Tag: Programming
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Retiring My WASD V2 Keyboard
Eons ago (~2013), my spouse suggested a mechanical keyboard as a gift idea for me. It was a good idea! By then I had pivoted from freelance miscellany to a steady programming job, and having nice tools for the trade seemed appropriate. I got a switch tester, I researched, and ended up selecting a WASD…
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A GitHub Copilot AI Anecdote
I’ve been watching Three Body—the 2023 Chinese television adaptation of the same Liu Cixin science fiction novel that Netflix also put out a version of. My copy was found on the high seas shortly after the release of the series, but it’s now available on a few streaming services. I was about 20 minutes into…
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Prevent Unoconv From Exporting Hidden Sheets From Excel Documents
At work we use unoconv—a python script that serves as a nice frontend to the UNO document APIs in LibreOffice/OpenOffice—as part of our pipeline for creating preview PDFs and rasterized thumbnail images for a variety of document formats. Recently we had an issue where our thumbnail for a Excel spreadsheet document inexplicably didn’t match the…
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