I suppose part of my nature is to never let something be, always looking for ways to improve things. Mavie was decent – an easy to use journal you could export to text or html if you wanted to use it elsewhere. But it seemed like a bit of a
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Ocean of Silence Goes Video
As you might have guessed ‘Ocean of Silence’ is the title of my book of poetry, and of the namesake poem. Lately I have been watching Kelly Boesch videos on FB, loving the way she puts them together in her imagination! After listening to her TED talk I realized that
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PyPer At The Gates of WAN
Let me say at the outset this is NOT about GenZ bashing. I work in IT in my other life, all told I am coming up on 50 years since I sat my first computer science class (is anyone using Fortran anymore?). So I have seen a lot, from mainframes
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PyWrite Gets A Little Brother
Before WordsWorth there was PyWrite, a simple no-nonsense app for creating manuscripts. It worked but was just a little basic for other than writing blog posts and poems, but it wasn’t in your face like most writing apps. Which got me thinking… I use Trilium Notes for most of my
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Facelift – No Botox!
Ok, so playing around with CustomTkinter, and it is not that diff in syntax from ttkbootstrap with just a bit more flex in the themes. So me being me put a few more apps through the wringer. The PyRadio is playing Yimago in the background and away we go… So
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PyRadio Gets a Facelift
For about the last year or so I have been building python apps in TTKBootstrap, a lovely upgrade on the very dated Tkinter interfaces. But it has limitations, so off to try out / learn a new framework. In this case Custom Tkinter. Truth be known I was finding the