Ben Chuanlong Du's Blog

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Web Automation

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

UI Vision

https://ui.vision/

Easy hybrid workflow automation with Selenium-style commands, Computer Vision/OCR, and AI - all from a simple browser extension.

Selenium

Selenium is a great web automation tool …

Tips on the Fish Shell

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Tips & Traps

  1. Configuration files of the fish shell are located at ~/.config/fish.

Installation & Configuration

icon makes it easy to install and configure the fish shell.

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Key Bindings …

ModuleNotFoundError: No Module Named _Ctypes in Python

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Issue

The error message "ModuleNotFoundError: No Module Named _Ctypes" is thrown when using Python.

Cause

A crucial built-in module, _ctypes, is either missing from your Python installation or cannot be located …

Tips on GitHub Actions

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Tips and Traps

  1. You can use sudo without password in Linux and macOS when running GitHub Actions.

  2. GitHub Actions supports manual triggers with workflow_dispatch. Workflow parameters are supported in manually triggers …

Dual Boot Linux and Windows

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

I personally don't see much value in dual booting Linux and Windows. Please refer to Windows Emulation on Linux if you need to run Windows apps on Linux.

Mount the Windows …