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A boring solution for a boring problem - Working with PDFs.

I've been making a browser-based PDF editor that runs on-device via Webassembly / PDFium. Many of the hard parts were done by the open source embedpdf project, and I've been adding my own custom tools on top of it.

It does the usual annotation stuff — highlights, comments, stamps, etc. working on some more advanced stuff now - regex search/redact, measurements and takeoff tools for AEC industry.

https://www.Draftpdf.com


Every time I have to open Acrobat it makes me want to puke, and Bluebeam is quite expensive, so I'm working on a full-featured PDF editor you can run in the browser.

https://DraftPDF.com


Many structural engineering graduate students still get exposed to TCL as its the input language of the OpenSees framework for structural and earthquake engineering.

https://opensees.ist.berkeley.edu/wiki/index.php?title=OpenS...

Luckily, there is also now a python interpreter.


I’ve been using these and vercels v0 to piece together a next.js app, and it works pretty good, for someone with no real ui design experience.


I can believe it, after all, I ingest most of my water in a mixture with roasted ground beans from the rainforest.


And I, with some very poorly treated leaves of some plants. But sill ... sugar?


This exists and it’s not even that hard or costly when you consider the purchase price of a house. I had a home energy evaluation completed when I bought my house for about $400. A government could easily require it be provided as a condition of sale. It provides a rating [0] which is good for comparing houses, and also a prioritized list of recommended upgrades.

[0] https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy-efficiency/energuide/energuid...


This isn’t correct. You probably saw a concrete residential building and a steel office building by chance. It does not follow that every single office building is built this way. There are concrete office buildings all over the place, usually with thicker slabs than a residential building, because the office building actually needs to be designed for much higher loads.

By the way, the thin steel deck you saw gets concrete poured on it too once installed.


Excel is transformational. If you're reading this indoors, there's a good chance that significant portions of the building around you were engineered using excel.


A hammock hung in a shady grove of trees. Perfect for lazy Sunday afternoons.

A bunch of tplink smart light switches for the well used lights around the house. Deep satisfaction every night to turn off an entire floor with a voice command. Next up will probably be automatic roller shades, though they are considerably more pricy.


If you follow the inlet back to the ocean a short ways, you reach Gingolx (Kincolith) [1] which has < 400 people. It would be a fairly unremarkable place except they randomly started having a big festival called crabfest, which has brought bands such as Trooper, Tom Cochrane, and Nazareth to this tiny village.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ging%CC%B1olx


To be fair at this point Nazareth would be willing to perform in exchange for dinner at the Old Country Buffet


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