Three photos of pencil sketches went in, a flat-pack style assembly manual for a nest box with a camera compartment came out. What Claude Code read, what it fixed, and how to build the images and a multi-page PDF from the plan.
Category: python
How a small PAdES signing tool grew into slim-pdf: smartcards and KeePass as key sources, a ribbon GUI, form filling, OCR with each system’s own engine, text search, and why the license ended up as GPL-3.0.
How a document scanner without eSCL/AirScan led to slim-scan: a pure-Python WSD client, a GTK 4 desktop app, image clean-up on the scanned pages, a SANE backend, and two upstream bugs in the epsonds driver.
Building an OAuth2-secured MCP mail server against a real Dovecot/Postfix mailbox surfaced four separate Keycloak client registrations, a Default-vs-Optional scope trap, and a genuinely counter-intuitive Audience-mapper gotcha behind a mysterious active: false.
In the last months MCP (Model Context Protocol) became one of the hot topics in the field of AI. While it is promoted for connecting tools/agents to LLM workflows there’s very little information about how things work on a technical basis. On most places So here’s my quest to answer those questions by writing a […]
As mentioned earlier I was going to replace thiss-mdq with pyFF for my SAML federation metadata query service. Comparison thiss-mdq / pyFF On its project site thiss-mdq describes itself as The thiss-mdq is a minimal implementation of MDQ that only supports JSON data. while pyFF considers itself “a SAML metadata aggregator written in python”. Both […]
Recently I got access to an Openstack system and did my first steps on it. Maybe some of the things I learned so far are of interest to others. Using cloudinit for customization Cloud providers offer the possibility to alter the configuration of their VM images in a standardized way: cloudinit. This uses a simple […]