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. ...
On Linux you can set attributes to ignore files for syncing. ...
If you use urxvt to connect to your EC2 instance through Elastic Beanstalk, running eb ssh will give you a shell where autocomplete does not work. Fix that by running TERM='xterm-256color' eb ssh
3 months ago I installed NixOS, i3wm and XFCE on my new Thinkpad T14 (1st Gen). It is my main machine that I use every day. In this blog post I summarize my experience with this setup. ...
I would like to give a quick shout out to Aaron Aron and his blog aronwith1a.com. This has nothing to do with the fact that I get to use the tags haskell, maths and agda. ...
You sit in a cozy coffee place and you just finished your coffee. You are still not connected to the WiFi while the MacBooks and Surface devices around you have sent and received Gigabytes of data since you sat down. You are a Linux user. ...
With following command you can print a random string of a certain length on Linux. tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 </dev/urandom | head -c 32 ; echo '' The string is safe to use in most web contexts such as HTML forms or environment variables.