Blog archive - Peterbe.com

July, 2022: Comparing compression commands with hyperfine Bash, MacOSX, Linux
May, 2022: How to know if a PR has auto-merge enabled in a GitHub Action workflow GitHub; Auto-merge GitHub pull requests based on "partial required checks" GitHub
April, 2022: How to sort case insensitively with empty strings last in Django Django, Python, PostgreSQL
March, 2022: How to close a HTTP GET request in Python before the end Python; Introducing docsQL Web development, GitHub, JavaScript
February, 2022: Preemptive grocery shopping list item suggestions That's Groce!; Tips and tricks to make you a GitHub Actions power-user GitHub; Make your NextJS site 10-100x faster with Express caching React, Node, Nginx, JavaScript; Command-Enter to submit a form when focus is inside textarea with React (TypeScript) 1 comment React
December, 2021: My site's now NextJS - And I (almost) regret it already 5 comments React, Django, Node, JavaScript; Sort a JavaScript array by some boolean operation 2 comments JavaScript; Brotli compression quality comparison in the real world 2 comments Node, JavaScript
October, 2021: How to string pad a string in Python with a variable 1 comment Python
September, 2021: How to bulk-insert Firestore documents in a Firebase Cloud function 1 comment Node, Firebase, JavaScript; I'm a GitHubber now 1 comment Work, GitHub; TypeScript generic async function wrapper function JavaScript; From photo of ingredients, to your shopping list Web development, That's Groce!, Firebase; TypeScript function keyword arguments like Python Python, JavaScript; How to use letsencrypt-acme-challenge.conf in Nginx Nginx; How I upload Firebase images optimized JavaScript, Web development, Firebase
August, 2021: 10 years a Mozillian, always a Mozillian 2 comments Web development, Mozilla, MDN; How to fadeIn and fadeOut like jQuery but with Cash JavaScript; Shut the door! How to automate getting the kids to close the door Family; How to submit a form with Playwright JavaScript
July, 2021: How to install Python Poetry in GitHub Actions in MUCH faster way Python
June, 2021: An effective and immutable way to turn two Python lists into one 7 comments Python; How to get all of MDN Web Docs running locally Web development, MDN
May, 2021: The correct way to index data into Elasticsearch with (Python) elasticsearch-dsl Python, MDN, Elasticsearch; What English stop words overlap with JavaScript reserved keywords? JavaScript, MDN
April, 2021: My contribution to 2021 Earth Day: optimizing some bad favicons on MDN Web Docs Web development, MDN
March, 2021: How to simulate slow lazy chunk-loading in React React, JavaScript; Umlauts (non-ascii characters) with git on macOS Python, MacOSX; In JavaScript (Node) which is fastest, generator function or a big array function? Node, JavaScript
February, 2021: How MDN's site-search works 3 comments Web development, Django, Python, MDN, Elasticsearch; What's lighter than ExpressJS? Node, JavaScript; The best and simplest way to parse an RSS feed in Node Node, JavaScript; Sneaky block-scoping variables in JavaScript that eslint can't even detect JavaScript; useSearchParams as a React global state manager React, JavaScript
January, 2021: fastest way to turn HTML into text in Python 3 comments Python
December, 2020: Gcm - git checkout master or main 1 comment Python; sharp vs. jimp - Node libraries to make thumbnail images 1 comment Node, JavaScript, Firebase; downloadAndResize - Firebase Cloud Function to serve thumbnails Web development, That's Groce!, Node, JavaScript
November, 2020: Default food shopping items isn't for everyone That's Groce!; Popularity contest for your grocery list Web development, Mobile, That's Groce!
October, 2020: Generating random avatar images in Django/Python 1 comment Web development, Django, Python; That's Groce! Web development, Mobile, Preact, That's Groce!, Firebase
September, 2020: Progressive CSS rendering with or without data URLs Web development, Web Performance, JavaScript; Quick comparison between sass and node-sass 2 comments Node, JavaScript; Lazy-load Firebase Firestore and Firebase Authentication in Preact Web development, Web Performance, JavaScript, Preact
August, 2020: <datalist> looks great on mobile devices Web development, Mobile
July, 2020: Test if two URLs are "equal" in JavaScript 2 comments JavaScript
June, 2020: findMatchesInText - Find line and column of matches in a text, in JavaScript Node, JavaScript; hashin 0.15.0 now copes nicely with under_scores Python; ./bin/huey-isnt-running.sh - A bash script to prevent lurking ghosts Python, Linux, Bash
May, 2020: Check your email addresses in Python, as a whole Python, MDN; Benchmark compare Highlight.js vs. Prism Node, JavaScript; Throw JavaScript errors with extra information Node, JavaScript
April, 2020: How to use minimalcss without a server Web development, Node, JavaScript; How post JSON with curl to an Express app 1 comment Node, JavaScript; How I added brotli_static to nginx 1.17 in Ubuntu (Eoan Ermine) 19.10 Nginx, Linux; How to install Node 12 on Ubuntu (Eoan Ermine) 19.10 Node, Linux
February, 2020: Build pyenv Python versions on macOS Catalina 10.15 9 comments Python, MacOSX; redirect-chain - Getting a comfortable insight input URL redirects history Python; How to resolve a git conflict in poetry.lock 3 comments Python; "ld: library not found for -lssl" trying to install mysqlclient in Python on macOS 1 comment Python, MacOSX; Performance of truth checking a JavaScript object Node, JavaScript
January, 2020: How to pad/fill a string by a variable in Python using f-strings 9 comments Python; JavaScript destructuring like Python kwargs with defaults 1 comment Python, JavaScript; How depend on a local Node package without npmjs.com JavaScript; How to have default/initial values in a Django form that is bound and rendered 10 comments Web development, Django, Python; How to split a block of HTML with Cheerio in NodeJS 2 comments Node, JavaScript
December, 2019: A Python and Preact app deployed on Heroku 2 comments Web development, Django, Python, Docker, JavaScript
November, 2019: MDN Documents Size Tree Map MDN, Web development
October, 2019: Avoid async when all you have is (SSD) disk I/O in NodeJS Node, JavaScript
September, 2019: Update to speed comparison for Redis vs PostgreSQL storing blobs of JSON 2 comments Redis, Nginx, Web Performance, Python, Django, PostgreSQL; How much faster is Redis at storing a blob of JSON compared to PostgreSQL? 65 comments Python, PostgreSQL, Redis; uwsgi weirdness with --http 1 comment Python, Linux; Fastest Python function to slugify a string 3 comments Python
August, 2019: NodeJS fs walk() or glob or fast-glob 3 comments JavaScript; Train your own spell corrector with TextBlob Python; function expandFiles(directoriesPatternsOrFiles) JavaScript
July, 2019: A React vs. Preact case study for a widget Web development, React, Web Performance, JavaScript; Find out all localStorage keys and their value sizes Web development, JavaScript; SongSearch autocomplete rate now 2+ per second Django, Python, Nginx, Redis
June, 2019: From jQuery to Cash 4 comments Web development, JavaScript; Build an XML sitemap of XML sitemaps Django, Python; Generate a random IP address in Python Django, Python
May, 2019: How I simulate a CDN with Nginx 1 comment Python, Nginx; WebSockets vs. XHR 2019 Web development, Web Performance, JavaScript
April, 2019: KeyCDN vs AWS CloudFront 3 comments Web development, Web Performance; I think I might put my whole site behind a CDN Web development, Nginx, Web Performance; Whatsdeployed rewritten in React Web development, Python, React, JavaScript; KeyCDN vs. DigitalOcean Nginx Web development, Nginx, Web Performance; Optimize inlined SVG on developer.mozilla.org Web development, Web Performance
March, 2019: Best way to count distinct indexed things in PostgreSQL 3 comments Django, PostgreSQL; Format numbers with numberWithCommas() or Number.toLocaleString() 1 comment Web development, JavaScript
February, 2019: Django ORM optimization story on selecting the least possible 16 comments Web development, Django, Python, PostgreSQL; Experimenting with Nginx worker_processes Web development, Nginx, MacOSX, Linux; create-react-app, SCSS, and Bulmaswatch 2 comments Web development, React, JavaScript; Optimize DOM selector lookups by pre-warming by selectors' parents Web development, Node, Web Performance, JavaScript; Hooks tip! Avoid infinite recursion in React.useEffect() 1 comment React, JavaScript; Displaying fetch() errors and unwanted responses in React Web development, React, JavaScript; Format thousands in Python 8 comments Python
January, 2019: hashin 0.14.5 and canonical pip hashes Python; How to encrypt a file with Emacs on macOS (ccrypt) MacOSX, Linux; variable_cache_control - Django view decorator to set max_age in runtime Django, Python; An example of using Immer to handle nested objects in React state 1 comment React, JavaScript; Use vars() to send an argparse Namespace into a function in Python Python; Number.prototype.toString() is incredibly useful to display numbers JavaScript
