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18  janvier     07h43
Dealing with egl bad alloc error for webkit
   I was trying out some Toga examples, and for the webview I kept getting the following error and a blank screen. Could not create EGL surfaceless context: EGL BAD ALLOC. After many hours of searching I reduced the reproducer to a simple Python Gtk code. import gi gi.require version ’Gtk’, ’ . ’ ...
27  décembre     08h19
pastewindow.nvim my first neovim plugin
   pastewindow is a neovim plugin written in Lua to help to paste text from a buffer to a different window in Neovim. This is my first attempt of writing a plugin. We can select a window in the GIF below I am using a bash terminal as target and send any text to that window. This will be helpful in...
14  décembre     11h17
Open Source talk at KTH computer science students organization
   Last Tuesday, during lunch hours I had a talk at KTH computer science students’ organization. The topic was Open Source and career. My main goal was tell the attendees that contribution size does not matter, but continuing contributing to various projects can change someone’s life and career in a...
03  décembre     20h50
Basedpyright and neovim
   Basedpyright is a fork of pyright with various type checking improvements, improved vscode support and pylance features built into the language server. It has a list of benefits over Pyright. In case you want to use that inside of neovim using Mason, you will have to remember to have the...
02  décembre     08h10
Bahnhof Bar
   A few weeks ago Bahnhof organized an evening to celebrate technology innovation freedom, and opened Bahnhof Bar only for the evening. Back in their office was raided and servers were taken, and the latest TV series, The Pirate Bay on SVT Play already showed that as part of the series. The...
29  novembre     07h35
Amnesty seminar on activism
   Weeks ago I was down with fever, but as I became better after a few days I managed to attend Amnesty International’s Stockholm chapter’s event on activism. I had to travel to a different part of Stockholm, which was fun. The day started with welcome talk and then a new Palestine Activist Group ...
02  octobre     13h33
Thank you Gnome Nautilus scripts
   As I upload photos to various services, I generally resize them as required based on portrait or landscape mode. I used to do that for all the photos in a directory and then pick which ones to use. But, I wanted to do it selectively, open the photos in Gnome Nautilus Files application and right...
30  septembre     16h16
Breaking out of algorithm
   Many of you already know about my love of photography. I am taking photos for many years, mostly people photos. Portraits in conferences like PyCon or Fedora events. I regularly post photos to wikipedia too, specially for the people accounts which does not have good quality profile photos. I...
28  septembre     07h12
Updated blog theme after many years
   One of the major reason of using static blogging for me is to less worry about how the site will look like. Instead the focus was to just write which of course I did not do well this year . I did not change my blog’s theme for many many years. But, I noticed Oskar Wickström created a monospace...
08  août     16h04
20 years of this blog
   I started writing blog years ago, not on this domain, but this blog still has all the old posts starting from th August . Though I used to write mostly one line blog posts, which is equivalent of Mastodon posts these days. I started writing another blog, but in Swedish. So that I can feel...