SmoothMouse does not work in macOS Sierra

Posted on June 16, 2016 by Dae

Do not install macOS Sierra if your productivity depends on SmoothMouse, currently it  does not work on it. We’ll be investigating the problem soon. Update: sorry, we won’t support Sierra.

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Run Django dev server with Gulp

Posted on May 22, 2016 by Dae

This is basically an extract from this excellent article by Caktus Group’s Calvin Spealman. Continue reading →

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About the author

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Dae

My name is Eugene, but on the Internet I often go by Dae. Welcome to my personal technical blog.

I’m an IT professional, web developer, and producer/investor who works with small teams and SMEs in Europe in various roles involving IT, management, marketing, and design. I’m passionate about helping small businesses achieve big goals with the help of cost-efficient and non-bloated technology.

My IT company: https://dae.io/
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Django: add i18n template tag to built-ins

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Dae

Django 1.9 allows you to load template tags globally, i.e. without having to include {% load %} statements at the top of each template. The new option is called builtins and you can set it in your settings.py like so (in the example, I’m loading the i18n tag library). Continue reading →

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librsvg 2.40.11 breaks resizing in rsvg-convert

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Dae

rsvg-convert 2.40.11 calculates SVG bounds incorrectly resulting in an empty or cropped image. (See my comment in Homebrew repository and the bug report).  Continue reading →

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Magnific Popup + HTML5 History API (demo)

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Dae

A demo of Magnific Popup with unique URLs and browser Back/Forward button support, using HTML5 History API via History.js. GitHub.

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SmoothMouse works again in El Capitan DP3

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Dae

Thanks to Apple for addressing the problem. Hope they don’t break anything else before the release.

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SmoothMouse broken under El Capitan DP2

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Dae

Do not install El Capitan DP2 if your productivity depends on SmoothMouse. SM won’t work on it.

Apple has broken the API for pointer movement that SmoothMouse (as well as Wacom driver) relies on. This is also the reason why Wacom driver does not work anymore in El Capitan.

SmoothMouse had used the officially recommended API  in the past, before version 1.0.5. Switching to a less supported API solved a lot of problems for our users.

We’re trying to reach the OS X dev team. Stay tuned.

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Watermark images like a pro using Python + Wand + librsvg

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Dae

This is a Python 2.7 code recipe for applying a semi-transparent vector (SVG) watermark with overlay blending like so:

What’s special about it: Continue reading →

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Using Python’s urllib2 or Requests with a SOCKS5 proxy

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Dae

Just a Python 2.7 code sample showing how to make requests using Python’s urllib2 or Requests through a SOCKS proxy. Continue reading →

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