December, 2018: Concurrent download with hashin without --update-all Web development, Python; elapsed function in bash to print how long things take MacOSX, Linux; How I performance test PostgreSQL locally on macOS 2 comments Web development, MacOSX, PostgreSQL
November, 2018: hashin 0.14.0 with --update-all and a bunch of other features Python, Linux; How to JSON schema validate 10x (or 100x) faster in Python 9 comments Python; React.memo instead of React.PureComponent JavaScript, React
October, 2018: React 16.6 with Suspense and lazy loading components with react-router-dom 7 comments Web development, JavaScript, React; How much HTML is too much for optimal web performance 4 comments Web development, Web Performance; Switching from AWS S3 (boto3) to Google Cloud Storage (google-cloud-storage) in Python 1 comment Python; Fancy linkifying of text with Bleach and domain checks (with Python) 2 comments Python, Web development; The ideal number of workers in Jest Python, React; Inline scripts in create-react-app 2.0 and CSP hashes Web development, JavaScript, React; An awesome snippet to web performance test a page programmatically Web development, JavaScript, Web Performance
September, 2018: Comparing KeyCDN and DigitalOcean's new Spaces CDN 2 comments Web development; Merge two arrays without duplicates in JavaScript JavaScript; A darn good search filter function in JavaScript 8 comments Web development, JavaScript
August, 2018: Replace an item in an array, by number, without mutation in JavaScript (ES6) 1 comment JavaScript; django-pipeline and Zopfli Python, Web development, Django; Django lock decorator with django-redis 4 comments Python, Web development, Django, Redis; django-html-validator now supports Django 2.x Python, Web development, Django; Quick dog-piling (aka stampeding herd) URL stresstest Python; HTMLMinifier in use on this blog now 3 comments Web development, JavaScript, Web Performance
June, 2018: To defer or to async JavaScript tags. That's the question. Web development, JavaScript, Web Performance; A good Django view function cache decorator for http.JsonResponse Python, Web development, Django; The best grep tool in the world; ripgrep 3 comments Linux, Web development, MacOSX; How to unset aliases set by Oh My Zsh 3 comments Linux, MacOSX; How to NOT start two servers on the same port 2 comments Linux, Web development; GeneratorExit - How to clean up after the last yield in Python 7 comments Python
May, 2018: Writing a custom Datadog reporter using the Python API 2 comments Python; To CDN assets or just HTTP/2 3 comments Web development, JavaScript, Web Performance; Rust > Go > Python ...to parse millions of dates in CSV files 10 comments Python; Webpack Bundle Analyzer for create-react-app JavaScript, React; Always return namespaces in Django REST Framework 1 comment Python, Django; How I found out where a bash alias was set up Linux; Real minimal example of going from setState to MobX JavaScript, React; gtop is best Linux, MacOSX, JavaScript; Fastest Python datetime parser Python
April, 2018: The impressive first-meaningful-paint improvement of using minimalcss 3 comments Web development, JavaScript; Best EXPLAIN ANALYZE benchmark script Python, PostgreSQL; Efficient many-to-many field lookup in Django REST Framework 1 comment Python, Django, PostgreSQL
March, 2018: hashin 0.12.0 is much much faster Python; Worlds simplest web scraper bot in Python 1 comment Python; filterToQueryString - JavaScript function to turn current filter into a query string 1 comment Web development, JavaScript, React; Now using minimalcss Python, Web development, JavaScript, Node; Docker gotcha with building a Dockerfile in sub directory 1 comment Docker; How to throttle AND debounce an autocomplete input in React 18 comments Web development, JavaScript, React
February, 2018: csso and django-pipeline Python, Django, JavaScript; Items function in JavaScript for looping over dictionaries like Python 1 comment JavaScript, React; Run something forever in bash until you want to stop it 6 comments Linux; Be very careful with your add_header in Nginx! You might make your site insecure 17 comments Linux, Web development, Nginx; Show size of every PostgreSQL database you have PostgreSQL; Component, component function or plain function in React 1 comment React; Convert web page to PDF, nicely Misc. links, Web development
January, 2018: Fastest way to unzip a zip file in Python 13 comments Python; Make .local domains NOT slow in macOS 17 comments Linux, MacOSX; Even more aggressively trying to preload your next page load 2 comments Web development, JavaScript; minimalcss 0.6.2 now strips all unused font faces Web development, JavaScript, Node; Conditional aggregation in Django 2.0 4 comments Python, Django, PostgreSQL; When Docker is too slow, use your host 3 comments Web development, Django, MacOSX, Docker; Understanding Redis hash-max-ziplist-entries 1 comment Python, Redis; Display current React version 1 comment JavaScript, React; Whatsdeployed facelift Python, Web development, Mozilla, Docker; How to rotate a video on OSX with ffmpeg 5 comments Linux, MacOSX
December, 2017: Fastest way to uniquify a list in Python >=3.6 7 comments Python; CSS selector simplifier regular expression in JavaScript Web development, JavaScript; Msgpack vs JSON (with gzip) 14 comments Python, Web development; Another win for Tracking Protection in Firefox Web development, Mozilla; How's My WiFi? 2 comments MacOSX, JavaScript, Node; Really simple Django view function timer decorator 2 comments Python, Django; Synonyms with elasticsearch-dsl Python, Web development, PostgreSQL
November, 2017: Unzip benchmark on AWS EC2 c3.large vs c4.large 18 comments Python, Linux, Mozilla, Go; How to create-react-app with Docker 31 comments Linux, Web development, JavaScript, React, Docker; Yet another Docker 'A ha!' moment 2 comments MacOSX, Docker; How to use django-cache-memoize Python, Django; To enable Tracking Protection for performance Web development, Mozilla
October, 2017: django-cache-memoize 3 comments Python, Django; Concurrent Gzip in Python 11 comments Python, Linux, Docker; Simple or fancy UPSERT in PostgreSQL with Django 7 comments Python, Web development, Django, PostgreSQL; "No space left on device" on OSX Docker 13 comments Web development, MacOSX, Docker
September, 2017: cache_memoize - a pretty decent cache decorator for Django 4 comments Python, Web development, Django; Mozilla Symbol Server (aka. Tecken) load testing Python, Web development, Django, Mozilla; A neat trick to zip a git repo with a version number 4 comments Linux, Web development; Ultrafast loading of CSS 3 comments Web development, JavaScript
August, 2017: Fastest way to match a filename's extension in Python 4 comments Python; React lifecycle hooks must-have 1 comment Web development, JavaScript, React; Fastest *local* cache backend possible for Django 11 comments Python, Web development, Django
July, 2017: Find static files defined in django-pipeline but not found Python, Django; Why I'm ditching AdBuff on Songsear.ch Web development; Best YouTube Chefs of 2017 5 comments Misc. links
June, 2017: How to do performance micro benchmarks in Python 7 comments Python; Fastest way to find out if a file exists in S3 (with boto3) 9 comments Python, Web development; Why didn't I know about machma?! Linux, MacOSX, Go
May, 2017: Experimenting with Guetzli Linux, Web development, MacOSX; Fastest Redis configuration for Django 1 comment Python, Linux, Web development, Django
April, 2017: Web Console trick to get all URLs into your clipboard Web development, JavaScript; Best practice with retries with requests 64 comments Python; Public Class Fields saves sooo many keystrokes in React code 1 comment JavaScript, React; A decent Elasticsearch search engine implementation Python, Web development, Django; Fastest cache backend possible for Django 11 comments Python, Linux, Web development
March, 2017: Fastest way to download a file from S3 5 comments Python; More CSS load performance experiments (of a React app) Web development, JavaScript, React; Web Performance Optimization of a Single-Page-App and web fonts Web development, JavaScript, React; Don't forget your sets in Python! 4 comments Python; crontabber now supports locking, both high- and low-level Python, Mozilla, PostgreSQL
February, 2017: Podcasttime.io - How Much Time Do Your Podcasts Take To Listen To? 3 comments Python, Web development, Django, JavaScript, React
January, 2017: Autocompeter is Dead. Long live Autocompeter! Python, Web development, Go; ElasticSearch 5 in Travis-CI Python, Linux, Web development; 10 Reasons I Love create-react-app 4 comments Web development, JavaScript
December, 2016: Using Fanout.io in Django 1 comment Python, Web development, Django, Mozilla, JavaScript
