Category: Tech

  • Custom sort order in music libraries: macOS and Android

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    Custom sort order in music libraries is a rather rare need. Most major languages use phonograms in their scripts, where the natural sort order is more or less identical to what is seen in Unicode (probably after some normalizations). On the other hand, languages using logograms (logosyllabic scripts, mainly Chinese characters in our context) does…

  • Write to Repeater Fields of Ultimate Fields with WordPress REST API

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    Ultimate Fields is a WordPress plugin that add custom fields to existing post types, both built-in and custom. It’s the only free plugin I found that can add a repeating field (field with arbitrary number of items. However, this plugin has not been updated for almost a year, and there’s a bug where repeater fields…

  • Translate README files in reStructuredText with Sphinx

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    reStructuredText (reST) is a markup language that is popular in the Python developers community. reST is the standard markup language for docutils, Sphinx documentation generator, and the Python Package Index (PyPI). However, reST by now is still not popular enough. Most translation platforms, including Crowdin which I’m using now for EH Forwarder Bot, have no…

  • Splitting a Large Class and Multiple Inheritance in Python

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    When I started refactoring EFB Telegram Master Channel (ETM) for 2.0 updates, I was investigating ways to organize code into different files in a decent manner. In this article I’d like to talk about the strategy I used, comparing to another codebase I was reading back then, itchat.

  • RWG: an Experiment on Semi-Automated AI (?) Agent for Genkai Shiritori Mobile

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    Few days ago, a new game, Genkai Shiritori Mobile (GSM), was released by Baton Co., Ltd. and a web media and YouTubers team QuizKnock. Shiritori is a traditional Japanese word game where each player says a new word that starts with the last letter (or rather kana) of the previous word. Genkai Shiritori is a…

  • What’s so new in EH Forwarder Bot 2 (and its modules)

    What’s so new in EH Forwarder Bot 2 (and its modules)

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    EH Forwarder Bot is an extensible chat tunneling framework that allow users to send and receive messages from multiple IM platforms at one stop, and ultimately manage their accounts remotely.

  • Obfuscate PDF Text: Scramble Copied Text with Crafted CMap

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    Notice This does not prevent your PDF from being copied. OCR nowadays is pretty advanced. Backup your document before you do anything. The author does not encourage plagiarism in any form.

  • Idea: Group Chat Tunneling (Sync) with EH Forwarder Bot

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    EH Forwarder Bot (EFB) is an extensible chat tunneling framework written in Python 3. GitHub. EFB is mainly designed for gathering messages from many other platforms to the one platform, but also designed with other types of tunneling in mind. In this article, I’d like to introduce how EFB works now, and how to design…

  • The Making of: Lyricova Screensaver v2

    The Making of: Lyricova Screensaver v2

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    It has been long since last time I post here. This time I’d like to share about how I made the Lyricova Screensaver v2: refractor from my own legacy code.