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Archive for the ‘Cloud Apps’ Category

s3-ocr: Extract text from PDF files stored in an S3 bucket

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/16

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] s3-ocr: Extract text from PDF files stored in an S3 bucket

One reason is archival of books. Even (or maybe especially) in IT, books already have historic meaning especially in narrower fields where they often are not available in the Internet Archive or have been scanned by Google Books.

Via/related:

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Posted in Amazon S3, AWS Amazon Web Services, Cloud, Cloud Apps, Development, Infrastructure, Internet, Power User, Python, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Upgrading drawio throug brew functions slightly different than one expects

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/31

TL;DR

This fails:

brew update drawio
brew upgrade drawio

This works:

brew cask upgrade drawio

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draw.io Floorplan stencils – draw.io

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/20

I needed a way to draw floor plans.

PowerPoint solutions were to cumbersome, but then I remembered draw.io: it has [WayBack] draw.io Floorplan stencils – draw.io

Have you tried the floorplan stencils in draw.io? You can open the library directly by using the libs parameter, www.draw.io/?libs=floorplan. Or, you can enable them in your library section by clicking “more shapes” (bottom right) and ticking “floorplans”, then apply:

I configured draw.io to show measurements in points, then took 100 points per meter as scale.

At first I most of my measurements were wrong because the I thought the “fat” grid lines were every 50 points. They are not:

  • Light grid lines are 10 points
  • Fat grid lines are 40 points
  • Ruler has small marks every 10 points
  • Ruler has large marks every 50 points
  • Ruler has numbers every 100 points

How confusing!

–jeroen

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Links to learn more about infrastructure.

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/14

For my link archive; [Archive.is] .DS_Storoz on Twitter: “Alright, I’m rage-quitting the frontend, moving into infrastructure. (Seriously.) Where is my community for this? Who do I follow? What conferences do I go to? Please and thanks and RT!”

Keywords:

  • Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS!
  • Systems Performance, Google SRE book, DDIA
  • the DORA report
  • b0rk

–jeroen

Posted in Amazon S3, Amazon SES, Amazon.com/.de/.fr/.uk/..., AWS Amazon Web Services, Cloud, Containers, Docker, Infrastructure, Kubernetes (k8n), Power User | Leave a Comment »

Reminder to self: get less dependent on the various clouds

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/06/04

For my link archive: [WayBack] Grote Google-storing trof Gmail, YouTube en diensten van derden – IT Pro – Nieuws – Tweakers.

It has some interesting tips for IoT video doorbell products that are less depending on single-choice clouds:

Er bestaan er minimaal eentje; smart deurbel met camera en evt speaker, eigen intern netwerk, compatible met SIP (en video), zelf verantwoordelijk voor opnamen, etc. Enige nadeel is dan wel de prijs, het is een Duits kwaliteitsproduct, dus reken rond de 350 euro voor het absolute basismodel. Doorbird heet het; oa te koop bij Robbshop en CoolBlue of direct bij de fabiraknt’s website.

 

Je moet je huis flink geautomatiseerd hebben wil je echt nut van die api willen hebben.

als je alles zelf in de hand wil hebben doe je dat ook. Je zorgt er zelf voor dat je webinterface via een externe URL bereikbaar is en dan is het enkel je eigen hardware en internetverbindingen die als SPOF dienen en je kan dan ook makkelijker van solution-provider wisselen zonder vast te zitten.

 

wellicht is dit een oplossing voor jou?

https://www.instructables…oorbell-for-Less-Than-40/

 

–jeroen

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Mike Cardwell’s Tech Blog: Twitter to RSS with Google Cloud Function – Grepular

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/03

Cool, on my list of things to tinker with: [WayBack] Twitter to RSS with Google Cloud Function – Grepular at Mike Cardwell’s Tech Blog

Source at [WayBack] Mike Cardwell / funcTwitter · GitLab, of which these are the most important bits:

Via [WayBack] Mike Cardwell on Twitter: “Twitter to RSS with Google Cloud Function”

–jeroen

Posted in Cloud Apps, Cloud Development, Development, Google, Google Cloud Function, Internet, Power User, RSS, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter | Leave a Comment »

draw.io: the only way to remove shape waypoints is all of them via the context menu (via Tutorial 3 … draw.io Support)

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/22

Via [WayBack] Tutorial 3 – Connectors, Waypoints, and Altering Shapes – draw.io Online – draw.io Support: this is the only way to remove waypoints on a shape:

  1. context menu
  2. clear all

–jeroen

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Getting rid of trailing line-endings in the draw.io web interface

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/03

One of the things that bugged me for a long time is that every now and then for some shapes, when editing their text, the draw.io web interface puts in trailing line feeds after the text, messing up layout.

The easiest way to work around it is by searching inside the diagram XML for
"
, then replacing that with a ".

(the above code got screwed by WordPress.com saving it, so the search is in this small gist below)

This behaviour is intermittent on the drawio MacOS desktop app.



"

–jeroen

 

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Calendar Link ParametersTeamup Calendar

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/03

A while back, I needed to show the Teamup Calendar for my marching band at a specific date.

Luckily I found [Wayback/ArchiveCalendar Link ParametersTeamup Calendar allowing me to assemble such link:

https://teamup.com/ks7a793f73fc4d5e89?date=2018-09-03&view=l

Which shows at the end of the month, we are going to perform on Tattoo on Stage in Luzern (Lucerne), Switzerland in the famous KKL concert hall:

KKL Luzern im Oktober: Tattoo on Stage mit Militär- & Show Bands aus der ganzen Welt. Das Festivalprogramm sowie Tickets gibt es bei worldbandfestival.ch

[Wayback/Archive] Tattoo on Stage | KKL Luzern, 01. Oktober 2017

We’ve been there before and it’s great fun! The [Wayback/Archive] New Zealand Army Band even did a haka challenge with us.

--jeroen

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Home – Outpan – GTIN to product attribute mapping

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/26

On my research list: Home – Outpan as it is a key-value store of EAN (actually GTIN, so including GS1 UPC, EAN which means barcodes like UPC-12, EAN-8, EAN-13 and ITF-14).

  • [WayBackGlobal Trade Item Number – Wikipedia
  • [WayBackAPI Documentation – Outpan Developers

    Legacy API

    Get Product Information

    GET https://api.outpan.com/v2/products/[GTIN]?apikey=[YOUR API KEY]


    Add Product Name

    POST https://api.outpan.com/v2/products/[GTIN]/name?apikey=[YOUR API KEY]

    Required POST parameters:

    name: The name you would like to add for this product.


    Add Product Attribute

    POST https://api.outpan.com/v2/products/[GTIN]/attribute?apikey=[YOUR API KEY]

    Required POST parameters:

    name: Name of the attribute you would like to add for this product.

    value: Value for the attribute you would like to add for this product.


    • [GTIN] is the barcode number (ISBN, EAN, UPC, …) of the product you’re looking up.
    • All API calls must be done via HTTPS. Plain HTTP calls will be rejected.

–jeroen

via [WayBack[How To] Scan a barcode and add the product name to Wunderlist : tasker

 

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