Contact

Pierre-Louis Blanchard

Links

Art History Fantastics A blog by independent scholar Dominic Riemenschneider approaching works of fantasy fiction from the lense of history of art.

Me elsewhere on the web

My codepen You’ll find some of the code I used for this and other websites there. (Nothing fancy.)

Research Tools: Literature

academia.edu A great many amount of articles can be downloaded directly from the profiles of the scholars themselves.

Bruno Latour Homepage Bruno Latour’s article can be found on his own homepage.

ZoteroBib A tool that helps compiling bibliographies.

Kewl Writing Tools

Style and Diction Tools to anaylse your writing.

Computing stuff

Platinum9.1 theme for Xfce A theme for the Xfce desktop environment to make it look like 1990's classic Mac OS. (I used Mac OS 8 and 9 in my teenage years.)

How to make SVG graphics Basics on what SVG is (Scalable Vector Graphics) and how they work.

Inkscape (drawing program) A FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) that is excellent to make SVG graphics.

Top (system monitor) A little tutorial to beautify the standard unix system monitor 'top'.

Processing multiple PDFs using the command line Some really cool tips for handling pdfs.

Figlet. Make plain text banners.

Programming

Rosetta Code. A website to compare how to solve problems in different languages. Useful if you are wondering what language to use for a task.

Lua manual. 1st and outdate edition, but it's free.

Grymoire. Tutorials for POSIX Shell, awk, grep, sed, make, etc.

How to: Create a Python virtual environment in the Linux terminal

Networking Technology

LibreSpeed Speedtest A tool to test the speed of your internet connection.

Art & Entertainment

Pepper & Carrot A free & open webcomic paid by Patreons. An interesting business model and very nice comic about a witch and her cat.

Khruangbin My favourite band.

Online Research

Google Books. Has some books you can consult and search online.

Dodis.ch. Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland.

Sources UNESCO

Index of Inactive Correspondence files, 1945-1955.

UNESCO Digital Library.

General Conference.

Executive Board.

Archival Description Database AtoM.

Informationswissenschaften & Dokumentation

Verschlagwortung & Klassifikation

History

Lucerne





Last updated on: 2024-05-20