page of a PDF file, using only ghostscript.
In contrast to the earlier article using TeX, this method is suitable for a small annotation that is identical for every page.
This definition of EndPage will …