- eXpl0it3rWhat are the reasons to use a throw away account and neither mention the product nor the niche area?
- What's your source and/or quality of the financial data? How much do you cover? What data fields do you provide?
- That's already what is happening...
When you do a check on https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords nothing is sent to the server. Instead the password is hashed locally and a list of the hash range is downloaded, which contains all the hashes and the number of occurrences.
The server doesn't receive the password, neither in plain-text nor hash form.
- Why are you as surprised?
People don't just share their stargazing plots "for fun", but because it has meaning for them.
- I encourage you to still share your ideas and thoughts. It doesn't need to be as a blog, but in general. :)
Don't censor yourself out of fear of what others might think or misunderstand.
Many may get confused and some might not like it, but there may also be a small group of people who understand, which if you fall silent couldn't be reached.
- And/or submit it to: https://powrss.com/
Same idea, maybe with a bit more focus on RSS
- And then you risk people making stupid decisions, which you have to fix later on, because you didn't attend the meeting.
Sometimes it's not just about whether others think you should be there.
- I fully agree! Can also recommend to everyone to take a similar course or use self-study material on the topic. Understanding the lowest layers makes you a better software engineer, as your mental model of a CPU/PC gets sharper.
- Someone has built a RSS feed aggregator specifically for personal websites: https://powrss.com/
- Is this for your personal workflow, or for applications that you ship?
How do you handle deployment / packaging of multiple, different ecosystems?
- PdfPig [1] is a (partial?) port of PdfBox, I haven't really tried it so far, due to the weak support for PDF creation.
- The past week, I've implemented a Markdig renderer that outputs / renders into a Migradoc document, which can be converted to PDF. For the limited used case it works quite well and I'm currently looking into open sourcing it with some other MigraDoc related stuff under MIT.
Justified text isn't exactly a standard Markdown feature though. I guess Markdown converters are in general not easy, since there are so many dialects and at best people just mix in pure HTML, requiring a HTML renderer as well.
Anyways, if you're interested in the Markdig to MigraDoc renderer, let me know.
- wkhtmltopdf repository has been archived on GitHub. Maybe if you're lucky, someone will make a fork, but it's quite hard for a fork to get traction and retain some user base / not to be immediately discarded as well.
Qt WebKit is, compared to Chromium, quite light-weight at 30-40MB. However it's still quite large, compared to say MigraDoc + PDFsharp at 1MB. Truthfully, if there was a well maintained project using it, I'd have actually considered it.
Though Qt WebKit also moves you into the murky water of copy-left licensing, as Qt is released under LGPL. With the setup of using a shared native library, this should work, but might still not be something everyone wants to touch.
- Thank you, glad you liked it!
If you have any libraries on your list that is missing on mine, let me know!
- Do you know what Foxit Reader does for the "printing" part? Does it convert it to XPS or PS?
- Most of my research was directed at PDF creation and less at editing, so I'm not sure the list captures everything available.
For example I somehow dismissed PdfPig [1] early on, because it's mostly for text extraction from PDFs, but it does support some basic editing of sorts.
- You're welcome!
Having played around with MigraDoc for the past few weeks, I do still recommend it, as long as you don't need more complex layouts. Here's a short and certainly incomplete list of limitations that I've run into so far:
- No tables within other tables
- No multi-column page layouts
- No multi-section on the same page (new section = new page)
- No letter spacing
- MigraDoc doesn't know about the final spacing, so you can't adjust say the width of some table column automatically. Either calculate an estimated based on the text/content or space them equally.
- Can't shade (background color) only a selection of words in a text
- Lists can only have up to three different symbols
- List indentation can behave quite strange, due to tabstops
- No horizontal rule (can be emulated)
- There's a bug with bottom border of a paragraph
On the other hand, MigraDoc & PDFsharp as less than 1MB and plenty fast, so it's a great package, as long as you can build some workarounds to achieve the desired look.
- Just today I looked at LaTeX interop for C#, but it seems the TeX world is in its own bubble of commandline tools.
Do you use any library or are you just calling the standard TeX CLI tools?
- It is misleading in so far that XSLT is an independent standard [1] and isn't owned by Google, so they cannot "kill it", or rather they'd have to ask W3C to mark it as deprecated.
What they can do is remove support for XSLT in Chrome and thus basically kill XSLT for websites. Which until now I didn't even know was supported and used.
XSLT can be used in many other areas as well, e.g. for XSL-FO [2]
[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL_Formatting_Objects