Posts from May 2025

• A modern theme for cgit

  16 May 2025 | git linux c python | Comment

  cgit is a lightweight web frontend for git repositories. As opposed to modern git forges such as GitLab, Gitea and Forgejo, cgit provides view-only access, and does not have attached bells and whistles such as issue tracking or pull requests. This allows cgit to be… »

• htmlcc: Statically compiled HTML templates for C

  15 May 2025 | c html python | Comment

  This article presents htmlcc, an HTML templating engine for C utilising static compilation.

  Motivation

  Web applications are not commonly written in C; one notable counterexample is cgit, a web frontend for git repositories. HTML output in cgit is implemented from scratch, using bespoke… »

• Foreground segmentation with JBIG2 for improved PDF compression: pdf-segmented

  09 May 2025 | graphics linux python pdf | Comment

  Motivation

  JBIG2 is an efficient image compression format for bi-level (bi-tonal) images, which is supported by the PDF file format and common PDF viewers. To date, tooling for producing documents using JBIG2 (particularly open source tooling) has been limited; I have previously presented file-jbig2pdf,… »