Programming and Web Development Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 09, 2025

• Rlang ☛ 2025-01 LaTeX Typesetting in R

  This document describes some lower-level, technical details of the CRAN package ‘xdvir’ for rendering LaTeX fragments as labels and annotations on R plots.

• Games

  • Forbes ☛ ‘Monster Hunter Wilds’ Proves Steam Deck Verification Is Meaningless

    When it comes to enjoying a game on Steam Deck, my opinion doesn't matter. Neither does Valve's "Deck Verified" program.

  • Leon Mika ☛ Adventures In Godot: Respawning A Falling Platform

    My taste of going through a Godot tutorial last week has got me wanting more, so I’ve set about building a game with it. Thanks to my limited art skills, I’m using the same asset pack that was used in the video, although I am planning to add a bit of my own here and there.

• Python

  • Hackaday ☛ Writing An OLED Display Driver In MicroZig

    Although most people would use C, C++ or MicroPython for programming microcontrollers, there are a few more obscure options out there as well, with MicroZig being one of them. Recently [Andrew Conlin] wrote about how to use MicroZig with the Raspberry Pi RP2040 MCU, showing the process of writing an SSD1306 OLED display driver and running it. Although MicroZig has since published a built-in version, the blog post gives a good impression of what developing with MicroZig is like.

• Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)

  • Juha-Matti Santala ☛ List blog posts grouped by year with Eleventy

    Eleventy project is configured with a configuration file that can have different names. I’ll refer to this file as eleventy.config.js but you can adjust accordingly with your own project.

  • Murtuzaali Surti ☛ Eleventy's Image Plugin Disk Caching Approach For HTML Transform Method

    I use the HTML transform method of the @11ty/eleventy-img plugin to post process any img or picture tags in my html. I find this method easy and universal. In this guide, I'll walk you through an approach of utilizing disk cache while using the HTML transform method of the eleventy image plugin.