Python development tips 2024
Local install packages Better debugging Built-in exceptions Adding site specific customizations Constants ...
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Ansible Snippets
Bootstraping Execution order Create a file without external template Creating inventory script Writing ansible modules in sh ...
New NacoWiki
Release new version (3.2.1) of NacoWiki. The following changes are included: Added document properties Added opts.yaml API improvements ...
Migrated to NacoWiki Albatros
This edition marks the migration of my Blog from Pelican to NacoWiki Albatros. This is a mostly transparent change. I wrote Albatros specifically to migrate this web site from Pelican to a php based markdown implementation. As such, it uses a slightly modified version of the Pelican theme. ...
CSS Tips
Style editor Sending query string with PHP Position sticky Flexbox and Grid ...
Desktop Environments 2023
Around April 2023, I decided to look for a new Linux Desktop Environment for my personal void linux. So I tried these distros: lxqt: This is the one I eventually chose to switch to. I liked it that it was very small and light, and very modular, almost like a kit that you assemble yourself. Because I have thinking for some time that I would like to make my ...
NacoWiki
A few months ago I extensibly modify picowiki and creeated NanoWiki. After using NanoWiki for a few months, the code became somewhat of an spaghetti mess. This has to do that picowiki was designed as a single file, single class application with Plugin extension. Since every change went to a single class this quickly became difficult to manage. Additionally, I realized that "NanoWiki" was not a very good name as this ...
Nanowiki
NanoWiki is a Wiki implementation based on picowiki. I have been using SimpleNote for a number of years. It works pretty well but somehow I was looking for: Ability to include and render nice asciiart pictures Organizes articles in a folder structure. ...
Migration to Pelican
Finally got fedup with github pages and its jekyll static site generator. Essentially things would break without any particular reason and there would be nearly no way to tell what went wrong. I addition, it was not easy to test changes before making them public. So I switched to pelican, essentially because it was ...
My tale of IPv6 blues
My ISP provider is KPN. They recently enabled IPv6 in my street. I was using before a IPv6 Tunnel Broker, starting with SixXS and after they went out, with Hurricane Electric. So naturally, I decided to switch to KPN's native IPv6 service. They provide a /64 prefix, which is reasonable. Would be better ...
Secure erase of disc drives
This article is about erasing disc drives securely. Specially for SSD drives, writing zeros or random data to discs is not good enough and counterproductive. One way to do secure erase (for disposal) is to begin with an encrypted disc. However, after the fact the following options are possible: ATA Secure Erase ...
Set your google account to automatically delete
Want to share your family photos after your death, but take your search history to the grave? All that and more is possible with Google's Inactive Account Manager. How You Can Control Your Information After Death It's not nice to think about, but one day, you will die, along with the keys to your online kingdom. And these days, those online accounts ...
Open Source Alternatives to Visio
Need to create diagrams, flowcharts, circuits, or other kinds of entity-relationship models? Microsoft Visio is without a doubt the best software for that, but that doesn't mean it's the best choice for you. Visio may be the industry standard in the corporate world, but it comes with a huge drawback: it's expensive ($299 for the standard ...
Managing our personal finances
During my last vacation I wanted to move how we manage our personal finances away from the ad-hoc spreadsheet that we had been using for the past few years. I envisioned something server side, so I wouldn't need to add software on my wife's computer. And initial quick run through of server side software did not yield anything that interested me. In general I could only find full accounting applications, which ...
undup
So, after a long while, I wrote a new C language program. As usual, the same things that I dislike about C programming popped up, specifically the need for low level data structures and manual memory management. I did learn some new things: ...
Driving Continuous Integration from Git
Testing, code coverage, style enforcement are all check-in and merge requirements that can be automated and driven from Git. If you're among the rising number of Git users out there, you're in luck: You can automate pieces of your development workflow with Git hooks. Hooks are a native Git mechanism for firing off custom scripts before or after certain operations such as commit, merge, applypatch, ...
Media Tips
This is an article about different media (and more specifically) video files can be manipulated. This is just for historical purposes as now almost everything can be done using ffmpeg and the right options. libmp4v2 contains: ...
Program Documentation
So these are my ideas on how to document projects. There are three types of documentation types: User guides Targetted and end-users of the software and people who want a brief overview. Man pages Again targetted at end-users but also sysadmins. Usually to address a specific feature. ...
Git recipes
Sharing repositories setting git email per repository A collection of small useful recipes for using with Git. ...
Issue Tracker
Use DVCS as backend (GIT) Output html markdown Prefer perl/python Mostly RO so to avoid merge conflicts. ...
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