A basic molecule viewer written in Python, using curses; Thus, meant for linux terminals. This is an alpha version, featuring: Opening default cartesian .xyz files Displaying one-letter atom labels Orthographic view Navigation Zoom, Rotation, Auto-Rotation Bond detection and display Read more…
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Microsoft Flight Simulator’s cloud debut comes with upsides for devs
Microsoft is announcing the debut of Asobo Studios’ Microsoft Flight Simulator on Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Cloud Gaming–an announcement that wouldn’t normally catch our eye but for one additional fact. In addition to launching the game on its subscription platform, Microsoft is debuting a series of new APIs for game developers working on gamesContinue reading “Microsoft Flight Simulator’s cloud debut comes with upsides for devs”
CPython, C standards, and IEEE 754
Perhaps February was “compiler modernization” month. The Linux kernel recently decided to move to the C11 standard for its code; Python has just undergone a similar process for determining which flavor of C to use for building its CPython reference implementation. A calculation in the CPython interpreter went awry when built with a pre-release versionContinue reading “CPython, C standards, and IEEE 754”
Aldus PageMaker (version 4.2)
Aldus PageMaker was professional page layout software, or professional publishing program or more commonly a Desktop Publishing (DTP) software developed by Aldus Corporation for Apple Macintosh. The first version of PageMaker was released in July 1985. It was the first ever commercial desktop publishing application. Read more…
Tabula: Convert PDF Table to CSV
Tabula is a tool for liberating data tables locked inside PDF files. Read more…
Project Oberon
Project Oberon is a design for a complete desktop computer system from scratch. Its simplicity and clarity enables a single person to know and implement the whole system, while still providing enough power to make it useful and usable in a production environment. This website contains information and resources for exploring and using the system.Continue reading “Project Oberon”
Ink/Stitch
An open-source machine embroidery design platform based on Inkscape. Ink/Stitch aims to be a full-fledged, cross-platform embroidery digitizing platform based entirely on free, open-source software. Our goal is to be approachable for hobbyists while also providing the power needed by professional digitizers. Read more…
PanWriter: Distraction-free writing environment
Available on macOS, Windows and Linux. Focus on the content of your text. No fiddling around in menus or getting distracted by buttons. No selecting fonts and layouting before your text is actually written. Instead, you can write text in Markdown – a convention on how to write plain text files. Basically, it’s like youContinue reading “PanWriter: Distraction-free writing environment”
PyLucid : Calculating Dimensionalities with Yaghi Code
When Lucid first came out decades ago it was a very primitive language. It had only program variables and built-in operators and functions, like next or fby. Users could not define their own functions (or “subroutines” as they were often called). Yaghi code would change all that. Read more…
A Wordle style game for the command line (Spanish and English)
This is a word game inspired by the original Wordle to run in the command line. It can be played in english or in spanish. Read more…
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