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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/06
I’m anxious to see how some 2.5 years after the introduction, Stable Diffusion has evolved.
By then, you could run it either on-line at for instance [Wayback/Archive] Stable Diffusion – a Hugging Face Space by stabilityai:
Stable Diffusion DemoStable Diffusion is a state of the art text-to-image model that generates images from text.
or run it yourself if your GPU was powerful enough by using the base repository [Wayback/Archive] CompVis/stable-diffusion or one of the many forks: [Wayback/Archive] Forks · CompVis/stable-diffusion (back then some 1.4k!)
The original announcement was [Wayback/Archive] Stable Diffusion Public Release — Stability.Ai.
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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Development, Python, Scripting, Software Development | Tagged: stablediffusion | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/03
Over the years, WordPress started to beautify more and more text thereby malforming many (read thousands) of my older blog posts.
An example is this:
--jeroen
is now rendered as
–jeroen
The two hypen-minus signs or -- have become a en-dash or –, not even an em-dash or — that is is double the width of an en-dash.
So after figuring out the cause, I asked if one could change it for a WordPress.com blog backed by a premium account: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Hi @wordpressdotcom, how do I globally disable wptexturize for a paid wiert.wordpress.com blog (it has Premium subscription)? Over the years, it has malformed more and more of my text which I don’t want (as it is way too much work to re-visit thousands of blog posts).”
Unbelievably, the answer is no!
So WordPress.com mandatorily changes the display of all your old Premium blog posts and the only solution they offer is to upgrade for another USD ~17 per month to disable it.
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Posted in Development, PHP, Power User, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Development, WordPress, WordPress | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/29
Posted in Blogging, BlueSky, Development, Fediverse, HTML, Mastodon, Python, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/29
I knew that venv is always needed inside your project directory when using Python, and roughly why, but not exactly why, so the points in the below StackOverflow Q/A sequence and underlying article are important to save in my link archive.
[Wayback/Archive] python – What is a virtualenv, and why should I use one? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Kevin and [Wayback/Archive] Thanh Nguyen).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/28
Posted in Chrome, Development, Firefox, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Opera, Power User, Safari, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/24
YouTube has diversified its content separating out YouTube Shorts and YouTube Music.
The main YouTube viewing experience has a few advantages over the other two experiences:
- content can be monetised
- content can arranged into lists (including Watch Later)
- auto-play can be turned off
All below links have the same ID, but the ones with checkmarks can use all the above features whereas the ones with crosses cannot.
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Posted in Development, Google, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development, YouTube, YouTubeMusic | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/21
Fork of a repository that shows how to do this with normal Homebrew installs [Wayback/Archive] Install an old version with homebrew for macOS · GitHub has my notes to do a similar thing with Homebrew cask installs.
Fork of: [Wayback/Archive] Install an old version with homebrew for macOS · GitHub.
TODO: check notes to ensure they really work on a different system and were not a lucky shot.
Notes:
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Posted in Apple, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, gist, GitHub, Home brew / homebrew, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, Ruby, Scripting, Source Code Management | Tagged: 18365 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/21
Sometimes the XKCD episodes are hard to get, so I wanted a Bookmarklet to navigate to [Wayback/Archive] explain xkcd.
Here is the regular expression to change the domain name part if it matches: [Wayback/Archive] regex101: build, test, and debug regex: VI34VW with this generated sed code:
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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Bookmarklet, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, sed, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/15
I have a lot of old Power Point slide decks that I want to reuse in current presentations. By now however, I learned prepare all my presentation stuff in either Markdown or reStructuredText: far easier to publish and put under version control.
After searching, I could only find one tool that is still maintained doing a decent job doing a PowerPoint to Markdown conversion: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – ssine/pptx2md: a pptx to markdown converter. The tools which works great, in big part of PowerPoint content being highly structured with styles like title, subtitle and various heading levels and content types.
The thing it does not document is the prerequisites, which are these:
- a
venv (which, despite having used Python quite often, but not proficient in it, still makes me nervous: one forgotten step and you pip everything in your global environment).This links helps me every time [Wayback/Archive] Install packages in a virtual environment using pip and venv – Python Packaging User Guide. From it, I created this little table:
Steps for setting up and using a Python virtual environment
| Step |
*n*x/MacOS |
Windows |
Comment |
| 1. |
python3 -m venv .venv |
py -m venv .venv |
Only needed once |
| 2. |
source .venv/bin/activate |
.venv\Scripts\activate |
Switch to virtual environment |
| 3. |
which python |
where python |
Check if python is used from the virtual environment (should result in
.venv/bin/python on *n*x/MacOS or
.venv\Scripts\python on Windows) |
| 4. |
which pip |
where pip |
Check if pip is used from the virtual environment (should result in
.venv/bin/pip on *n*x/MacOS or
.venv\Scripts\pip on Windows) |
| 5. |
./.venv/bin/pptx2md</precode
|
.venv\bin\pptx2md |
Force a module which didn’t add itself to the path when installed via pip |
| 6. |
deactivate |
deactivate |
Leave the virtual environment |
- missed during
pip install pptx2md (in order I discovered them):
Future enhancements
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Posted in Development, Lightweight markup language, MarkDown, Office, Power Point, Power User, Python, Scripting, Software Development, venv | Leave a Comment »
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