Written by Rob Allen
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on Jun. 23, 2022
While editing my Hosts file in BBEdit, I wondered how hard it would be to create syntax highlighting for it. A quick google later, I discovered that I needed to create a Codeless Language Module and this is my first attempt: To install, download Hosts.plist and copy to your iCloud Drive's BBEdit/Ap…
Written by Rob Allen
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on Jan. 11, 2022
Over the weekend I released rst2pdf 0.99. The list of changes is quite long as it's been over a year since the last release. There are some key things in this release that I'm particularly pleased about including Python 3.9 and 3.10 & Sphinx 4 support, multiple styles in the class directive and…
Written by Rob Allen
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on Dec. 31, 2021
2021 is over! A very strange year where I have been vaccinated against COVID-19, with an additional booster, yet I caught it and took months to recover. Fortunately, I continued to take a photo every day though my Project 365 which allows me to appreciate what happened during this year of my life.…
Written by Rob Allen
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on Nov. 17, 2021
Now that I have a TouchID enabled Mac, I want to be able use TouchID for sudo access. There's a pam module available, so it just needs enabling: Edit /etc/pam.d/sudo Add a new line under line 1 (which is a comment) containing: auth sufficient pam_tid.so(Leave all other lines in this file.) That's…
Written by Rob Allen
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on Sep. 8, 2021
When working on rst2pdf, I use pyenv as I've written about before. Recently, I've found myself needing to recreate virtualenvs for various Python versions and then recreate them to easily reset the list of packages installed into them via pip. To my my life easier, I created a script that I can run…
Written by Rob Allen
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on Aug. 18, 2021
For many years now, I've been using Matthew Weier O'Phinney's changelog_generator script to generate an easy-to-read list of changes for a given milestone. Time has moved on; the Laminas project now uses Laminas Automatic Releases and Matthew hasn't updated his script since 2013. Since PHP 8, warni…