Dokku makes it very easy to deploy and run simpler web apps. Recently, I had to deploy a slightly more complex web app with multiple non-web worker services talking to each other. It’s surprisingly simple to get make this work. ...
Since Django 4, form rendering with Tailwind can be used to render beautiful forms without using Node or any other packages like django-crispy-forms. All you need is the Tailwind CLI binary and django-widget-tweaks. ...
I recently migrated a Next.js project to Remix in order to improve performance and maintainability. These are 8 reasons why you should and should not use Remix. ...
This year I started consolidating all the major modes by using lsp-mode and apheleia for all the programming language I use. The switch from OCaml’s merlin-mode was surprisingly painless. ...
The Django shell python manage.py shell is a very powerful tool that increases developer productivity if used correctly. With a few lines of configuration, you don’t have to leave the shell anymore to apply code changes. ...
This is the script I am using to deploy a dokkuzied app to Dokku. ...
It hit me that the recent decline of the Google Search result quality is making me a better programmer. Year old habits are changing. The title should be read as “How lack of Google Search is making me a better programmer”. ...
This is how you can selectively install packages from a specific commit or branch. ...
It took me three months and five attempts to fix this issues. Upon reboot two terminal panes and one Emacs instance auto started and I didn’t know why. ...
When I open Emacs to edit a Python project, the first command I run is pyvenv-activate to activate the virtualenv. If I have a Python file open of that project before running pyvenv-activate, flycheck won’t work because I install my development dependencies (which are needed by the checkers) in the local virtualenv. Luckily pyvenv provides a hook that runs whenever a virtualenv was activated. (defun clear-flycheck-auto-disabled-checkers () "Clears any automatically disabled flycheck checkers....
Improving the performance of a website can be hard. Using solid performance analysis tools is a must. ...
I am a native German speaker who reads English articles on a daily basis. Whenever I write an English title myself, I struggle with the correct capitalization. ...
I am happy to announce Schablone. Schablone is a minimal boilerplate project for Django with strong opinions and little options for customization. ...
I am using Emacs with elpy as my Python IDE. Minor issues that appeared lately made me explore other options for developing Python in Emacs. I ended up switching to a custom configuration based on anaconda-mode. ...
Dropbox has some well known issues on Linux which made me look at alternatives. I found an alternative that I am very happy with. ...
Dokku with its Postgres plugin can be used to manage Postgres databases, this includes automated backups. ...
Upgrading NixOS so that it uses a different channel is simple. When you run following command as root: nix-channel --list You should see a list of channels. If you did not touch channels so far, you should see this: nixos https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-21.05 By running the following command (as root): nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/<channel version> nixos you will remove the 21.05 channel and replace it with <channel version>. To apply the change, you need to run following command:...
Following the NixOS installation guide I ended up with a setup using a stable NixOS channel that just keeps giving. Sometimes however, it can be necessary to include packages from an unstable channel. ...
Following the NixOS installation guide I ended up with a setup using a stable NixOS channel that just keeps giving. Sometimes however, it can be necessary to include packages from an unstable channel. ...
On Linux you can set attributes to ignore files for syncing. ...