Blog: #software

• Hillel Wayne’s series on whether software engineering is really engineering — loved this; it’s something I’ve thought about often, and I love reading about other engineering fields
• Hillel Wayne again, on the real history behind Vim’s use of hjkl — the history of computing is endlessly fascinating to me
• Melanie Richards on sticky CSS Grid items — good writeup
• Peter Voth’s art — delicious, and by the way I hope at some point to start doing this kind of art
• Jeremy Mikkola on writing readable code — some good ideas here

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• Kailash Nadh on the making of an open source Kannada dictionary — loved this
• TypeLit.io — typing practice with classic lit
• Ink & Switch on local-first software — lots of food for thought here
• AIDungeon — I didn’t realize a BYU grad had done this, but it’s impressive and I can’t wait to see where this kind of tech leads in another five to ten years
• YouTube keyboard shortcuts — I wish I’d known about these years ago (j has been handy lately when watching tutorial videos)

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Scanbook is a Python script I wrote to take page image scans and turn them into a nice black-and-white PDF for reading on my phone. I used to use Scanner Pro for this, but I’d rather do the processing on my laptop, and Scanbook happens to produce smaller PDFs. I’ve used it to scan a dozen or so of my journals; it works well enough for me.

This is, by the way, my first time publishing anything on PyPI. (Which means people can install Scanbook with a simple pip install scanbook.)

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