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On Increasing Creative Output
This week I am juggling a number of things related to PyCon Canada, and life in general. Also I came to the realization in the past few weeks, that if I want to effectively work on long term projects like Rookeries, writing about tooling, working on my side adventure, et cetera, without burnning out I…
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Rookeries v0.14.0 Released – Tech Preview of Plugins
I’m excited to announce today’s new release of Rookeries: version 0.14.0. This release previews support for plugins! After quite a lot of experimentation, and I was able to create a tech preview of a plugin architecture. The server can now find and load frontend plugins. And the frontend plugins now extend the markdown editor, and…
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Mailing List Migrations
Hello dear reader! I hope you are having a wonderful year so far! You may have noticed a small change in the sidebar menu, where there used to be 2 sign-up forms. I removed those as there are dedicated pages to the signups now, and the sidebar was just getting quite busy. (I plan on…
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Surfacing after PyCon Canada 2018
Uff! What a weekend! For the past few weeks, I did not write any updates because I helped organize PyCon Canada 2018! And present a talk… because apparently life is not exciting enough to do one or the other… Actually these next 2 days I am coordinating the coding sprint portion of the conference which…
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Qt + QML Experiments
At the end of last year, I took a bit of a hiatus from blogging and my other projects. I found that I needed a break from my current projects, and to work on something totally unrelated. One of the things I try to do each year is to challenge myself to learn a new…
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Reflections between PyCons – PyCon US 2018 + PyCon Canada 2018
I had the opportunity to go to PyCon US this year again. And I’ve been meaning to put down my thoughts about it, but I have managed to distract myself in a million different ways. However I feel I really ought to say what I learned: PyCon US 2018 I enjoyed PyCon US this year,…
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Rookeries v0.9.0 out – New UI and Live Editing of Sites + Juggling JSON with jq Book Update
It has been quite a while since my last update. I apologize for the long silence. I wanted to focus on getting Rookeries up and running, to the degree that I can host a website. Namely I was hoping to update the Amber Penguin Software website and the Juggling JSON with jq book companion website…
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Using Blender for Cover Design
One of the fun parts of writing Juggling JSON with jq, is that I can experiment with various things. From the technical writing side, working with Sphinx has forced me to learn the ins-and-outs of that technology. Also very likely I will need to get into working with LaTeX for more of the advanced PDF…
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Getting Started with Writing a Technical ebook
The early release of my ebook Juggling JSON with jq comes out tomorrow! However this post is more about the process of writing the book itself. Getting started on an technical ebook, (such as Juggling JSON with jq), requires a bit of upfront setup. On the ebook side, I decided to go the route of…
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Book Announcement: Unjumbling JSON with jq
jq is an amazing tool for querying and manipulating JSON in command-line, that I learned about from one of my good colleagues, Eric Olsen. And I feel that jq deserves a good book describing how to use this tool. Hence I am writing a book called Unjumbling JSON with jq on the topic. As mentioned…