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Friday, 8th September 2023

bpy—Blender on PyPI (via) TIL you can “pip install” Blender!

bpy “provides Blender as a Python module”—it’s part of the official Blender project, and ships with binary wheels ranging in size from 168MB to 319MB depending on your platform.

It only supports the version of Python used by the current Blender release though—right now that’s Python 3.10.

# 3:29 pm / pypi, python, blender

Dynamic linker tricks: Using LD_PRELOAD to cheat, inject features and investigate programs (via) This tutorial by Rafał Cieślak from 2013 filled in a bunch of gaps in my knowledge about how C works on Linux.

# 10:05 pm / c, linux

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