Posted on August 07, 2016 in ConfigPorn • 1 min read
I have been using URxvt terminal for a while, but was suffering many issues
with it recently. In particular, I had a weird locale issue, leading to
unicode encoding errors whenever I copy accentuated characters using primary
keyboard, some weird
issues due to
urxvt-tabbed and it just blew up when …
Posted on May 29, 2016 in ConfigPorn • 1 min read
i3 has a
feature
to enable going back and forth between workspaces. Once enabled, if you are on
workspace 1 and switch to workspace 2 and then just press mod+2 again to
switch to workspace 2, you will go back to workspace 1.
However, this feature is quite limited …
Posted on January 19, 2016 in OpenAccess • 2 min read
Recently, I tried to aggregate in a single place various codes I had written to handle scientific papers. Some feature I was missing, and I would like to add, was the ability to fetch automatically references from a given paper. For arXiv papers, I had a simple solution using the …
Posted on December 26, 2015 in Dev • 2 min read
I am currently working on a Velib webapp. With Élie, we modularized everything so that the backend API can be edited easily, and adapted to any other bike sharing system, hence we wanted it to be easily localizable and looked for solutions compatible with as much browsers as possible. We …
Posted on December 26, 2015 in OpenAccess • 6 min read
This article contains ideas and explanations around this code. Many references to it will be done through this article.
Disclaimer: The above code is here as a proof of concept and to back this article with some code. It is clearly not designed (nor scalable) to run in production. However …