When developing a web application of non-trivial size it can be challenging to find the relevant source file or class that is responsible for something you see on a web page.
PyCharm (currently
my main development environment for python) provides a pycharm:// protocol
handler, which makes it possible to link …
UPDATE Oct 2019: since the recent v7 repository version of git annex, the problem (and solution) described below are not that relevant anymore. See the largefiles feature for example.
For managing my photo (and video) collection, which is too large to fit on my laptop drive, I use Git Annex …
CSV (comma separated values) files are to data formats what FAT32 is to file systems: everybody loves to hate them, but you can't find a more widely supported alternative.
For example, viewing CSV files in a command line environment is typically pretty annoying. You can't make much from this, right …
When porting my blog from Drupal to Pelican, I wanted to preserve
my clean URLs as much as possible for old blog entries.
In Pelican you typically achieve this by making sure each article has
a slug metadata entry with the desired clean URL and setting up
_SAVE_AS …
Here's a quick (and dirty?) trick to create a tag cloud in Pelican without plugins and minimal amount of code.
Define a jinja filter in pelicanconf.py to convert a tag's article count
to a CSS font-size value. For example like this:
import math
JINJA_FILTERS = {
'count_to_font_size …For several years my blog was powered by Drupal. At the time (when I studied and worked in academia) I was an active Drupal developer, so that was a logical choice, and Drupal served me well.
When occupation and family situation changed however, my Drupal interest and involvement slowly decreased …
Just a quick note that I whipped up a PhantomJS script to capture screenshots of Reveal.js powered slide show slides.
Even if you are in an automated context, not using a typical browser, fetching the data/webpage from an URL is easy. There are command line tools like wget and curl, and every programming library has its share of libraries to build on.
But what if you need the HTML …
A colleague of mine at work has set up his IDE to clean up all trailing whitespace on save. Nothing wrong with that, except that he is the only one, which very often means in practice that his commits are sprinkled with fixes of other people's whitespace mixups. Because of …