hello. I'm halcy. here's some blog posts, tagged technology:

New Features in Mastodon.py 2.3

Mastodon.py 2.3.3 is finally tagged, and here’s a few new things that it supports that I think are neat!

In an earlier draft of this post, it was version 2.3.2, but I noticed during writing that I forgot to document the new Collections endpoint …

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QR Codes that can be read multiple different ways

After seeing a Mastodon post about slightly messy QR codes recently, and another post pointing to a tutorial for how to read QR codes without a computer a while before that, I started messing around a bit with QR codes, and eventually ended up wondering if there are ways to make QR codes that scan with multiple different results, maybe exploiting the different quirks of different scanners or using camera tricks. It feels like something that somebody at some point would have tried.

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