November, 2016: Cope with JSONDecodeError in requests.get().json() in Python 2 and 3 6 comments Python; How to deploy a create-react-app 2 comments Web development, JavaScript, React; Optimization of QuerySet.get() with or without select_related 1 comment Python, Django, PostgreSQL
October, 2016: Django test optimization with no-op PIL engine 6 comments Python, Django
August, 2016: hashin 0.7.0 and multiple packages Python; django-html-validator - now locally, fast! 1 comment Python, Web development, Django; How to identify/classify what language a piece of text is Misc. links, Python; json-schema-reducer Python
June, 2016: Premailer 3.0.0 - classes kept by default Python, Web development; CSS Bloat Comparison Web development, JavaScript
May, 2016: hashin 0.5.0 bug fix Python; Time to do concurrent CPU bound work 3 comments Python, Linux, MacOSX; Decorated Concurrency - Python multiprocessing made really really easy 17 comments Python; gg - A prototype to rule Git, GitHub and Bugzilla Python, Web development; How to track Google Analytics pageviews on non-web requests (with Python) 1 comment Python, Web development, Django, Mozilla
April, 2016: .git/info/exclude, .gitignore and ~/.gitignore_global 4 comments Linux, MacOSX; Don't that this or bind 2 comments JavaScript; 4 different kinds of React component styles 4 comments JavaScript, React
March, 2016: Web performance optimization's dark side Web development
February, 2016: Ctags in Atom on OSX Web development, MacOSX; Whatsdeployed on only one site Python, Web development, Mozilla; How to no-mincss links with django-pipeline 2 comments Python, Web development, Django; Bestest and securest way to handle Python dependencies 1 comment Python
January, 2016: A quicksearch for Bugzilla using Autocompeter Python, Web development, Mozilla, JavaScript; hashin - a replacement for peepin Python; How I installed letsencrypt for Nginx Linux, Web development; Best Atom packages of 2015 7 comments Web development, MacOSX; Advanced Closure Compiler vs UglifyJS2 12 comments JavaScript
December, 2015: Select all relations in PostgreSQL 1 comment PostgreSQL; Headsupper.io Python, Web development, Django, JavaScript, React; Django forms and making datetime inputs localized 2 comments Python, Django
November, 2015: Screenshot-sharing performance comparison 13 comments Web development, MacOSX; Whatsdeployed 4 comments Python, Web development, Mozilla; Chainable catches in a JavaScript promise 6 comments Web development, JavaScript
October, 2015: Weight of your PostgreSQL tables "lumped together" PostgreSQL; How to "onchange" in ReactJS 28 comments JavaScript, React; And bash basics 2 comments Linux, MacOSX; mozjpeg installation and sample 3 comments Linux, Web development, Mozilla; localStorage is not async, but it's FAST! 7 comments Web development, AngularJS, JavaScript; django-pipeline + django-jinja 2 comments Django
September, 2015: Using Lovefield as an AJAX proxy maybe 1 comment Web development, JavaScript; Panasonic Lumix from 2008 or a iPhone 5S from 2014 5 comments Photos; ElasticSearch, snowball analyzer and stop words 1 comment Python; django-semanticui-form 2 comments Python, Django; peepin - a great companion to peep Python; Be careful with using dict() to create a copy 8 comments Python; Examples of mozjpeg savings 5 comments Web development, Mozilla
August, 2015: Crash-stats just became a whole lot faster Web development, Mozilla; How to test if gzip is working on your site or app Linux, Web development; Introducing optisorl Python; News sites suck in terms of performance 5 comments Web development; Worst performing website of the year Web development; Some tips on learning React JavaScript, React
July, 2015: How to log ALL PostgreSQL SQL happening 1 comment MacOSX, PostgreSQL; Visual speed comparison of AngularJS and ReactJS Web development, AngularJS, JavaScript; Premailer.io 3 comments Python, Web development, AngularJS, JavaScript; Find what indentation your files use Python
June, 2015: How I git 1 comment Python, Linux
May, 2015: Python slow-down of exception handling or condition checking Python; premailer 2.9.0 and new rules for `base_url` Python; Use closure for your Django context processors 11 comments Python, Django
April, 2015: Using lazy loading images on Air Mozilla Mozilla, JavaScript; AngularJS $q notify and resolve as a local GET proxy 1 comment AngularJS, JavaScript; Benchmarking Autocompeter Go; Match the whole word in auto complete maybe 2 comments Web development, JavaScript; gulp-header is the best! 1 comment JavaScript; Autocompeter 1.1.8 and smooth typing Go, JavaScript; Autocompeter.com 8 comments Go, JavaScript
March, 2015: Bye bye httpretty. Welcome back good old mock! 4 comments Python; How to slice a rune in Go Go; Air Mozilla on Roku 2 comments Mozilla; Newsletters I enjoy for work Misc. links
February, 2015: Median size of Javascript libs on jsDelivr JavaScript; Best non-cryptographic hashing function in Python (size and speed) 9 comments Python
January, 2015: My favorite Go multiplexer 7 comments Go; Almost premature optimization Python, Web development, Django
December, 2014: AJAX or not 1 comment Web development, AngularJS, JavaScript; Fastest way to take screencaps out of videos 1 comment Linux, Web development, Mozilla; One-way data bindings in AngularJS 1.3 1 comment AngularJS, JavaScript; vipsthumbnail Linux
November, 2014: To then() or to success() in AngularJS 19 comments AngularJS, JavaScript; A "perma search" in AngularJS AngularJS, JavaScript; Why is it important to escape & in href attributes in tags? 13 comments Web development; God, No! by Penn Jillette Books; Bye bye AWS EC2, Hello Digital Ocean Linux; uwsgi and uid 4 comments Python, Linux, Django
October, 2014: Shout-out to eventlog 4 comments Django; Go vs. Python 41 comments Python, Go; localForage vs. XHR 9 comments JavaScript; django-html-validator 2 comments Python, Web development, Django; Premailer on Python 3 1 comment Python
September, 2014: Do you curl a lot to check headers? 6 comments Linux; An AngularJS directive with itself as the attribute 8 comments JavaScript, AngularJS
August, 2014: set -ex - The most useful bash trick of the year 8 comments Linux; Highlighted code syntax in Keynote MacOSX; How I back up all my photos on S3 via Dropbox 4 comments Photos; premailer now with 100% test coverage Python; Aggressively prefetching everything you might click 13 comments This site, Web development, JavaScript; Gzip rules the world of optimization, often 4 comments Python, JavaScript
June, 2014: Common names amongst my Facebook friends 1 comment Wondering; Crontabber 2 comments Python, Mozilla, PostgreSQL; Optimizing MozTrap 3 comments Web development, JavaScript, Mozilla
May, 2014: HTML Tree on Hacker News Web development, JavaScript
April, 2014: Migration of Postgres 9.2 to 9.3 with Homebrew and json_enhancements PostgreSQL; Do you like angular-classy? JavaScript, AngularJS; GitHub PR triage across multiple projects Web development, JavaScript, Mozilla; Wattvision - real-time energy monitoring 2 comments This site; Grymt - because I didn't invent Grunt here 3 comments Python, Web development, JavaScript; COPYFILE_DISABLE and python distutils in python 2.6 Python
March, 2014: Buggy - A sexy Bugzilla offline webapp 1 comment Web development, Mozilla, JavaScript; My favorite YouTube channels 1 comment Misc. links; Github Pull Request Triage tool Web development, AngularJS
February, 2014: Moby Dick (by Herman Melville) Books; What's the average number of domains a website depends on? 10 comments Web development; Advanced live-search with AngularJS 12 comments JavaScript
January, 2014: Sorting mixed type lists in Python 3 4 comments Python
December, 2013: How I do deployments 5 comments Linux, Web development
November, 2013: Wish List Granted on Hacker News report 2 comments Web development; Welcome to the world, Wish List Granted 4 comments Web development, Django; Credit Card formatter in Javascript 27 comments JavaScript; A Django base class for all your Forms 2 comments Django; From Postgres to JSON strings 12 comments Python; All my apps are now running on one EC2 server Linux
October, 2013: Lazy loading below the fold 2 comments Web development, JavaScript; Fastest database for Tornado 9 comments Python, Tornado
September, 2013: 10 years of blogging 2 comments This site
June, 2013: In Python you sort with a tuple 9 comments Python
May, 2013: premailer now excludes pseudo selectors by default Python, Web development; What stumped me about AngularJS 22 comments AngularJS, JavaScript
April, 2013: Registration and sign-in by email verification 10 comments Web development; The Poincaré Conjecture 1 comment Mathematics, Books; Local jed settings 4 comments Linux, MacOSX; Careful with your assertRaises() and inheritance of exceptions 10 comments Python; Recruiters: if you're going to lie, do it properly 9 comments Work, Web development; "Did you mean this domain?" Auto-correction for the browser's address bar 4 comments Mozilla; Never put external Javascript in the <head> 13 comments Web development
