Coding with Alex

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Strip the BOM from the UTF-8 encoded text

The BOM charachters are used to indicate that the following text is enocded as UTF-8, what makes it …
byAlex R. •December 06, 2022
Convert string to barcode 128 encoding

Barcode Code 128 encoding is used to encode alphanumeric charachters, it is a high density and compa…
byAlex R. •December 01, 2022
A library to generate compressed JPEGs with high quality

JPEG compression has some loss of quality and the outcome size depends on the algorithm in use. I…
byAlex R. •October 31, 2022
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