How to automate building and deployment of Hugo websites to GitHub Pages using Travis CI, triggered by pushing to the Git repository.
April 2017
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Snapchat is going public, and there is lots of interesting data in the IPO filing.
February 2017
This post explains how to use highlight.js for syntax highlighting in a Vue.js application, allowing highlighting both on creation of an element as well as on updates to the source-code, using a simple v-highlightjs directive.
February 2017
TypeScript 2.1 introduced a number of breaking changes, among them that “Extending built-ins like Error, Array, and Map may no longer work”.
For a subclass like the following:
class FooError extends …
January 2017
The Chaos Computer Congress is Europe’s leading hacker and tech community conference, taking place annualy in Hamburg, Germany between Christmas and New Year. This year was the 33rd time (hence 33C3), …
January 2017
Peter Norvig, the famous American computer scientist and Director of Research at Google Inc., participated in this year’s Advent of Code (a series of small programming puzzles), and shared his …
December 2016
A thread pool is a group of pre-instantiated, idle threads which stand ready to be given work. These are often preferred over instantiating new threads for each task when there is a large number of …
April 2016
A simple guide on installing the latest Qt (currently 5.6) and PyQt5 on Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) and Linux with Python 3.4, inside a virtual environment.
March 2016
Easily find broken hyperlinks in PDF documents with PDFx, a free tool to extract references and metadata from PDFs.
March 2016
Round-up and comparison of several popular and free transactional email services and Mandrill alternatives.
March 2016
This is a simple and effective method how to serve Wordpress pages blazingly fast: produce static HTML files with WP Super Cache, and serve them directly with nginx.
WP Super Cache (on Github) is an …
February 2016
Let's Encrypt is a new certificate authority backed by Mozilla, Akamai, EFF, Facebook and others, which provides free SSL/TLS certificates. This is an overview and comparison of 10 popular clients.
December 2015
In this tutorial we’ll be using py2app to create a standalone OSX application from a Python 2 or 3 source code with a simple Tkinter user interface.
"py2app is a Python setuptools command which will …
November 2015
String encoding and decoding as well as encoding detection can be a headache, more so in Python 2 than in Python 3. Here are two little helpers which are used in PDFx, the PDF metadata and reference …
November 2015
Machine learning algorithms regularly utilize GPUs to parallelize computations, and Amazon AWS GPU Instances provide cheap and on-demand access to capable virtual servers with NVIDIA GPUs.
GPU …
November 2015
Great talk and engaging live coding session “Python Concurrency From the Ground Up” by David Beazley at PyCon 2015! Recommended 47 minutes watch.
A few selected quotes:
The fact that he walked in and …
November 2015
I just released PDFx version 1.0, a Python tool and library to extract metadata and URLs from PDFs, and to automatically download all referenced PDFs. The project is released under the Apache license …
October 2015
This post is about using Retrofit 2.0 (beta) to consume HTTP based APIs.
Retrofit is a great and popular API client library for Java (and by extension also for Android) developed by Square. Here’s a …
October 2015
Another DMCA takedown of one of my Android apps. This time initiated by The New York Times Company for a three year old app titled “NYTimes Article Search”. Instead of having their lawyers send the …
December 2011
Just a year ago Paul Irish and several contributors started working on html5-boilerplate, a popular repository of boilerplate and best practices for creating cross-browser compatible, html5-enabled …
August 2011