Posts from June 2019

• Snippet: Converting SVG with embedded CSS fonts to PDF

  13 June 2019 (updated 29 March 2025) | guide | Comment

  This is a snippet of Python code that can be used as a framework for converting SVG files with embedded CSS fonts (@font-face) to PDF, maintaining the font embedding.

  import base64
  import os
  import re
  import subprocess
  import uuid
  
  #from fontTools.ttLib import TTFont

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• Just Talley & O'Connor things: Part 2

  09 June 2019 | medicine | Comment

  « Part 1

  Choice quotes from Talley and O'Connor's Clinical Examination, 8th edition.

  Chapter 6

  Leo Buerger (1879–1943), New York physician, born in Vienna, who described thromboangiitis obliterans. He was obsessed with expensive cars. (p. 113)

  John Homans (1877–1954), a professor of surgery at

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• Guide: cURL in an initramfs environment (with HTTPS and DNS)

  05 June 2019 (updated 05 June 2019) | guide linux | Comment

  I recently found myself wishing to be able to remotely unlock my LUKS partitions on (re)boot. The Arch Linux wiki has some information on this, but this was not sufficient for my case, as my network assigns dynamic IP addresses, which I normally push to… »