Writing and using ROBOT plugins
A short tutorial on how to develop “pluggable commands” for ROBOT, the OBO Foundry ontology manipulation tool.
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A short tutorial on how to develop “pluggable commands” for ROBOT, the OBO Foundry ontology manipulation tool.
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How to configure key bindings on macOS to emulate the behaviour of a “Compose” key.
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How to build a Java-based standalone application that runs natively on both x86_64 and arm64 Apple computers.
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Some feedback on the AKAI MPK mini3 MIDI controller, and in particular how to work around the intermittent low velocity issue.
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How to use Scute, GnuPG’s PKCS#11 component, to sign documents.
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Why I’m giving up on using and promoting the format=flowed mail format, and what to do instead.
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Que s’est-il passé au juste entre les développeurs du noyau Linux et les chercheurs de l’Université du Minnesota ?
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Pourquoi il a été possible de développer des vaccins contre le SARS-CoV-2 en « moins d’un an ».
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A simple “trick” to open a file from the Vim terminal without creating a new instance of Vim.
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Qu’est-ce que FlyBase, et que font les personnes qui y travaillent ?
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Un plaidoyer en faveur des notes de blog contre les fils-fleuves Twitter.
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A collection of pointers to some OpenPGP resources.
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A quick note on how to setup Neomutt and Vim to use the format=flowed mail format.
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How to use a TPM 2.0 chip for public-key authentication under GNU/Linux.
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How to access some system properties from the /sys filesystem from within Awesome, with a bit of Lua scripting.
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OpenGL hardware rendering and video decoding did not work “out of the box” on my new laptop under GNU/Linux, here’s what I did to make it work.
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I describe the tools I used to manage my academic literature, and how I use them.
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Un petit exercice avec Jupyter/Matplotlib et la dette publique française.
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How I transitioned my mail server from explicit TLS to implicit TLS, as recommended by RFC 8314.
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How many SMTP clients are using SMTP-over-TLS when connecting to my own server?
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Un pense-bête sur le boutisme et les manières de le gérer en langage C.
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A survey of the available implementations of the OpenPGP Card specification.
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Quelques réflexions sur les manières de gérer le manque de mémoire dans des programmes en C.
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How to integrate properly (?) SPF and DMARC validation into a Postfix setup.
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A quick presentation of the current DNS record types for the publication of cryptographic keys.
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Combien de clients SMTP utilisent TLS pour se connecter à mon serveur?
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How to keep a master GnuPG key offline, and how to use it when needed.
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How to replace the SSH agent by the GnuPG agent, and how to use an OpenPGP key pair to authenticate into a SSH server—updated note for GnuPG 2.1 “modern”.
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On using Udev to disarm malicious USB flash drives masquerading as input devices.
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My first steps with the Matplotlib library with IPython, and how I use it to make dotplots of raw data.
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How to install the Pandoc document converter on a Slackware system—not as easy as I would have wanted.
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How to replace the SSH agent by the GnuPG agent, and how to use an OpenPGP key pair to authenticate into a SSH server.
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How to setup NetworkManager on a Slackware system, and make it work with Unbound as a local DNS resolver.
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How to setup and configure Dnssec-trigger on a Slackware system, to ensure that DNS replies are validated by DNSSEC—either by the DNSSEC-capable nameservers of your network or by a local validating resolver.
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Comment inclure une vidéo dans un fichier PDF et sur quelles plate-formes et avec quels visionneurs peut-on espérer la lire.
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Presentation of the flygenet package, for fly genetics notation with LaTeX.
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How to adapt the configuration of OMERO.web to work with the latest versions of the Apache web server.
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How to compute the exact average molecular weight of a human protein.
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Some problems I ran into after switching from xterm to urxvt, and the workarounds I found.
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How I tweaked Awesome to make a client window span on all screens.
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Le domaine incenp.org est depuis quelques semaines entièrement accessible par IPv6. J’expose brièvement comment cela s’est fait.
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How to easily use TrueType fonts with Apache FOP, the XSL/FO processor.
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Quelles sont les mesures que je prends pour éviter à ma boîte de réception d’être submergée de pourriels ? Il y en a deux : une vérification active de la légitimité de l’expéditeur, et un filtrage bayésien.
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Ce que je pense de la pratique consistant à masquer ou déformer son adresse e-mail, et pourquoi je ne le fais pas.
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Ou pourquoi je ne réclame pas un firmware libre pour mon four à micro-ondes.
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How to use MPlayer to dynamically select a region to crop in a video.
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Typical images of mitotic cells observed by epifluorescence microscopy.
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Quelques remarques en vrac après le premier tour de l’élection présidentielle française.
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I describe how I combined several command-line tools (MPlayer/MEncoder and ImageMagick) to create a composite short movie sequence.
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Comment changer dynamiquement de configuration d’écran sous GNU/Linux avec xrandr, un peu de shell et Awesome.
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Une description du modèle sur lequel sont basées toutes mes présentations Beamer.
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Comment configurer ses écrans en vue d’une présentation avec Beamer, avec affichage des notes sur l’écran faisant face à l’orateur.
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M’étant vu confier le soin de préparer un manuscrit en vue d’une soumission à Nature, je découvre les consignes pratiques données par Nature Publishing à ses auteurs.
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Some quick reference tables on proteins found in centromere and kinetochore complexes, in yeasts and human.
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Awesome, like most window managers or desktop environments, displays the current time somewhere on the screen. I want it to display also the current time in a different timezone than the local timezone.
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I ran into a problem when using Biopython: writing a sequence to sys.stdout with standard output redirected to a file caused a shell escape sequence (\E[?1034h) to appear at the beginning of the resulting file.
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I list here the programs and libraries that I use as a life science researcher.
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Une compilation de quelques-unes des conventions d’écriture des gènes en vigueur chez les biologistes.
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