So, I'm playing around with writing a different backend for my Pyblosxom blog. It uses Markdown syntax, but is unlike the two other Markdown Pyblosxom plugins I've found. It's closer to the reStructuredText plugin, defering all the computation to the freewisdom implementation of Markdown in Python.
Tue, 27 Nov 2007
Testing Markdown
Thu, 22 Nov 2007
Thumbscrew 1.0 Final
After nearly 3 years in the oven, it's baked.
From the manual:
Screw it! Making thumbnails for the Web used to be painstakingly slow if you wanted to apply borders, drop shadows, transformations, alpha channels, and so on. Or if it was fast, you ended up with a boring field of rigid columns and rows. Thumbscrew allows you to quickly and easily chew through a bunch of images, applying scaling, random rotation, border, and drop shadow to each – even resizing the original, and processing the batch as a whole afterwards.
Images can come from a variety of places:
- Drag images (or folders of images) in from the Finder
- Paste images from the Clipboard
- Paste or drag in URLs to images
When images are being processed, the image well in the main window will be briefly replaced with the original, and as the thumbnail is created, with the thumbnail. A progress bar at the bottom tracks overall progress of the batch.
After a batch has run, a batch file is created in ~/Library/Application Support/Thumbscrew/Batches/ and the selected post-flight script is run with this file as its only argument.
What it looks like:
What it does:
Not much in the way of new features:
- Manual included and accessible from Help menu
- Proper handling of Paste keybindings (command-V vs. command-option-V)
- New appcast URL.
Get it while it's hot.
Thumbscrew 1.0