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The below sci-fi short is a reply for this writing prompt:
Life is hard for a dirty salvager on this junk planet. If the heat of the desert’s twin suns don’t kill you, the molten rain coming down from the ship graveyard orbiting the planet might. But today …read more
I use Python at work and for private projects. I also aim to write tests for my code, especially recently. And as I usually don’t start from 100% code coverage (TDD is not my game), I at least want to know if the code I just wrote have full …
read moreIt was almost a month ago when I announced the development of Calendar.social. Since then I’m over some interesting and some less interesting stuff; (web) development, after all, is just a recurrence of patterns. Speaking of recurrence, I arrived to a really interesting topic: recurring events.
My initial …
read moreThis is a reaction of mine to a post in which a father talks about an emotional burst he had when his daughter did something nasty. He had hard times processing it, at the end turning his anguish to a blog post. Unfortunately, the post is unavailable since then (i …
read moreI’m a SysAdmin since 1998. Maybe a bit earlier, if you count managing our home computer. This means SysAdmin Day is also celebrating me. However, my Emacs Calendar doesn’t show it for some reason.
The solution is pretty easy:
(add-to-list 'holiday-other-holidays '(holiday-float 7 5 -1 "SysAdmin Day") t …I’m in a team who are developing a Flask-based web application, which uses logging extensively. For a while now it spews out a lot of lines so the need arose to index them in ElasticSearch, and more importantly, to search through them for auditing purposes. This latter user story …
read moreI have recently messed up my Alembic migrations while modifying my SQLAlchemy models. To start with, I didn’t update the auto-generated migration files to name the indexes/foreign keys a name, so Alembic used its own naming scheme. This is not an actual problem until you have to modify …
read moreWhen creating multilingual software, be it on the web, mobile, or desktop, you will eventually fail to mark strings as translatable. I know, I know, we developers are superhuman and never do that, but somehow I stopped trusting myself recently, so I came up with an idea.
Right now I …
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