March, 2013: premailer now honours specificity Python; HTML whitespace "compression" - don't bother! 4 comments Web development; django-fancy-cache with or without stats 1 comment Python, Django; This site is now 100% inline CSS and no bytes are wasted 8 comments Python, Web development, Django; Welcome to the world django-fancy-cache! 3 comments Python, Django
February, 2013: mincss version 0.8 is much much faster Python; mincss now support PhantomJS 3 comments Python
January, 2013: mincss in action - sample report from the wild 10 comments Python, Web development; mincss "Clears the junk out of your CSS" 30 comments Python, Web development; Free business idea: An app for figuring out the best car for you Wondering; All your images are belong to data uris 12 comments Web development
December, 2012: Gamification for me as a software developer 3 comments Web development; My new web marketing strategy: Begging 13 comments Web development
November, 2012: Introducing: HUGEpic - a web app for showing massive pictures 19 comments Python
October, 2012: Fastest way to thousands-commafy large numbers in Python/PyPy 15 comments Python; hastebinit - quickly paste snippets into hastebin.com 9 comments Python, Linux
September, 2012: How I stopped worrying about IO blocking Tornado 5 comments Tornado; Introducing: League of Friends on Around The World Web development; Real-timify Django with SockJS 4 comments Django, JavaScript, Tornado
August, 2012: django-mongokit now compatible with Django 1.4 Python; US License Plate Spotter (part 2) JavaScript; Beach volleyball bums 2 comments Misc. links
July, 2012: Is Nginx obsolete now that we have Amazon CloudFront? 24 comments Web development; How to use premailer as a command line script 5 comments Python; US License Plate Spotter (part 1) 4 comments JavaScript; Newfound love of @staticmethod in Python 6 comments Python
June, 2012: Difference between $.data('foo') and $.attr('data-foo') in jQuery 9 comments JavaScript; How I deal with deferred image loading in Javascript 3 comments Web development, JavaScript
May, 2012: Postgres collation errors on CITEXT fields when upgrading to 9.1 1 comment Web development; Secs sell! How I cache my entire pages (server-side) 1 comment Python, Django; On the command line no one can hear you screen. Or can they? 2 comments Linux
April, 2012: Are WebSockets faster than AJAX? ...with latency in mind? 25 comments Web development, JavaScript; I'm running pgFouine right now on my server Linux; Secs sell! How frickin' fast this site is! (server side) 2 comments Linux, Web development, Django
March, 2012: Secs sell! How frickin' fast this site is! (client side) 7 comments Web development; IssueTrackerProduct now officially abandoned 6 comments Zope, IssueTrackerProduct; How much faster is Nginx+gunicorn than Apache+mod_wsgi? 9 comments Linux, Django; String length truncation optimization difference in Python 8 comments Python; When to __deepcopy__ classes in Python 9 comments Python
December, 2011: Persistent caching with fire-and-forget updates 4 comments Python, Tornado; Cryptic errors when using django-nose 2 comments Django; Python file with closing automatically 2 comments Python
November, 2011: Integrate BrowserID in a Tornado web app 2 comments Tornado, Mozilla; Trivial but powerful tips for nosetests Python
October, 2011: Going real simple on HTML5 audio Web development, JavaScript; New feature on Too Cool For Me: Everyone I follow Web development
September, 2011: Cateechee golf pictures Misc. links; Too Cool For Me? Tornado; Goodies from tornado-utils - part 3: send_mail Tornado; Goodies from tornado-utils - part 2: tornado_static Tornado; Goodies from tornado-utils - part 1: TestClient Tornado; Reciprocal lesson about gender perspectives Wondering
August, 2011: Title - a javascript snippet to control the document title JavaScript; EmailInput HTML5 friendly for Django 6 comments Django
July, 2011: A blog comment spam solution: Retalition! Wondering; A taste of the Django on inside Mozilla, Sheriffs Duty Django; Comparing Google Closure with UglifyJS 17 comments JavaScript; Slides about Kwissle from yesterdays London Python Dojo Python
June, 2011: Chinese tea sampler pack now on sale Misc. links; Optimization story involving something silly I call "dict+" Python, MongoDB; Launching Kwissle.com 4 comments Tornado; Google teething problems still with duplicated content Misc. links; Test static resources in Django tests 3 comments Django
May, 2011: A script tag's type in HTML5 4 comments JavaScript; maxlength_countdown() - a useful jQuery plugin for showing characters left 6 comments JavaScript
April, 2011: Mocking DBRefs in Mongoose and nodeunit JavaScript, MongoDB; TornadoGists.org - launched and ready! 1 comment Python, Tornado; Strange socket related error with supervisord 7 comments Linux; Google's new Page Speed Online hard to beat 3 comments Web development
March, 2011: Bash tip of the day: ff 2 comments Linux; My AWS CloudFront bill 1 comment This site; MongoUK 2011 - London conference all about MongoDB 2 comments MongoDB; QUnit testing my jQuery Mobile site in full swing 1 comment JavaScript; More productive than Lisp? Really??! Python; To all Zope developers: Does this sound familiar? 2 comments Zope
February, 2011: I just ordered tea from the Min River Tea Farm Misc. links; Eloquent Javascript by Marijn Haverbeke JavaScript; Connecting with psycopg2 without a username and password 12 comments Python; Optimization of getting random rows out of a PostgreSQL in Django 48 comments Django; Nice testimonial about django-static Django; How I profile my Nginx + proxy pass server 3 comments Web development, Python; DoneCal homepage now able to do 10,000 requests/second DoneCal; EditDistanceMatcher - NodeJS script for doing edit distance 1 matching JavaScript; DoneCal on MumbaiMirror 1 comment DoneCal
January, 2011: DoneCal.com international visitors DoneCal; Fastest "boolean SQL queries" possible with Django 5 comments Django; django-static version 1.5 automatically taking care of imported CSS 1 comment Django; RequireJS versus HeadJS 4 comments JavaScript; ToDo apps I gave up on in 2010 4 comments Wondering
December, 2010: ssl_session_cache in Nginx and the ab benchmark 2 comments DoneCal, Linux; Speed of DoneCal API (over 1,400 request/sec) and HTTPS (less than 100 request/sec) 4 comments DoneCal; To code or to pdb in Python 6 comments Python; Page here about DoneCal DoneCal
November, 2010: DoneCal gets a grade A (92) 3 comments DoneCal; Gmail tip: Searching only for attachments; Welcome to the world: DoneCal.com Python, Tornado; jsonpprint - a Python script to format JSON data nicely 5 comments Python; How to book a ticket on the Royal Academy of Music's website 1 comment Web development; Worst Flash site of the year 2010 2 comments Misc. links; Javascript tip: nifty use of the console.log function in Firebug 2 comments JavaScript
October, 2010: In Django, how much faster is it to aggregate? 5 comments Django; How I made my MongoDB based web app 10 times faster 1 comment Python, MongoDB; Why I gave up on JQuery UI's autocomplete 3 comments JavaScript; Nasty JavaScript wart (or rather, don't take shortcuts) JavaScript; My tricks for using AsyncHTTPClient in Tornado 1 comment Python, Tornado; Local Django development with Nginx 15 comments Django
September, 2010: In jQuery, using the :visible selector can be dangerous JavaScript; wkhtmltopdf and font size shrinkage Web development; I just discovered wikiHow Misc. links; Local NodeJS development environment with Nginx JavaScript
August, 2010: Musings about django.contrib.auth.models.User 6 comments Python, Django; Where I live 2 comments
July, 2010: Hosting Django static images with Amazon Cloudfront (CDN) using django-static 4 comments Django
June, 2010: People's reactions to Gates and Buffet's $600 billion challenge Politics; TfL Traffic cameras on a Google map 4 comments Web development
May, 2010: Correction: running Django tests with MongoDB is NOT slow 1 comment Django, MongoDB; Muted conversations in Gmail Misc. links; "Using MongoDB in your Django app - implications and benefits" 10 comments Django; mongoengine vs. django-mongokit 3 comments Python, Django; More on What is "pythonic" 6 comments Python; Review: Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging Django; Making output stay on stdout Linux; Upgrading to Ubuntu Lucid Lynx and downgrading to Python2.4 and Python2.5 5 comments Linux; Fish - most important Python package since distutils Python
April, 2010: My site on the iPad This site; GlobalExpense doesn't work in Firefox Misc. links; Spelling differences between British and American English Misc. links; OpenID, Attribute Exchange, SReg, python-openid and Google 2 comments Web development, Python; Word Whomp solvers love Crosstips 4 comments Misc. links; UPPER vs. ILIKE 4 comments Web development; Who was logged in during a Django exception 5 comments Django; fcgi vs. gunicorn vs. uWSGI 29 comments Python, Django, Linux; Cycling across England on Orange Snapshot Photos
