To use GitLab Pages, unlike GitHub Pages, there is a little work to have it up and running. GitLab Pages will serve files under the specific folder "[crayon-5ed5ea556fc3f594450974-i/]". But having…
All versions of Windows have great support for virtual disks that is not well-known. And if you have access to a Windows Pro computer, you can encrypt them and make…
Hey, after more than three years, here are new releases of my main software! It is mainly maintenance releases, merely to test my new vcpkg / visual studio 2019 installation,…
With the confinement because of COVID-19, I have been using Microsoft Teams for my work with my home setup that does not have a "mute" button to mute the mic…
The comment feature is very handy on dropbox documents, but there is no functionality to export them, and no API to use them. Fortunately, it seems it exists an undocumented /comments2/list_comments API. I made a proof of concept of this API to get the ability to exports comments. (suite…)
JSweet is a tool that can convert java to javascript. I have in 2001 written a couple of Java applets that don’t work anymore with the disappearance of java applets from browsers. I decided by curiosity to look at JSweet to convert those applets in javascript, and that was not that easy. (suite…)
I had some issue after upgrade the Redirection plugin to 4.0. Redirections were not working anymore and I was unable to add some (with ugly “something went wrong” and a 500 API error code). It turned out that was because an incompatibility of the database upgrade with the SQLite Integration plugin : the database upgrade uses many keywords unknown to SQLite (“AFTER” keyword in ALTER TABLE, “SUBSTRING_INDEX” and “LEFT” functions) (suite…)
If you want to add a new social option in the topbar of OceanWP, you may have seen the OceanWP documentation here. But it adds it at the end. You you wish to reorder the new social option, here is a little trick, by inserting the new option in the correct place in the array instead of adding it to the end. (suite…)
You may want to have in Excel some contents from the Internet. In some case, the basic functionalities of Excel / LibreOffice will be enough to get the data, but in most of the case, you will need more complex processing. So I wrote a simple script that will scrap the content with regular expression, xpath or css selector, and expose the results in a very simple API so that Excel / LibreOffice will be able to use it. (suite…)
I want a offline browseable static version of my wordpress website to be able to put it on USB or upload to a backup static location. I searched some wordpress plugins to do that and wp2static seemed very promising. But it turned out disappointing (version 6.1) because of many flaws in the crawler (many url were missed) and in the ways url are rendered as it is mainly intended to output with a full target URL (relative URLs are really not working at all). I tried a bit to patch the plugin but the code was too difficult to understand and modify. So I decided to use a tool outside wordpress, the well known httrack I used years ago. (suite…)