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A small Python library that turns plain data into Word documents with a strict Vignelli-style grid, black-and-white charts and zero color, so every reference sheet I print looks like it came from the same shop.
Thread: The design notebook ↗Get a word count for every chapter file and the whole manuscript, from Markdown, plain text or .docx, with a running total and a progress bar toward your target.
Thread: Tools for the writing desk ↗What I set up before writing a line of theme or plugin code: a local copy, the debug switches, WP-CLI's scaffolding and a profiler. Condensed from a very long page of old notes.
Thread: The WordPress toolbox ↗How to put a lightweight XFCE desktop on a machine that started life as Ubuntu Server, which package to pick, how to make it boot to the desktop, and how to give it a dark theme from the command line.
A small Python script that stitches Markdown chapters into a single clean HTML book with a title page, linked contents, chapter breaks, curly quotes and proper scene breaks.
Thread: Tools for the writing desk ↗Two Roku tricks that often get lumped together: developer mode for sideloading your own channel, and Roku Media Player for watching files off a USB drive. How each one works, and which one you actually need.
ICON is my open-source Python tool that scans your desktop shortcuts, finds square artwork for them on SteamGridDB, and replaces the icons, with a backup you can restore from.
Thread: Games and gear ↗Install Bun if it's missing, install the open-source Grok CLI globally, and save your xAI API key as a user environment variable from a hidden prompt instead of a line in a script.
Thread: PowerShell craft ↗A Python desktop app that converts PDF, CBR, CBZ and CB7 comics into smaller WebP-based CBZ files and can combine single issues into trade paperback volumes.
Thread: Archive conversion workshop ↗The folder layout, the one config file, and the handful of checks I want in a Python project before the first real line of code. Plus where my notes had fallen behind the tools.
Thread: Dev habits for a team of one ↗A cassette-futurism new tab page for Edge and Chrome, with link groups, live search, weather and a starfield, packaged as a Manifest V3 extension.
Thread: Desktop tinkering ↗A small Python scraper that pulls eBay auction listings for a set of search terms and turns them into an HTML report, useful for personal price research before you buy or sell.
Thread: Desktop tinkering ↗A summary box, an "In this note" list, labelled callouts and a "Linked from" section, all built with a handful of Eleventy filters and some honest string matching.
Thread: Building this notebook ↗Deckport is my open-source Python tool that registers portable native Linux games as Steam Deck non-Steam shortcuts, with artwork, so they show up in Game Mode ready to play.
Thread: Games and gear ↗Six folders, four capital letters each, one tidy row. How I keep my browser bookmarks from turning into a junk drawer.
Thread: Games and gear ↗My everyday laptop is a ThinkPad T14 Gen 3 running Linux Mint. Why that pairing, how Dropbox fits in, and the few things worth setting up on day one.
Thread: Games and gear ↗Use PowerShell's own parser to catch typos and broken brackets in a whole folder of scripts, before anything runs.
Thread: PowerShell craft ↗The parts list for the perfectly ordinary PC behind my mod posts, so you know what "it runs fine for me" actually means.
Thread: Games and gear ↗A width check that works in a real console, in VS Code, and in scheduled tasks and CI runners where there's no window to measure.
Thread: PowerShell craft ↗