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 The latest version, v0.11.0, of the mkdocs-alias-plugin is now available here . This new version adds the ability to use interwiki-style links, using the following syntax: 
 [[w:Hypertext]]
 or
 [[w:Hypertext|The Article on Hypertext]]
 or
 [[w:Hypertext#History|The History of Hypertext]]
 The prefix ( w: in the example) can be configured through the plugin’s…

 Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer; this is not legal analysis, nor legal advice, just an opinion. 
 Mark Pilgrim, the original creator of chardet recently opened a GitHub issue on the project after he found that the project he started was relicensed under the MIT license from the original LGPL, a process generally referred to as license laundering . The current maintainer, Dan Blanchard,…

 The latest version of the mkdocs-live-edit-plugin, v0.4.0, is now available here on PyPI! 
 Changes : 
 
 Feature: support for custom documentation file directories through the new option user_docs_dir 
 Bug fix: fix for a TypeError in the plugin config 
 
 Furthermore, this latest version enables the usage of the mkdocs-live-wysiwyg-plugin , which, as its name…

 Image Credit: “Justice isn’t blind, she carries a big stick” by Jason Rosenberg on Flickr 
 Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer; this is not legal analysis, nor legal advice, just an opinion. 
 The way too short and ambiguous California bill AB-1043 seems to have the potential to do real damage to the software industry. It aims to consolidate age-verification at the…

 In a recent experimental 2D gamedev project, I wanted to play around with drawing a bunch of game entities purely algorithmically rather than creating sprites for each of them. One important technique I ended up using was Signed Distance Fields (SDFs). In this post, I’ll go over the most basic implementation (we’ll draw a circle!) and explain how and why it works.

 In December of 2023, due to carpal tunnel, I switched from my Happy Hacking Keyboard setup to a Kinesis Advantage 360. It’s been two years and change, and I haven’t looked back. Well, kind of.

 The latest version, v0.10.0, of the mkdocs-alias-plugin is now available here . This new version adds the ability to use aliases in Markdown footnotes, a great way to keep links short and organized. 
 mkdocs-alias-plugin is an MkDocs plugin allowing links to your pages using a custom alias such as [[my-alias]] or [[my-alias|My Title]] .
In a New Year’s resolution-driven attempt to un-Microsoft-ify my life , I’m moving all of my repositories over from GitHub (owned by Microsoft) to sourcehut (owned by some dude ). This blog was the first repo to make the switch and was previously hosted via GitHub Pages, and now uses sourcehut pages instead. Here’s the config I created to make the CI-driven deployment work:

 This year I read a surprising (to me) amount of books: 21 according to my notes, 6 more than last year. Here they are, listed chronologically in reading order. I’ll also list my favorite reads towards the end of the post.

 I’ve been putting my work online in various formats for almost 20 years now. For most of that time, I’ve used extremely permissive licenses such as the MIT License to distribute my work in an attempt to promote usage and adoption. Now that I’m quite a bit older and experienced (you may say curmudgeony), let me tell you why I’m changing my tune and am adopting a…