Inspired by this article, I’ve decided to create a new clock for my living room. I built it on top of newest Rasperry Pi model 3B+ with its official 7″ display, so some things are a bit different than those explained in that article and the pages it links to. The full code is available …
Category: Software
Make status colors more prominent in MantisBT 2.0
Once upon a time, MantisBT used to create a colorful table with all your issues, using the status color as a background for the whole row. Since version 2.0, the status color has been moved to a small box in the status column, making it harder to spot the info you’re looking for at a …
SSHShield
I’ve started moving some (very!) old projects to GitHub. This one deserves a mention since it’s still useful: SSHDShield is a daemon that monitors your sshd log looking for signs of a brute force attack and reacts to them. When I created this small tool, back in 2005, I needed something to protect SSH servers …
Quick Sprites: CSS sprites, the easy way
The use of CSS sprites is a valuable techique for any web developer who wishes to optimize his web site, making it both faster for users and better ranked by search engines. However, it usually involves more work to pack the images in a single sprite sheet and to update them when the site evolves. …
Scraping App Store reviews, page after page…
Someone pointed out that my little scraping script was fetching only some of the reviews of his app. Indeed, it was only considering the first “page” of results. So, I’ve just updated it to grab ’em all. The new version is available at the same address: here. By the way, the script was born to …