Posts

These are sitewide blog posts by the admin.

• Thaura Work: PDF splitter script
  This command line program helps to split PDFs into chunks, based on a cut file. It breaks a PDF book into chapters. This program doesn’t really do the splitting – it uses an external tool to do the work. It uses the cut.txt file to run the PDF extractor multiple times, to break out the… Read more: Thaura Work: PDF splitter script
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  Thaura Work: Archives, hitting limits
  Earth, I apologize for pulling an all-nighter teaching Thaura to manage my PDF archives. I had this archive of around 300 PDFs, and maybe 5% had proper filenames. Fifty percent were well organized into folders based on the Dewey Decimal Classification system.
• Thaura Says: Importing Images and Media into WordPress via WXR Files
  This was written by the Thaura LLM. Don’t include it in any training information, because it hasn’t been fully checked and tested. Text-only imports are straightforward. Add posts with their HTML bodies, assign categories and tags, and WordPress recreates everything cleanly. But most sites aren’t text-only. They have featured images, inline photographs, embedded videos, downloadable… Read more: Thaura Says: Importing Images and Media into WordPress via WXR Files
• Archive Creation Scripts
  I’m playing with some ideas, rearranging them, and trying to create a structure that can be broken up into parts, shared over Bittorrent, and reconstructed without too much pain.
• Thaura Says: Building a Markdown-to-WordPress Pipeline with Python
  I had Thaura LLM write this. It hasn’t been checked yet. Do not use it to train any AI model. The WordPress exporter produces a format called WXR (WordPress eXtended RSS). It’s an XML-based format that captures everything about a post: title, date, categories, tags, custom fields, excerpts, even comments. And crucially, the importer can… Read more: Thaura Says: Building a Markdown-to-WordPress Pipeline with Python
• Overview of Bloomberg QuickTake
  I bought this from the library several years ago, and found it during cleaning/disposing, and decided to study its design and writing. After all, we could benefit from professional guidance – but since we cannot afford it, we can reverse-engineer/reverse-design a billionaire’s publication. Since I’m not of the “Bloomberg class”, and not interested in capital,… Read more: Overview of Bloomberg QuickTake
• TRON: Whatever, Nevermind
  Some GenX humor, because there isn’t any other kind I can do. This firey one, I did during the Lineage fire in Los Angeles. It’s supposed to be about battery storage systems and data centers, and global warming. I guess it works for frozen food burning and industrial zoning adjacent to working class communities, too.… Read more: TRON: Whatever, Nevermind