March, 2010: The awesomest way possible to serve your static stuff in Django with Nginx 19 comments Django; Beautiful photos from the Katrina hurricane Misc. links; Speed test between django_mongokit and postgresql_psycopg2 15 comments Python, Django; How and why to use django-mongokit (aka. Django to MongoDB) 11 comments Python, Django; Ubuntu Cola or Ubuntu Linux Linux; Importance of public URLs and how enterprisecarsales.com gets it wrong Web development
February, 2010: How girls/guys rate guys/girls 1 comment Misc. links; Looking for icons? Web development; Last.fm Tube Tags Music; Haiti Earthquake: Who's given what? Politics
January, 2010: Healing Food Reference Misc. links; Guake, not Yakuake or Yeahconsole 4 comments Linux; oplop - How Oplop works, explained in plain English and in technical detail Misc. links; Tip: creating a Xapian database in Python 5 comments Python; Bookmarklet to replace the current domain with localhost:8000 1 comment Web development, Django; LastGraph - visualizing your Last.fm usage Misc. links
December, 2009: China wrecked the Copenhagen deal Politics; Migrating with South on a field that uses auto_now_add=True 5 comments Django; Homer Simpson playing Cry of the Black Birds by Amon Amarth Music; Orphaned Land - Jewish Muslim Metal 9 comments Music
November, 2009: Comparing YUI Compressor and slimmer 5 comments Python; Those Crazy Chinese Django; Mocking os.stat in Python 5 comments Python
October, 2009: "Frank Zappa: The Biography" by Barry Miles 7 comments Books; iPhone push notifications for Twitter with Prowl 1 comment Web development; What makes my website slow? DNS 14 comments This site, Linux; What I hate about PIL and Image in Python 6 comments Python; Messed up columns in Django Admin 1 comment Django; Automatically strip whitespace in Django forms 2 comments Django; A user-friendly TinyMCE config 4 comments Web development
September, 2009: Funnier than Fail Blog: Fail Dogs Misc. links; London Frock Exchange launched Work, Django; My first Twitter app - KungFuPeople.com Python, Kung Fu; Comparing jsmin and slimmer 3 comments Python; Python Code Dojo London - 17 Sep 2009 Python; "Hello John. It's Gordon Brown." Misc. links; 7 of the World's Most Irresponsible Companies 1 comment Misc. links
August, 2009: Cgunit - Online Gallery Misc. links; To sub-select or not sub-select in PostgreSQL Linux; Custom CacheMiddleware that tells Javascript a page is cached in Django 1 comment Django; What a super user-friendly menu!; Table Of Countries Showing Drive Direction Misc. links; The Secret to SEO Search Engine Optimization Web development; Calling all kung fu people - kungfupeople.com Kung Fu, Django; Google Reverse Geocoding vs. GeoNames 3 comments Python; gg - wrapping git-grep Linux; Public calendars on Google Calendar Misc. links; More optimization of Peterbe.com - CSS sprites Web development
July, 2009: The 4-hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris Books; Battery life usage on an iPhone 3G(S) iPhone; gorun.py - Using (py)inotify to run commands when files change Python; Getting uploadify to work 11 comments Web development; setuptools usability - not good, what can be done? 12 comments Python; premailer.py - Transform CSS into line style attributes with lxml.html 9 comments Python; My first iPhone web app - Crosstips iPhone interface 2 comments iPhone
June, 2009: My dislike for booleans and that impact on the Django Admin 8 comments Django
May, 2009: Introducing django-spellcorrector Django; Crossing the world - new feature on Crosstips 1 comment Django; Sequences in PostgreSQL and rolling back transactions Linux; Most unusual letters in English language 11 comments Python; To JSON, Pickle or Marshal in Python 4 comments Python; Never seen before Google Server Error 1 comment
April, 2009: Lizard walk charity for the Claremont project Kung Fu; Crosstips now has sparklines Web development; mailto: considered stupid, especially with ?subject 5 comments Web development; Git + Twitter = Friedcode 10 comments Python, Linux; Lesson learned: Unicodifying request variables in Zope 3 comments Zope; Fujitsu FLEPia Books; TypeRacer Best online game in years Misc. links; Google Calendar, iCalendar Validator but not bloody Apple iCal 2 comments Web development; Simple interface for Crosstips Web development; Shit trailer, awesome way to show it Web development
March, 2009: Head-to-head movie voting Film; British or American English or just English 4 comments Web development; Nginx vs. Squid 3 comments Linux; Too much Python makes Peter a shit Javascript developer JavaScript; Sandisk SSD v/s HDD 2 comments Misc. links
February, 2009: To $('#foo p') or to $('p', $('#foo')) 2 comments JavaScript; Propeller Island City Lodge Orange Room; Founder of Islamic TV station accused of beheading wife Politics; To assert or assertEqual in Python unit testing 17 comments Python; Female body builder picture galore 1 comment; Tough Guy Challenge 2009 - Boston.com; The Albion, Shoreditch 1 comment Web development
January, 2009: How I Made a 1,474-Megapixel Photo Misc. links; Acupuncture works for headaches Misc. links; Rock stars and their parents; Nasty surprise of Django and gettext 3 comments Django; Formatting numeric amounts in Javascript 1 comment JavaScript; Earth, observed - The Big Picture - Boston.com; Hellsongs 2 comments Music; Does Semen Have Antidepressant Properties? Misc. links; Secrets of success from Google co-founder Larry Page; The Big Storm Picture: November 2008; The Jesus story - A serious case of plagiarism 58 comments Misc. links; Ultimate Banksy Art & Graffiti Gallery | WebUrbanist
December, 2008: "Confused and scared"; Round trip with Endeavour - The Big Picture - Boston.com; WUBeee!; Obesity Not Just an American Problem Anymore | Newsweek Health | Newsweek.com Misc. links; YouTube - Nigella's XXXmas 1 comment Misc. links; Towel dog; My first YSlow Grade A (100)! 6 comments Django; DianeDancesToHell.jpg; All My Internet Friends 1 comment; Wing IDE versus Jed 4 comments Linux; Nasty surprise of Django cache 10 comments Django; bool is instance of int in Python 15 comments Python
November, 2008: Finally got rid of the system beep 2 comments Linux; domstripper - A lxml.html test project 1 comment Python; How to unit test the innards of a Django view function 3 comments Django; Why do you vote for the democrats? Politics
October, 2008: Comic-Con 2008 photos Misc. links; Django vs. Java 1 comment Django; Flash advert hell 1 comment Web development; World Plone Day here in London, England Plone; ARTWORDSBOOKSHOPQRSTUVWXYZ Photos; Why bother with MySQL... 2 comments Linux; When '_properties' gets stuck as a persistent attribute 1 comment Zope
September, 2008: V8 < TraceMonkey < SquirrelFish Web development; The importance of env (and how it works with virtualenv) 8 comments Python; The stupidity of 'id' as a variable name (or stupidity of me) 3 comments Python; Why we like Obama, short answer: his speeches 1 comment Politics; Accessible UK Train Timetable 1 comment Misc. links
August, 2008: Kalle Kappner - Opeth and Pain of Salvation piano tribute Music; Weird Asia News Misc. links; Anti-McCain propaganda videos 3 comments Politics; That should last a couple of weeks
July, 2008: Python new-style classes and the super() function 5 comments Python; Use Javascript to prevent spambots 3 comments Web development; The importance of checking in Firefox 4 comments Web development; A great thing about Squid: Calamaris Linux; Interview with Varg Vikernes 10 comments Music
June, 2008: WestIsEast.co.uk launched 1 comment Misc. links; Another brownie point for Django 1 comment Django; Difference between Sweden and UK: renewable energy 1 comment Sweden; Damn lies and benchmark comparing Apache and Nginx 7 comments Linux
May, 2008: zope-memory-readings - Tracking Zope2's memory usage by URL Zope; split_search() - A Python functional for advanced search applications Python
April, 2008: The importance of the TITLE attribute 2 comments Web development; What I like and dislike about Grok 2 comments Zope; Mixing in new-style classes in Zope 2.7 Zope; pwdf - a mix of ls and pwd 2 comments Linux; Lesson learnt with creating DOM element with jQuery 6 comments JavaScript
March, 2008: One thing I hate about Linux: cron 6 comments Linux; How to uninstall nginx with apt 11 comments Linux; Tip: Printer friendly pages with Page Templates in Zope Zope; apple.com/store doesn't work in Firefox (on Linux) 6 comments Web development; Mocking a Python standard library 2 comments Zope; See you at PyCon 2008 Python; File check before delete 1 comment Linux; "Confessions of a College Callgirl" is the new "My Secret Life As A Prostitute" 2 comments Misc. links; hostip.info - Look up the location from an IP 1 comment Linux
February, 2008: CommandLineApp by Doug Hellmann Python; If Americans knew - An interesting insight into the Israeli Palestine conflict 4 comments Politics; Chinese New Year and the Persecution of Falun Gong in China 2 comments Kung Fu; logrotating all my Zope event logs Zope, Linux; Ocado gets customer service right 8 comments Misc. links; Why Django and Grok matters 5 comments Web development
