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1. Using a Sony PRS-T2N e-reader with FreeBSD

   This article describes how to mount and transfer files to a Sony PRS-T2N.

2. Checking links with linklint

   This website contains lots of external links. A fact of life is that hyperlinks are subject to change, so they need checking every now and then.

   In this how-to article I’ll cover how I did that for this website.

3. Computer control, mature nor secure?

   Computer control of machinery has several problems;

   • immature
   • bad user interface
   • insecure

4. SHA256 in pure Python

   This is a python implementation of the SHA256 command-line program, for operating systems that lack it.

5. img4latex

   This script “image for LaTeX” is meant for generating LaTeX figure environments of pictures.

6. Modifying pelican

   By default, the pelican blog generator that I use creates a random tag cloud. I wanted one that was alphabetically sorted. So I modified the source code.

7. Making a subset of a git repository

   Since I am in the process of making most of my programs available on github, I have been re-shuffling the some git repositories. Especially my collection of scripts (small programs for different purposes). Because some of those scripts are private, I don’t want to publish that repository as a whole.

8. Moving scripts to a private repo

   Some of the scripts in my scripts directory are private because they contain personally identifying or security relevant information, or are just not useful for others without modifications. So I decided not to publish it on github as-is, but to make a private repo for scripts that are not for general use.

9. Writing the README first

   Today I watched Kenneth Reitz’s python for humans video. His statement that “API is all that matters” resonated with me because I sometimes struggle with that.

   Then he mentioned that you should write the README first, before writing any code. This is something that I do sometimes, but not always thoroughly. So I decided to use this as an experiment to refactor my beammech module.

10. Managing configuration files with ‘deploy’

    The deploy script is a program for managing configuration files. This script grew out of my need for a multi-functional installer for configuration files. I tend to keep those files in a separate git repository rather than changing my $HOME into a git repository.