I’m disabled, and bright PDFs aren’t just annoying, they are painful.

My regular PDF viewer has inverted colors, so it’s fine (even if images pictures are completly off with that). But inside Firefox, even with dark mode enabled, embedded PDFs still render as bright white pages, even …

As a visually impaired person, reading is more challenging for me than for most people. Colors as well as fonts have an huge impact and readability and comfort.

Here are some fonts designed to help increase legibility for visually impaired people.

Luciole

Luciole (french for “firefly”) is an open-source font …

I work regularly over SSH with embedded devices I need to reboot, and sometimes the connection just hangs when I hit reboot. Nothing can get out it and for long time my solution was to close the terminal tab and open another one.

But there is a keyboard shortcut to …

As you know, dark-mode is more than just asthetics., and I recently found two more tools to help with that.

Invert image color.

The dark reader browser extension works relatively well for the text and background, but it really struggles with images. I recently stumbled upon Invert image color..

It …

I recently started using for the first time a laptop running Linux with an external screen. Unfortunately, out of the box, GDM uses only the laptop built-in monitor and not the external screen.

If you look this issue online, you'll find plenty of resources like which boil down to configure …

I recently had to shrink some PDF files to send to be able send them by email.

Shrinking a PDF

TL:DR

gs -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.7 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sOutputFile=out.pdf in.pdf

Let's break is down !

gs stands for Ghostscript, a suite of tools …

Like many fellow software engineers, I'm bad at picking colors, so I was quite excited when I discovered open-color, less thinking to do ! Moreover, I use rainbow-mode once in a while, which allows to set the background of a string representing a color in a buffer to the corresponding color …

Recently, a colleague of mine proposed the following change in our code base

Change:

    memcpy(network_buffer,
           original_message,
           MIN(original_message_size, OUT_BUFFER_MAX_SIZE));

To

    memcpy(network_buffer,
           &original_message[2],
           MIN(original_message_size - 2, OUT_BUFFER_MAX_SIZE));

The original intend was to skip the first two bytes (if any) because we didn't need them.

To have the full …

I discovered in 2011 that I had won the genetic lottery: I am suffering from Retinis Pigmentosa. Since, my vision overall has been declining (worsening eyesight, narrowing field of view, loss of night vision), and my photophobia increased by a lot. The condition has reached a level where a moderate …