It hit me that the recent decline of Google Search result quality is making me a better programmer. Years-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 issue. 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.
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 few 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.
Following the NixOS installation guide I ended up with a setup using a stable NixOS channel that just keeps giving.
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
3 months ago I installed NixOS, i3wm and XFCE on my new Thinkpad T14 (1st Gen). It is the 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 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.
Together with my SO we built hoarddit.com, a website that helps everyone to discover art. It allows you to virtually trade art pieces.
This post describes how we spent our innovation points and why hoarddit is not an NFT.
In order to play Anno 1404 on Proton, follow these steps.