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Here is a quick guide I pulled together this morning that explains how I use Pandoc to make really simple form fillable PDFs.

Nothing gorgeous, but a useful trick if you are ever in a pinch and need a fillable PDF fast.

I haven’t done a link log in ages. Here is a miniature one for you!

• More Parseable Output, Please., Collin Donnell putting people over computers. Yes please!
• Smoked Carrot Lox, to go with all the bagels I’ve been baking lately
• Forth
  • gforth’s manual
  • forth v lisp
  • a whole heap of resources on forth
  • factor tutorial
  • …I’m pretty excited about forth, and other Concatenative programming languages these days
• Elevators Changed Cities. Will Coronavirus Change Elevators?
• Voice driven development, an interesting tech demo from Emily Shea on how she writes software with her voice instead of typing
• Getting started with Mini vMac, an introduction to retro mac computing without needing to buy a whole heap of ancient hardware! Emulation station, choo choo!
• For 32 Years, This Japanese Chef Has Been Making a Painting of Every Single Meal He Eats. See His Mouth-Watering Work Here, I am fascinated by long running projects like this. Projects that toe the line by being somewhere between a meditative practice and a compulsion
• Make a PDF looked like a scanned doc using ImageMagick, Piper Haywood’s neat trick to make a PDF look like it has been scanned to appease the monster of bureaucracy

A few years ago Tova digitized a collection of poems that her great grandfather wrote. She then got the scans printed and bound as a gift for her mother. This evening, at my mother-in-law’s request, I made a little website of those poems. It was a fun project I was able to tackle in about an hour.

First I uploaded the PDF to archive.org and Google Drive, then I used pdf2htmlEX to convert the PDF into a webpage. I then threw together a little wrapper webpage to make pdf2htmlEX’s output a tiny bit prettier, and published the whole kit-and-caboodle using surge.sh.