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Displaying An Image or Animated GIF in Qt With Aspect Ratio-Preserving Scaling

When it comes to me and organizing images, GQView (now Geeqie) has always been a “best of a bunch of bad options” sort of thing and, with my move off Kubuntu 14.04 LTS, it’s become downright unusable in some cases. … Continue reading

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How to Keep Humans From Seeing Your reCAPTCHA

I don’t know how many people know this, but reCAPTCHA is a major pain if you’ve configured your browser to prevent Google from doing things like setting tracking cookies or fingerprinting your <canvas>. Sometimes, it’ll take me a minute or … Continue reading

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Getting Over It With Bennet Foddy: A Somewhat Belated Commentary

Yes, I’m sure that anyone who cares has probably already seen a million rage reaction compilations on YouTube, but this isn’t about that. Rather, it’s about how different my experience has been so far, since I decided to try the … Continue reading

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Game – Lumo

I just finished playing Lumo, so I supposed I might as well review it. When I was a kid, these were always the kinds of games I was curious about but never had (aside from Mario RPG), so I can … Continue reading

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GUI Error Handler for PyQt 5.x

When I was developing programs with PyGTK, one of my favourite little things to include to make life better for users was a drop-in helper named gtkexcepthook.py which adds a GUI traceback handler for uncaught exceptions. Well, I finally got … Continue reading

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GIMP Plugin to Automate Setting up to Colorize Manga Pages

I’ve been making a push lately to try to get things cleaned up around here, and I came across an old GIMP plugin I slapped together when I decided to try my hand at colorizing manga pages. The approach you … Continue reading

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Fanfiction – Harry Potter and The Iron Lady

For today’s fic, a little something I found because someone else thought I already knew it. Thanks a bunch, Aura Of The Dawn. Harry Potter and The Iron Lady by mugglesftw This is a story that had such potential for … Continue reading

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