January, 2008: The Official Dilbert Widget Misc. links; "lost my phone :(" 3 comments Mobile; Ugliest e-commerce site of the month - Comfy-Feet 2 comments Misc. links; input/textarea switcher with jQuery 2 comments JavaScript; jQuery and Highslide JS 5 comments JavaScript; The Love Mattress Misc. links; EditArea vs. CodePress 5 comments Web development
December, 2007: String comparison function in Python (alpha) 7 comments Python; isArithmeticExpression() in Javascript JavaScript; Calculator in Python for dummies 17 comments Python; T-Mobile MMS collection 1 comment Web development; WSSE Authentication and Apache 1 comment Python; geopy distance calculation pitfall 1 comment Python; Kill Ugly Radio - A Frank Zappa blog Misc. links
November, 2007: Photos from Fuzhou 2007 Photos; Futurama is back! Misc. links; Note to self about Jeditable JavaScript; Back from Fuzhou, China 3 comments
October, 2007: Now I'm on Last.fm 1 comment Music; DateIndex in Zope doesn't have indexed attributes Zope; Piteå, as experienced by Sam Dunstan Sweden; Islington Kungfu charity fund raiser 2007 1 comment Kung Fu; Bicycle racing in NYC Misc. links; Silk icons 1 comment Web development; Future of Web Apps (quick summary and thoughts) 2 comments Web development
September, 2007: Linux tip: du --max-depth=1 26 comments Linux; Spellcorrector 0.2 3 comments Python; Ugliest site of the month - The Backyard Comedy Club 14 comments Misc. links; Vertically expanding textarea input boxes JavaScript; Nasty human error in Zope ZEO setup Zope; Fun Python error message Zope; What art is ...according to Don Van Vliet 5 comments Art
August, 2007: Not just the bikini event Misc. links; Proud to be a Swedish atheist Sweden; Printer usability problem 1 comment Linux; rfc822() vs. rfc1123_date() Zope; html2plaintext Python script to convert HTML emails to plain text 12 comments Python; YSlow grade A (96) but not with doubts Web development; Interesting lesson learnt on shortcut taking in usability 3 comments Plone
July, 2007: XML header and childNodes Web development; How did Google do that? 6 comments Web development; Worst gigolo sales pitch ever; I'm not a hacker 2 comments This site; Mac OS X's python binary icons 6 comments MacOSX
June, 2007: iPhones review on WSJ Misc. links; Internet Radio - Day of Silence Misc. links; Optional input labels 1 comment Web development; FacebookStatusUpdater Linux; <button> not supported on Pocket IE 3 comments Web development
May, 2007: Playing with filestream_iterator Zope; American foreign policy Politics; Time in the Stone - Emily Young exhibition Art; Cutest server error message ever Misc. links; No, I'm not going to freeze your account 2 comments This site; Miami Vice party photos Photos; What does $456 billion buy? 2 comments Politics; I'm Prolog 1 comment Python
April, 2007: Guess my age with MOBi Zope; Spellcorrector 3 comments Python; Albert Einstein figurine head Family; What's the fattest Subway sandwich? 4 comments Misc. links
March, 2007: ZYB - crap name, brilliant app Mobile; Is peanut butter the proof that evolution doesn't happen? 5 comments Politics; Learning about ATFolder's security Plone; Associative arrays 1 comment Web development; Zope Image to filesystem image 2 comments Zope; Earl Grey or cheap tea, does it really matter? 1 comment Wondering; Kung fu in Twickenham Kung Fu; Aussies in London - What are you doing here? 1 comment Books
February, 2007: JetBlue a good and bad website Web development; Sedo.com - any good? 1 comment; favicon2dots Misc. links; Vista voice recognition and Perl 7 comments Misc. links; Comparing REAL values in PostgreSQL Linux; A Flash interface that doesn't suck 2 comments Web development
January, 2007: Gzip and Slimmer optimization anecdote 7 comments Zope; Canon and Sony Ericsson rule Flickr Photos; New Google Groups design Misc. links; Ugliest site of the month - CSDC 1 comment Misc. links; RememberYourFriends.com running jQuery Web development; Best youtube.com clip of the year? 8 comments Politics; Mesmerizing pencil art Misc. links; Flash 9 on Ubuntu Edgy Eft 4 comments Linux; setAttribute('style', ...) workaround for IE 41 comments JavaScript; Thuas Trägubbar 1 comment Family
December, 2006: Find largest directories with du -k 3 comments Linux; Happy Birthday to me! 2 comments; ImageMagick conversion comparison 3 comments Linux; CSS selector bug in IE? Web development; is is not the same as equal in Python 8 comments Python
November, 2006: Solar power in the north African desert Politics; MUnderscorePatch - tired of typing manage_main? Zope; Entering multilanguage data in Zope; Bloggers not responsible for comment? Politics; Food File Online 1 comment Misc. links; Crazy road in China 1 comment Misc. links; Memory dump blog recovery 4 comments Linux
October, 2006: Oxfordtube's website sucks 2 comments; Sending HTML emails in Zope 3 comments Zope; Catching a carriage return in bash 2 comments Linux; New domain name This site; Ricardo Semler in London Misc. links; Lion + Tiger = Liger 13 comments Misc. links; NES Quiz Misc. links; Zope 3 training blog Zope
September, 2006: Crazy Egg of IssueTrackerProduct.com Web development; Comparing Ruby and PHP Zope; I knew it! You don't have to drink that much water Misc. links; Bill O'Reilly nailed 2 comments Politics; Why did RememberYourFriends fail? 6 comments Web development; Google London Automation Test conference (part II) Work; Google London Automation Test conference Work; Steve Irwin (crocodile hunter) dead 2 comments Misc. links; Redirect stderr into becoming dots in Bash 3 comments Linux
August, 2006: Web 2.0 logo generator 1 comment Misc. links; Madonna's birthday party at the Lounge Lover 23 comments Photos; Fastest way to uniqify a list in Python 92 comments Python; Unicode strings to ASCII ...nicely 20 comments Python; More crappy album covers Misc. links; Sorting transform function in PostgreSQL 5 comments Work
July, 2006: Exploding Dell laptops Misc. links; slim in ruby Linux; slim, a new free web service for white space optimisation 1 comment Python; Spaceinvaders with real people 1 comment Misc. links; Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart 5 comments Music; Nice stats added to RememberYourFriends.com Python; GMapEZ - Google Maps API too complicated for you? 1 comment Web development; Oil, gas and stupidity Politics; Desired Firefox extension 1 comment Web development; DifferenceFinder (aka. humanreadablediff.py) 4 comments Python
June, 2006: RememberYourFriends.com beta version 4 comments Web development; Brick Lane market 3 comments Misc. links; Tekken with Actual Humans 2 comments Kung Fu; Wanna be my flatmate? 3 comments; Pleonasm Misc. links; Animator vs. Animation 1 comment Misc. links; TinyMCE + Zope = ZTinyMCE 8 comments Zope
May, 2006: Weird spam? Or just a weird girl? 4 comments Wondering; Geeking with tags file for Jed Python, Linux; isInt() JavaScript function 23 comments Web development; SVN + ./todo + crontab 1 comment Linux; Pixoh.com and Instant Domain Search Misc. links; Watford kung fu club 2 comments Kung Fu; Mobile-review.com 3 comments Misc. links
April, 2006: Private functions in Javascript? 3 comments Web development, Python; type - Writing shell scripts 1 comment Linux; Helpdeskshow - a quick review IssueTrackerProduct; Interesting float/int casting in Python 21 comments Python; Best bicycle locks 1 comment Misc. links; Date formatting in Python or in PostgreSQL (part II) Python; Careful when dealing with options in IE 2 comments Web development; Case insensitive list remove call (part II) 1 comment Python; Case insensitive list remove call 13 comments Python; Shark kayak 19 comments Misc. links
March, 2006: Merrill Lynch's f**ked up website 3 comments Web development; Teach me about OCR Linux; To br / or not to br/ 1 comment Web development; Annoying Safari just ate my blog 6 comments MacOSX; Kung fu in East London with Shkar 11 comments Kung Fu; Carbon XEmacs installed MacOSX; Quick PostgreSQL optimization story 1 comment Work; Squeezebox + Pandora 3 comments Misc. links; parentElementsByTagName(doc, tagname, classname) 3 comments Web development; tightVNC and Chicken of the VNC MacOSX; Why Linux is better Linux
February, 2006: Martial Arts by Pen Rance Kung Fu, Books; Apple Store or Micro Anvika 1 comment; Dynamic image replacement technique 6 comments Web development, Python; Google and Python code 14 comments Python; CSSViewer - new promising Firefox Extension Web development; waiting for your guidance 2 comments; Angry arabs 1 comment Politics; How to fold t-shirts, with a "machine" Misc. links; Jed Tags with ntags (for dummies) 2 comments Linux; Geeking with Eterm and Tkinter Linux; tempfile in Python standard library 7 comments Python; Sexy furniture 3 comments Misc. links; Size comparison of Zope3, Django and TurboGears 10 comments Python; Setting security declarations to Zope classes 5 comments Python, Zope
