Posts from June 2019

• The 2019 Tony Awards opening highlights everything wrong with the Broadway industry

  19 June 2019 (updated 20 June 2019) | rant musical theatre | Comment

  James Corden's opening number to the 73rd annual Tony Awards is an exhilirating visual spectacle, a love letter in song and dance to the magic of Broadway theatre. It's obviously been a lot of fun for the performers to put on, and extremely well-received by… »

• Australian Road Rules: Indicating left when exiting a roundabout

  16 June 2019 (updated 16 June 2019) | road rules | Comment

  Consider the situation in the following diagram:

  

  Car A is approaching a roundabout and wishes to exit the roundabout at the third exit.

  Question. What indicators should the driver use in this situation?

  Answer. Indicate right when entering the intersection, continue indicating right until approaching… »

• Snippet: Converting SVG with embedded CSS fonts to PDF

  13 June 2019 (updated 14 June 2019) | guide | Comment

  This is a snippet of Python code that can be used as a framework for converting SVG files with embedded CSS fonts (@font-face) to PDF, maintaining the font embedding.

  import base64
  import os
  import re
  import subprocess
  import uuid
  
  #from fontTools.ttLib import TTFont

  … »

• Just Talley & O'Connor things: Part 2

  09 June 2019 | medicine | Comment

  « Part 1

  Choice quotes from Talley and O'Connor's Clinical Examination, 8th edition.

  Chapter 6

  Leo Buerger (1879–1943), New York physician, born in Vienna, who described thromboangiitis obliterans. He was obsessed with expensive cars. (p. 113)

  John Homans (1877–1954), a professor of surgery at

  … »

• Guide: cURL in an initramfs environment (with HTTPS and DNS)

  05 June 2019 (updated 05 June 2019) | guide linux | Comment

  I recently found myself wishing to be able to remotely unlock my LUKS partitions on (re)boot. The Arch Linux wiki has some information on this, but this was not sufficient for my case, as my network assigns dynamic IP addresses, which I normally push to… »