This Github project from Ankur Gupta allows you to "generate beautiful, minimalist map posters for any city in the world".

You can install the Python scripts on your computer or use this website.

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Had to work with some machine generated XML files.
To make them more readable, I looked for a way to format and indent them in Vim.

There are many tools for this, I stumbled upon xmllint which also validates the XML.
This can be useful, but restricts it to formatting valid XML files only.

:%!xmllint --format %

CSS Optical Illusions

Simulating Crop Marks is a fun CSS experiment.
It uses html::before/after body::before/after together with some background: linear-gradient magic to draw crop marks around a website.

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Two very interesting blog posts explaining how Alex manages multi-factor recovery codes and memorises passwords:

• Where I store my multi-factor recovery codes
• The passwords I actually memorise

But enabling MFA isn’t everything – what if you lose access to that second factor? For example, I store my MFA codes in an app on my phone. What happens if my phone is broken or stolen?

I generally trust my password manager, but I don’t want it to be a single point of failure for my entire digital life.

Sad and devastated. Wish strength to all.

Netsky & Andromedik - Out of Body (Blooom Remix)

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Feeling burnt out? A bush blessing for the end of the year
Now is the time to think of new beginnings

Illustration: Jess Hardwood

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A long time ago I learned about the gf command in Vim.
It goes to the file whose name is under the cursor.
This can be pretty handy if you have a bunch of Markdown files that reference each-other.

But I never knew to go back to the previous file again.
So this week I took the time to find out how to do it.
And it turns out that there are multiple ways :-)

The most straightforward one is: CTRL-6
And there is also CTRL-o (back to the 'outer' file) with its companion CTRL-i (go forward to the 'inner' file).
CTRL-o and CTRL-i can be used to jump back and forth on the list of files opened via gf.

Infomaniak released Euria, a free, privacy-respecting, swiss-hosted AI assistant.
I briefly tried their web version, and it gives a good impression so far.
Good to have this available as a local alternative. 🇨🇭

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