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Programming and creativityI need a category for a blog-entry. It is about programming, but as I am beginning to fall foul of technology, have to append something useful to the title.
The flnews newsreader is sufficient for Usenet-access, i.e. to receive and read articles from -, as well as to write and post articles to newsgroups.
When you compare news-clients, you will always notice the differences and choose the software that you prefer. Flnews however, has the charm that you can
Posted 06-09-2022 at 02:41 PM byMichael Uplawski Updated 12-16-2022 at 01:16 AM byMichael Uplawski(Code examples updated, comments are better, too.)
In an attempt to render Hyperlinks in SVG more comfortable, I had begun to enlarge the mouse-sensitive area around a linked content by creating a transparent rectangle around the link.
In the meantime, other techniques are swifter applied and probably easier used in a scripted routine.
This is historical, now. For your inspiration, the original blog-post:
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The logic of ARGV and ARGF still escapes me, I am approaching perfection empirically by trial, error and surrender. Now I believe to do stuff the right way, which is highly unsatisfactory.
Today's sura goes like this:
To avoid a hanging program, when there are no data waiting at STDIN, thou shalt write
Code:
if !STDIN.tty?
# do as you must
end
tty meaning “teletype-writer”, it stands for terminal/console/pseudo-terminal and the like....
Posted 02-13-2021 at 05:28 AM byMichael Uplawski Updated 12-30-2022 at 04:43 PM byMichael Uplawski(Updates and a comprehensive Howto in English (manuscript))
My hand-writing suffers from not doing any. For some years already I try to compensate by forcing me to use a fountain pen, whenever possible. I even try to find new occasions to use it. The fountain pen obliges me to concentrate and to obey. My texts...
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