dhobern (@dhobern@scicomm.xyz)
Why is #JavaScript so popular? I hate everything about it.
I'm speaking at the #Canberra Field #Naturalists meeting at #ANU next month on #Malaise trapping and the #insects and other #invertebrates that surround us without our noticing them.
I expect most of my slides to be arrays of four or six #microscope images with a header (probably a family name in most cases) and captions for each image.
I don't want to lay out all these images in #LibreOffice (or any similar presentation tool) because I'm a perfectionist and getting it all tidy will take forever.
So, I decided to try out #Slidev, #Marp and other #Markdown-based presentation tools. The Markdown part is very appealing, but they all lean hard into JavaScript. That would be fine so long as I don't have to think about that side of things.
Slidev's AppleBasic theme seemed to be the best starting point, so I started hacking it to add som extra gridded image views. Plain image grids were not too challenging, but I really want captions for each image, so I started trying to understand how the templates use the forest of underlying JS libraries and CSS artefacts to produce the displayed slides.
Frankly, the whole thing is so opaque and would take me much longer to understand than preparing multiple presentations by hand would.
Then I realised I can use #montage on the command line to produce the kind of layouts I want, and I can script #exiftool to extract and prepare the captions which will save time.
So, my new plan is to write a #Python script that processes a #YAML file listing all the slides, titles and image paths. It can generate PNG images that are close to the target 1920*1080 size (give or take a little). I'll then use LibreOffice for a couple of more text-oriented or irregular slides, export those and combine all the images into a PDF.
I'm sure this will be way faster than battling Node.js. Not sure why I felt I had to write it up.
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qiita (@qiita@rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com)
OpenDeepResearchに学ぶDeepResearchの設計思想と実務適用のポイント
https://qiita.com/jw-automation/items/5af853dc315be0daa7b0?utm_campaign=popular_items&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=popular_items
#qiita #Python #LangChain #LLM #AIエージェント #DeepResearch
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bobthetraveler (@bobthetraveler@mastodon.world)
Here's how to automatically post to Mastodon: https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/python-social-media-automation/?s=mb #OpenSource #Python #TwitterMigration
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qiita (@qiita@rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com)
AI駆動開発時代にこそ『リーダブルコード』が効く理由：Python実例で再確認する
https://qiita.com/nogataka/items/948a8abc0e7576a28f34?utm_campaign=popular_items&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=popular_items
#qiita #Python #リーダブルコード #Python3 #コーディング #コードレビュー
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TeddyTheBest (@TeddyTheBest@framapiaf.org)
243 lignes de code suffisent pour créer un modèle d’intelligence artificielle. Le 11 février 2026, Andrej Karpathy a affirmé sur X avoir recréé un modèle #GPT en seulement 243 lignes de #Python. Une expérience pédagogique qui démonte pièce par pièce la mécanique des intelligences artificielles modernes.
https://www.numerama.com/tech/2179121-243-lignes-de-code-suffisent-pour-creer-un-modele-dintelligence-artificielle.html
#ia #ai
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247CodeGirl (@247CodeGirl@mastodon.social)
Season 1 Lesson 1 Part 8 - Your First Steps - Python Comments - Making Your Code Clear #pythonprogramming #dataengineer #dataanalysis #learncoding #softwaredeveloper #python #pythoncode #codingtutorial
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ellie (@ellie@ellieayla.net)
Everything https://astral.sh/ makes is so flippin' fast. And has fantastic UX. Utterly bonkers.
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kantel (@kantel@mastodon.social)
Zum Valentinstag: Herzliche Grüße von Proceso
ch bin ja meistens zu spät dran, denn immer, wenn ich einen feiertagsbezogenen Beitrag veröffentlichen will, ist der Feiertag schon vorbei. Aber dieses Jahr pünktlich zu Valentin spülten zwei P5.js-Tutorials von Patt Vira in meinen Feedreader, und da dachte ich mir, bevor ich wieder die verdammten Herzchen vergesse, kann ich ja auch mal etwas mit ihnen programmieren. https://kantel.github.io/posts/2026021401_valentins_sketch/ #Python #Proceso #CreativeCoding
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aiandemily (@aiandemily@mastodon.social)
【衝撃】コードは書くな！Google AI Studioに"命令"しろ！知識ゼロからの自動化ツール開発【文系でも分かる】
#バッチファイル #スクリプト作成 #作業効率化 #デバッグ方法 #SRT字幕 #句読点除去 #初心者 #Mac #プログラミング #.command #Python #AIプログラミング #AI活用 #時短術 #業務改善 #コード生成 #googleaistudio #自動化ツール #作り方 #エラー解決 #プログラムコ...
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villares (@villares@pynews.com.br)
Find the sketch-a-day archives and tip jar at: https://abav.lugaralgum.com/sketch-a-day
Code for this sketch at: https://github.com/villares/sketch-a-day/tree/main/2026/sketch_2026_02_13 #Processing #Python #py5 #CreativeCoding
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thomas_sandmann (@thomas_sandmann@genomic.social)
Just finished watching @rich_i 's great workshop about hist {pointblank} R package / python module, presented at @rinpharma 2025. Highly recommended if you deal with tabular data and need validation or beautiful summary HTML tables: https://youtu.be/abvgK9VU7z0 #RStats #python #DataValidation
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jobsfordevelopers (@jobsfordevelopers@mastodon.world)
Appian is hiring Technology Strategy Engineer (Dec 2025 Grads)
🔧 #java #javascript #python #react #css
🌎 McLean, Virginia
⏰ Full-time
🏢 Appian
Job details https://jobsfordevelopers.com/jobs/technology-strategy-engineer-dec-2025-grads-at-appian-com-aug-29-2025-1d1e42?utm_source=mastodon.world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=posting
#jobalert #jobsearch #hiring
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