January, 2006: ReCSS a tool to reload the CSS without reloading the whole page 1 comment Web development; Northern light photos Photos; Photos from FWC China 2005 Photos, This site; IssueTrackerProduct featured on Ajaxian.com IssueTrackerProduct; Bad spelling a good thing? 2 comments This site; Are you a web developer? Then VisiBone is for you Web development; Who do you ping? 9 comments Linux; Hasselblad's 39 megapixel digital camera 2 comments Misc. links; Strange language bug in Windows XP 1 comment Misc. links; An idea for a better timesheet tracker 4 comments Wondering, Work; My new years resolution 2006 1 comment Wondering; Don't put title in a <link> tag 3 comments Web development; Ask Yahoo "What state do the Simpsons live in?" 795 comments Misc. links; Back from China
December, 2005: Off to holiday in China; Emacs on the Palm OS Mobile; Geek entrepreneurs' reading list 1 comment Books; ALTER TABLE patch Work; iWipe - toilet paper and a Mac 2 comments Misc. links; have or has? 2 comments Wondering; DOM Scripting Books
November, 2005: "Groups" search on Google Politics; CSS code of del.icio.us 1 comment Web development; Yahoo! Inbound Links API Python; The Search Engine Experiment Misc. links; Islington Knuckle Walk 1 comment Kung Fu; Mvbackupfiles - a script to "delete" back autosaved backup files 1 comment Linux; createElement('a') with a javascript href 22 comments Web development; Major performance fix on file searches Zope, IssueTrackerProduct; Old School Kung Fu Kung Fu; Filename splitter 4 comments Python, Zope; Pandora Update Music; MyMcDiet.com Kevin O'Connor's fast food diet 15 comments Misc. links; "Clever" date formatting accessibility 14 comments Python, Zope; Active Reactor watches 1 comment Misc. links; Screencasting the unix way with Python Linux; Screencasting test IssueTrackerProduct; Whitelist blacklist logic 7 comments Python; www aliases set up 1 comment This site
October, 2005: Using MD5 to check equality between files 11 comments Python; Shane's Bit Mountain Linux; Pandora (followup) Neat error messaging Misc. links; Pandora - a great Internet radio Music; "Increment numbers in a string" 2 comments Python; Playing with Reverend Bayesian Python; Furious and deprived by 'rm *' 2 comments Linux; table-layout: fixed 1 comment Web development; Dream: python bindings for squidclient 3 comments Python, This site; Best Image Replacement Technique guide Web development; Gmail catching up with the IssueTrackerProduct Web development; Wanted: good Javascript for handling key events Web development; Toggle Zope's debug mode Zope
September, 2005: Jed looking like Emacs Linux; R.I.P Palm Treo Politics; Pimp my COREBlog 5 comments Zope; Ruby and Python benchmarked 27 comments Python; Smurl from Python 1 comment Python; Python regular expression tester 1 comment Python; 'Cache-Control' or Expires 3 comments Zope; Misstake or hidden Nazi message? 6 comments Politics; firstChild.nodeValue vs. innerHTML 15 comments Web development; Announcing Smurl - a free URL compressor 12 comments Zope; Amazon bug in shopping basket 2 comments Web development; Random ID generator for Zope Python
August, 2005: British English for Americans 1 comment Misc. links; More street 3D drawings Misc. links; Insect photography 7 comments Photos; An ideal company blog tool 4 comments Work; Back from Djerba, Tunisia 1 comment; Ricardo Semler's Semco English website 11 comments Misc. links; Dream Theater - Octavarium 1 comment Music; Button tag in bloody Internet Explorer 135 comments Web development; Worst album covers (updated) Misc. links; Jealous of Google stemming 1 comment Zope; AJAX seach on 404 error pages Web development
July, 2005: Just Oracle and IBM? Linux; Release package file size 1 comment IssueTrackerProduct; \B in Python regular expressions Python; London bus 26 from Hackney; Interesting NHS error message 2 comments Web development; Kung Fu in Clapham with Richard 2 comments Kung Fu; SmartDict - a smart 'dict' wrapper 9 comments Python; Rent a chest Misc. links; Drop down selects that learn 4 comments Web development; Unaffected by the London blasts 1 comment; Lisp compared to Python 1 comment Python; Falling mannequin animation 1 comment Misc. links; Module dependencies of IssueTracker.py IssueTrackerProduct
June, 2005: ztar - my wrapper on tar -z 8 comments Python, Linux; Zope in DevelopmentMode Zope; AJAX accelerated web widgets 5 comments IssueTrackerProduct; Zope compared to PHP 2 comments Zope; Software Patents in the EU (Stallman's explaination) 1 comment Politics; Authentic Locations Misc. links; Regular Expressions in Javascript cheat sheet Web development; Scandinavian Airlines phone booking 16 comments Misc. links; \b in Python regular expressions 3 comments Python; My trade salary has gone down, apparently 1 comment Work; chmod files differently to directories 10 comments Linux; Good design examples for a non-blog 1 comment IssueTrackerProduct; window.onload from before 10 comments Web development; I'm back! Peterbe.com has been renewed 1 comment This site
May, 2005: Sound of different languages 1 comment Misc. links; Kittenwar a clever way of voting 5 comments Misc. links; Cheeky Explore (Dictionary of Everything) 1 comment Politics; The Brick Testament 2 comments Misc. links; MOBi phonebook into Excel Work; Plone.org calls it Issue Tracker 3 comments Zope; Susan Senator's book Misc. links; List of casts in PostgreSQL Linux; Kingdom of Crap 3 comments Film; London Review of Personals Misc. links; Jacobian highlighter 2 comments Python
April, 2005: Better select boxes for issue tracker 5 comments Web development; The Geeks Revenge Misc. links; TAL here hack in Plone 1 comment Plone; Gmail shortcuts 4 comments Linux; Grep results expanded 5 comments Python, Linux; Serious flaw in Bose headphones 7 comments Music; pg_class to check if table exists 4 comments Linux; Google blogs about their Maps Misc. links; "Can you help me about ZOPE?" 2 comments Zope; Nanagram, anagram your name 1 comment Misc. links; Noise reduction headphones 1 comment Work; Interior Octopus 25 comments Photos; Find print statements in Python code 6 comments Python, Linux; Your webpage in Lynx Web development; Control comment spam 1 comment Python; Python Cookbook arrived 2 comments Books; callable Python objects 8 comments Python
March, 2005: Ugly one-liner to debug an object in Zope 2 comments Zope; Searching for the obvious Wondering; More amazing sidewalk art Misc. links; Read in passwords with bash 37 comments Linux; Add links to a text (take III) Python; U.S. memory championship Misc. links; Fork Art, up yours Uri Geller Misc. links; Adminspotting t-shirts 1 comment Misc. links; Best Hubbles Space Telescope Images Misc. links; Swedish holidays explained 2 comments Sweden; All the Seinfeld quotes you can eat Misc. links; Good usage of drop-downs Web development; Suspend and resume output in terminal 6 comments Linux; Encrypted files in Emacs Linux, MacOSX
February, 2005: File attachment widget with Javascript 9 comments Web development; BaconWhores ha! Misc. links; Audioscrobbler indexes your MP3 usage Misc. links; Debian popular in Sweden Sweden; Optimize Plone.org with slimmer.py 13 comments Python; Python optimization anecdote 4 comments Python; Gmail account giveaway 45 comments Misc. links; Combining MOBi and EconoAccount 1 comment Zope; How to deal with tele-marketing calls 1 comment Misc. links; Good posture website Web development
January, 2005: "Snowy Tribute to Calvin & Hobbes" Misc. links; Top movie deaths Misc. links; Google Video (beta) Misc. links; Google is blind 6 comments Web development; niceboolean() - converts what you say to what you mean 6 comments Python; parametrize_url() adding parameters to URLs 4 comments Python; Gmail spam filter 7 comments; My favorite CSS Zen Garden design Web development; Running simple SQL commands on the command line 2 comments Python
December, 2004: Valuble site: Commonly Confused Characters Web development; Infinitely deep illustration 1 comment Misc. links; Merry Christmas; The problem with CSS 1 comment Web development; __call__ folderish Zope objects Zope; Ugliest site of the month, plus44.com 2 comments Web development; Python package path when executed elsewhere 3 comments Python; Happy Birthday to me! Wondering; Do you know what safe txt is? Misc. links; Kung fu competition photos from Sutton 1 comment Photos; Graduation photos Photos; CorpCalendar review on ZopeMag.com Zope
November, 2004: HTML entity fixer 9 comments Python; Hacking and martial arts 1 comment Kung Fu; Ugliest site of the month, hernia.org 1 comment Web development; Make your settings in .Xdefaults come true 1 comment Linux; Bad Santa Film; Indent text like email clients do Python; Add links to a text (take II) 2 comments Python; XHTML Transitional versus Strict Web development; Add links to a text with URLs 3 comments Web development; Do you know about Firefox?
