KevLinDev Blog

Hi Folks,

Long time, no blog. I guess that’s the nature of tech interests and all that. However, I’ve been delightfully surprised to continue to receive emails over the years from people that have found bits and pieces of the site useful…even after begin dormant for almost 6 years!

In an effort to increase visibility of some of the more interesting code on KevLinDev and to make it easier for others to fork, branch, commit, etc., I plan to move bits and pieces to GitHub as time permits. And what better way to set priorities on what to move first than by basing my list on the gentle proddings of the emails I receive?

The first item to move to GitHub is my DigiMemo 692 DHW file format conversion utility which was discussed in Christmas Fun. This was one of those hey-wouldn’t-this-be-neat ideas where a few hours later I ended up with a utility to take my horrible handwriting and drawings and then convert them to SVG. Well, it’s years later and now that code has been reborn on GitHub and lives at the following URL:

DM2SVG

The script is quite simple and could easily be converted to other languages. One thing I always wanted to add was animation showing the drawings as they were digitized over time. So, for those of you in this very much of a niche use-case, enjoy!

P.S. Thanks go to David Yonge-Mallo for reminding me of this project. He has a nice blog post up that uses a variant of my code to generate Jarnal files.

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