I love how much cognitive dissonance I cause when I talk about my household (me and my fiance) and how we've basically chucked out gender roles. We do things based on proficiency, and it so happens that I'm more proficient than him at the traditionally "masculine" tasks/responsibilities, and him with more traditionally "feminine" tasks. I've had coworkers and family absolutely gobsmacked by this. But it works for us. Gender roles who?

#GenderRoles #BreakTheMold #IfItWorksItWorks

I want to write a program to extract a list of clickable links from a PDF page.

#pypdf can list the link positions/sizes and target URLs. But in a PDF document, links are annotations, which are separate data from the document text.

To get the display text of a clickable link in a PDF, is the easiest way to convert the full page to PNG, crop it to the link's bounding box, and run that through OCR? Or am I missing something more reasonable?

#programming #python #IfItWorksItWorks

OS Recovery on a dell PC being given away (after the proper wiping and #datenshutz precautions) using the latest tools, but I love it when an old school graphic asset survives so long #ifitworksitworks #retrocomputing #sundayfunday
…sure the unit test failed, but I’m going to call this production ready ;> #ifitworksitworks #code

It can sometimes be difficult to resist shiny new tech.

Example, WordPress + Advanced Custom Fields, enable building custom web pages very quickly. The same way I was doing it when I got my first dev. job around 10 years ago.

I tried out alternatives: but missing features, buggy beta releases and learning fatigue are a thing.

#ifitworksitworks #wordpress