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My First Day With TypeScript

Posted on Saturday, February 6th, 2021Saturday, February 6th, 2021 by Rob Hallam

Okay, day-and-a-bit. First impressions! I’ve been coding up a dice roller for a friend’s in-development RPG, and I decided on a whim to give TypeScript a try. Here’s some early impressions of the language — both TS and JS — coming from a mainly python background. Interfaces My very first thought was “what the heck […]

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Coding Basic Modules For FoundryVTT

Posted on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021Saturday, February 6th, 2021 by Rob Hallam

Not a guide A while back I installed Foundry VTT, the web-based tabletop system developed by Atropos (It’s great, check it out). I ended up writing a small module for it, for converting walls to drawings (ie lines) so that a GM doesn’t have to duplicate effort if he’s making up a quick map on-the-fly. […]

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Quickly Coding an Animated Team Picker in pygame

Posted on Saturday, December 5th, 2020Saturday, December 5th, 2020 by Rob Hallam

Pick a team for me I’ve been known to stream on Twitch, and one of the things I do is a wee informal monthly ‘competition’ to give subscribers something to root for and cheer on. For November’s outing I wanted to assign everyone a team, which is simple enough for me to do using random.org […]

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Generating Text Captions for Shotcut

Posted on Thursday, February 6th, 2020Thursday, May 21st, 2020 by Rob Hallam

Making the video editing workload much lighter Shotcut is a Free (GPLv3) cross-platform video editor. I’ve been using it a couple of times lately to put some simple clips together (like sorting the Take 2 copyright claim GTA Online video). I figured I’d use it to take a clip of my friends and I getting […]

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Quick Hacks: A Script to Extract a Single Image/Frame From Video

Posted on Monday, April 2nd, 2018 by Rob Hallam

Long ago, I posted the simple way to get a frame of a video using ffmpeg. I’ve been using that technique for a long time. It can be a bit unwieldy for iteratively finding a specific frame, as when using a terminal you have to move the cursor to the time specification. So I wrote […]

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Quick Hacks: A script to import photos to month-based directories (like Lightroom)

Posted on Saturday, February 24th, 2018 by Rob Hallam

tl;dr: A bash script written in 15 minutes imports files as expected! I was clearing photos off an SD card so that I have space to photograph a friend’s event this evening. Back on Windows, I would let Lightroom handle imports. Darktable is my photo management software of choice, but it leaves files where they […]

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Why Won’t My GIMP Python Plug-in Show Up Under Filters?

Posted on Saturday, February 3rd, 2018 by Rob Hallam

tl;dr: Did you put it in ~/.gimp-2.8/plug-ins and set the executable bit ? It’s been a while since I developed a script to automate tasks in GIMP. I figured I would do one for the repetitive tasks for creating a custom YouTube Thumbnail (more on that later perhaps). But my script wasn’t showing up in […]

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