Monthly Shaarli
December, 2019
An introductory guide and resource for Git hooks. Learn how to use pre-commit hooks, post-commit hooks, post-receive hooks, and more. Created by Matthew Hudson, a programmer experimenting with combing Git + WebHooks + Webpipes.
Note taking is central to the work of researchers. This post provides a list of resources about the tried and true zettelkasten method often associated with German sociologist Niklas Luhmann.
The fastest wiki and knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, feature rich, markdown compatible and open source. - outline
I have been using LaTeX for a couple of years now, but not until yesterday I combined it with git after reading about this possibility. Here are...
In a package I'm developing, I had a problem around highlighting text in LaTeX and HTML output. The solution I found involved using pandoc filters to take full control over the final document. Here's a guide to writing such filters when R Markdown ain't got what you need.
input a link, convert a website to a text article; might be useful for qutebrowser
Useful Python Snippets
PDF 'Meta-Data' and Formatting Tools:
- pdftk - allows changing page order, extracting pages, combining pages (or image files) to one pdf
- jPdf - similar features to pdftk; allows adding bookmars, renumbering pages, watermarks, attachments, encryptiong, signing, etc
- ABBYY FineReader (win) - OCR and image editing
- irfanview(win)/xnview(unix) - allows batch editing the extracted image files
Annotation:
- Okular - the KDE pdf viewer, annotation works well and fast, dark mode/light mode, -needs many KDE dependencies installed
- MasterPDF Editor - small, fast, many annotation features; -previous Okular annotations don't seem to show up? (don't know if incompatible)
Search:
I’ve started using VIM a year or so ago and I’ve never looked back. It’s a very powerful and (in my opinion) efficient text editor, favoured by many programm...
A Zettelkasten setup for that works on both Windows and Linux that uses ripgrep and universal ctags. It
Update BibTeX files with info from online resources. - nschloe
One of the most interesting, however rarely commented, features of Pandoc is its support for LaTeX templates. Pandoc templates allows us to ...
Searches for approximate matches of PATTERN in each FILE or standard input. Example:
KDEConnect module for Polybar. Contribute to HackeSta
People switching to R often don't realize that RMarkdown is the feature that will most fundamentally transform how they work.
Contains link to a plugin which enables google drive / rmarkdown connection
I want to edit the metadata of a scanned PDF to assign custom page numbers to different pages. For example, what are now pages 1-3 I might want to call i, ii and iii, and what are pages 4-10, I wan...
MasterPDF Editor seems awesome, and can be customized almost to vim-like keybinds. It's free in the aur (watermark removed version)
Learning computer networking through projects and readings - aos
When most people think about drinking a cocktail, chances are they’re thinking about spending good times with friends, unwinding after a difficult day at the office, or getting started on a long night of debaucherous fun. Essentially, they’re using this sugary alcoholic drink as a means to an end: they want to develop
Best of both worlds; power and beauty of LaTeX with the simplicity of Markdown.
Fast typing Learning Resource; Guided Stories; Feedback and so on
Learn to type fast
Learn to touch type
match command-line arguments to their help text
shell, bash learning resource
stackoverflow from the terminal. Contribute to santinic
also see https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/41271/all-in-one-engine-for-texshop?noredirect=1&lq=1 for latexmk explanation
Command-line YAML and XML processor - jq wrapper for YAML