Brandon Rhodes

I may be getting too picky in my old age. Having written the slides for my #pyconlt keynote tomorrow (a) using a markup language that I invented for this particular slide deck, and (b) generated using the ‘reportlab’ PDF library with a Python script I wrote, I now — with less than 24 hours to go — have apparently decided to (c) write my own PDF viewer to present them with.

Hoping I don't find myself still awake at midnight, rewriting my editor or OS.

Apr 22, 2025 at 2:06pmPhanpy
Show threadBrandon RhodesApr 22, 2025
Turns out it takes less than an hour to write a PDF viewer, if one uses modern libraries. It works and I'll use it to power my presentation tomorrow! And, yes, it's now past midnight, and, no, I didn't rewrite the OS or my editor. So all is well.