My website is maintained by a rather complex amalgamation of software,
accreted over generations. Having migrated it from my old desktop
lickity to my new(ish) PowerBook Ariel, I now want to migrate it
again to my new server Tranq (a Tranquil PC T2); this will allow me to use cron to keep
some parts up-to-date automatically.
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I am still in the process of converting my website-maintaining scripts to work on Debian GNU/Linux rather than Mac OS X. Last episode left me with a conundrum as how to convert SVG files to PNG for the sake of browsers that cannot display SVG properly. Read more
It has taken only ten years but we now have SVG support as good as it was ten years ago using Adobe’s SVG Viewer plug-in in Netscape 4. I have decided it is about time I resurrected my 2002 project, the Alleged Tarot. Read more
As part of my new hobby to build a computer keyboard, I have to draw the instructions for the cutting of the plate the switches are held in (see previous post for more on what the plate is). Rather than learn how to install and use a CAD system to do this, I have written a Python module to do it for me. Read more