Capitalism sucks and it is very apparent when you buy Amazon e-books. Don’t think locking books you buy down to Amazon and their eBook readers is good for authors. It is for Amazon investors and Bezos, period. Notice how easy they made if for authors to publish on their platform…
Show HEIC thumbnails in Gnome Files
This is all that is needed to get Apple HEIC image thumbnails in the Gnome file manager. I am currently running Ubuntu 23.04 but this should be similar in most distros using their package managers. It’s so easy a caveman could do it… sudo apt update sudo apt install libheif1…
AutoStart Maestral Dropbox Client In Python Virtual Environment
Update May 1st, 2024: Maestral is now available via pipx. Pipx is similar to virtual environments and simplifies things. First thing, open the terminal and run each command as listed. # = comment… Install pipx: sudo apt install pipx # I am running Ubuntu 24.04 currently. Alter for your system.pipx…
Creating a simple radial percent gauge in Flet
I was cleaning up and found some old gauges I had built years ago. I created the images in Inkscape and likely deleted the Flash and JavaScript code. Anyway, since I am really digging working with Flet I thought it might be cool to re-purpose the images and create a…
Calendar Class In Flet And Python
A simple Calendar class for flet. I needed a calendar so I made one. I hope someone finds it useful.
Tags Example in Flet and Python
Just a quick example of how to create, add and remove hashtags in a Flet app. I needed to create this for an app I am working on and thought I’d share.
Flet Color Picker Dialog Class
I am working on a project and decided on Flet for the interface. Flet does not include a color picker dialog. Here is what I came up with, a simple Python class. I hope it’s can be useful for others. What the hell is Flet? “Flet enables developers to easily…
Install NovelWriter in an isolated Environment with Pipx
novelWriter is a Python GUI program used for authoring novels and short stories. Pipx will isolate all the various libraries and source code without the need to create a virtual environment or simply installing in the system’s Python environment. For this how-to I will be installing on Fedora 37 but…
Create an Apache, PHP, PostgreSQL DEV Container with Podman
I wanted to learn and create a web development container to play around in that will save me from installing all these tools locally on my day to day laptop. I have been messing around with Podman and I really like it. If you want to set this up as…
Containerize Calibre To Serve Up Your Books Using Podman.
That’s a mouthful. Anyway, I got bored last night and since I haven’t messed with Docker and such I decided what the hell. Well, Docker looked like it wanted my to create an account and maybe buy things later so I decided to play with Podman instead. Took me about…
