The PyCon sessions wound down today, so I’m finally coming up for air. This year I presented Effective Django, which evolved out of last year’s PyCon presentation and my PyOhio 2012 talk. As I prepared my PyCon talk last year, I started building Hieroglyph, which makes it easy ...
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flymake with Sphinx
Working on my PyCon tutorial (next week!), I’ve been spending a lot of time in Emacs editing reStructured Text documents. I use Sphinx and Hieroglyph to generate the HTML, the slides, and the PDF from a single source, which make it easy for me to keep everything in sync ...
read moreHieroglyph Improvements
If you’re using Hieroglyph for generating slides with Sphinx, you may want to use the version in git rather than the release. A few things have landed there recently:
tjadevries contributed fixes for incremental slides in Chrome.
It seems that a recent change in Chrome caused the incremental slide ...
New Work: Untitled (Bay Bridge)
“Untitled (Bay Bridge)”, copyright 2013, Nathan Yergler
8” x 10” four plate linocut print, printed on Rives BFK
Shortly after I finished “Golden Gate” last year I decided I needed to do a companion piece depicting the other bridge in San Francisco. I pulled the first prints of the new ...
read more“Golden Gate”, Linocut Print with Watercolor
“Golden Gate”, copyright 2013, Nathan Yergler
8” x 10” linocut print with watercolor, printed on Rives BFK
In the process of working on Golden Gate last year, I printed the black plate on its own a few times. I’ve been experimenting with watercolors recently, and this is my latest ...
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New Work: Days Getting Shorter
“Days Getting Shorter”, copyright 2013, Nathan Yergler
8” x 10” Two Plate Linocut, printed on Rives BFK
This was a fun piece to work on. It’s based on this photo (used with permission, albeit after the fact), which I’ve been staring at off and on for months. The ...
read moreBytes, Characters, Codecs, and Strings
One of the persistent areas of confusion for many Python developers is Unicode strings, byte strings, and how they interact. While Python 3 should help ease some of that pain, many places (including Eventbrite) are still running on Python 2. The problem is made worse by the fact that modern ...
read moreHieroglyph 0.5
During the last week of 2012 I pushed out a new release of Hieroglyph. I realized later that I haven’t really been talking about it here, so I wanted to mention some of the new features and functionality I’ve been working on. When I published the 0.3 ...
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