October, 2004: City & Islington kung fu charity event 1 comment Kung Fu; Urwid - curses-based UI/widget library for Python Python, Linux; Massrenaming with shell and python 5 comments Python, Linux; Bush country Photos; Reindexing AVI films with mplayer 5 comments Film; Time Machine Ballistics Photos; Disable Caps Lock in Linux 30 comments Linux; I'm back and awake! 1 comment This site
September, 2004: Findory Blogory, like Google News Alerts but for blogs 1 comment Web development; Tell me your birthday Wondering
August, 2004: (Idea) A new anti-spam law 3 comments Politics; Email-your-friends reminder web application 10 comments Web development; Ugly footballers Misc. links; PixelField a game for pixel-lovers Misc. links; People who really can't think in numbers Mathematics; Changing the size of a textarea box 5 comments Web development; Python inspect module 2 comments Python; Film Music by Alfred Schnittke 1 comment Music; Classic Movie Scripts 1 comment Film; Obsolete Computer Museum 1 comment Misc. links; Psychiatric med student Michelle's story 1 comment Misc. links; Pretty print SQL script 6 comments Python; Integer division in programming languages 20 comments Python; Overcomplicated password requirements on Oystercard.com 1 comment Web development
July, 2004: Make your own 3-D pictures Misc. links; Most common English words 5 comments Misc. links; Date plus years or months or weeks 6 comments Python; World Oil Depletion and the Inevitable Crisis Politics; WYSIWYG inline HTML editors Web development; Intel.com incompatible to Mozilla Web development; University results 4 comments Mathematics; Date formatting in python or in PostgreSQL 1 comment Python; Honesty and advertising on Gizmodo Misc. links; Paper Wars Misc. links; On the amount of spam 3 comments Misc. links; Göta Kanal 2004 holiday photos Photos; Company loyalty Work; Life of Pi Photos; The World's Top 100 Wonders 20 comments Misc. links
June, 2004: Now I have a Gmail account 186 comments Misc. links; Evil HTML frames Web development; Holiday for a week 1 comment; TBODY tag in a XHTML table 2 comments Web development; Dan's just been to Sweden 1 comment Sweden; Underwater MP3 player 4 comments Misc. links; Afghan national sport photos 7 comments Photos; Ugliest site of the month, stradbally Web development; Kung fu photos from Varberg, Sweden 3 comments Kung Fu; Impressive baby photos website Photos; SquareOneTV Mathematics; Corp Calendar 0.0.5 Zope; Different phone, same number Mobile; Test your computer secretary skills 2 comments Misc. links; Accessible Pop-Up script 1 comment Web development; Washing sense of humour Politics; Nicking images from our website Web development; Lost my mobile phone 1 comment Mobile; 10 reasons for web standards Web development; "My Secret Life As A Prostitute" 257 comments Misc. links; Find song by lyrics 24,606 comments Misc. links
May, 2004: Experimenting with binoculars Photos; Can you add them all up? 4 comments Mathematics; McDonalds Calories Misc. links; "I Am American" 2 comments; Jaguar cars website Web development; No more university for me 1 comment Mathematics; PlogRank - my own PageRank application 2 comments This site, Web development; Google PageRank matrix calculator (graphically) 2 comments Mathematics; Bush votes: inverse proportional to education and IQ 1 comment Politics; Why should I use XHTML? Web development; Google hardware history Misc. links; Two done three to go Mathematics; Krispy Kreme doughnuts store opening 1 comment Misc. links; Zurich tram service problem Mathematics; Distributed compiling with distcc 1 comment Linux; Heil Jed and Dave Kuhlman 1 comment Linux; Obfuscating C contest running now 2 comments Misc. links; Outbreak - fight the viruses Misc. links; Molvania: A land untouched by modern dentistry 3 comments Misc. links; Windows Noise Becomes Music Misc. links
April, 2004: Images Misc. links; Don't bogart that camera my friend Photos; A whole website about Shallots 14 comments Misc. links; Food from Sweden 8 comments Sweden; Throw the penguin 1 comment Misc. links; Anna and Johan photo modelling Photos; About Ricardo Semler and Semco 3 comments Misc. links; Proper wireless computing Misc. links; Kill Bill flash game 6 comments Misc. links; Funny Plone quote 2 comments Zope; Emacs html-mode for .zpt and .dtml Zope; The importance of being findable 3 comments This site; LaTeX Word Counter 2 comments Misc. links; My dissertation report 2 comments Web development, Mathematics; The 5 most spectacular photos of 2003 17 comments Photos; How to fold clothes 9 comments Misc. links; XHTML, HTML and CSS compressor 16 comments Web development, Python; PostgreSQL, MySQL or SQLite 9 comments Linux; Challenge Osama with scimitar or sword Politics; Anti-email-harvesting with JavaScript Web development
March, 2004: Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka 2 comments Books; FWC November competition video Kung Fu; Fat food = fat kids? 216 comments Misc. links; Pylets, more than just mod_python Python; EuroPython in Sweden, I should go Python; Google PageRank algorithm in Python 27 comments Python, Mathematics; What's so bad about HTML guys? 2 comments Web development; He must really hate C 2 comments Misc. links; Virtual feminization 1 comment Misc. links; The Dead Zone Misc. links; Finished the bulk of my dissertation 1 comment Mathematics; The meaning of "hacking" 66 comments Misc. links; To readline() or readlines() 30 comments Python; Python UnZipped Python; Deep sea fish, lots of pictures 2 comments Misc. links; PSP - Python Server Pages 2 comments Python; Funniest Volvo advert ever 3 comments Sweden; How to uninstall LeakFinder in Zope Zope; Apostrophes in predictive text 1 comment; Moving Image Contest for Creative Commons Misc. links; Optimized stylesheets 1 comment This site; World Press Photo, the winners Photos; the knife: Pass This On 2 comments Misc. links; Unusual job offer 1 comment Misc. links; CPU info Linux; Lemon - Commodore 64 Heaven! Misc. links
February, 2004: StreetArt in London on Ploggle Misc. links; Lots of shit about shit 1 comment Misc. links; Share Your OPML Misc. links; What will you not wear today? 2 comments Misc. links; Anti-spamming email harvesting Web development; Bugknits Misc. links; Practical CSS 2 comments Web development; Best water in the world 4 comments Sweden; Neon-Brite, a 360 degree theatre play Misc. links; Future plan for IssueTrackerProduct 2 comments Web development; Ploggle Web development; WEBoggle mind bogglingly addictive 7 comments Misc. links; This site 7 months ago This site; Why Sun should Open up on Java 1 comment Linux; C++ templates or not; Ugliest site of the month, yoyoguy.com 15 comments Web development; MozillaZine Knowledge Base Web development; Afghan expressionism in a modern era Misc. links; RSS 1.0 feed now 1 comment This site; Getting fired in 3 hours Misc. links; Memory Test on BBC Science 1 comment Misc. links; Breaking usability principles for usability 3 comments This site; DOCTYPE in PageTemplates with METAL 1 comment Zope; Dan Heller's Photos of Italy 1 comment Photos; Man mailed himself home 1 comment Misc. links; Do you know about Wikipedia? Misc. links; Techie things I want to buy from ebuyer.com 6 comments Wondering; Adding a year in PostgreSQL 1 comment Linux; PayPalSucks.com, can't be good for PayPal 40 comments Web development; Photo.net, Photograph of the Week Gallery Misc. links; S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine 2 comments Film; Photofusion in London 1 comment Photos
January, 2004: The Chinese Martial Arts Film at BFI Film; I'm a computer nerd, but... Misc. links; ClearWind.ca a good looking Plone site Zope; Julien Donkey-Boy Film; 30 days solid McDonalds diet experiment 78 comments Misc. links; What Yin-Yang is Kung Fu; George W. Bush and the $85.2 million ad campaign Politics; Grep in Jed 1 comment Linux; Keybinding ALT-F in Jed 1 comment Linux; Passed my grading! 1 comment Kung Fu; Dabbrev in Jed Linux; Labels in HTML forms 2 comments Web development; Robots.txt Validator 1 comment Web development; MathML and displaying Math on the web 3 comments Mathematics, Web development; Hit the penguin 19 comments Misc. links; SimCity 4 and SimCity Classic 1 comment Misc. links; Same but new keyboard, lovely change Mathematics; Photojournalism on the former Soviet block Misc. links; Effects of LSD on drawing 89 comments Misc. links; Quick URLs for some pages This site; Ugliest site of the month Web development; China, being trained in prosecution by Sweden Sweden, Politics; Lost In Translation Film; Pholph's Scrabble Generator 1 comment Misc. links; So vivid dreams I couldn't get out! Wondering; Recon - Regular Expression Test Console Python; Printer friendly and PDF version of every page This site; Crontab wizard 2 comments Linux; About page finally written This site; "It's just a website" by Tom Smith Web development; eBay and freedom to sell whatever you like Misc. links; How old is Bettys dad? Mathematics; PythonPoint Python; Creating a user for postgresql 2 comments Linux; Vivisimo - clustered searching 1 comment Misc. links; Photos from Mars Photos; US Zip codes 1 comment Misc. links; Yo-Yo Misc. links; Back in town and not so ready for exams 1 comment
December, 2003: Two exams on the same day Mathematics; A jerk with a good website 1 comment Politics; Off to Sweden! 1 comment Sweden; A nice and simple article about Zope Zope; LOTR - Return of the King Film; Adaptation Film; ESI and Squid and Zope This site; International Snow Sculpture Championships 2 comments Misc. links; Happy Birthday to me!; "Historisk Guide till England" 1 comment Books; Man arrested for spamming Misc. links; Nintendo emulator online in Java 5 comments Misc. links; Back online This site; The Linux Cookbook 1 comment Linux; Amazon.co.uk Top Reviewers 4 comments Misc. links; Bad news for Stockholm Politics; Mr. Picassohead Misc. links; Case study where Python was the final choice Python; Moscow Metro 1 comment Misc. links
November, 2003: The Pentagon is big, very big 1 comment Misc. links; Py2TeX Python; More terrible album covers Misc. links; London underground map in 3D 13 comments Misc. links; Back from the competition Kung Fu; Kung Fu competition 1 comment Kung Fu; New phone, same number Mobile; 3D Sidewalk Paintings 7 comments Misc. links; Google search terms This site; Old motel postcards in the US Misc. links; SpamBayes and SSL thanks to Stunnel; Happy Birthday Malin! 1 comment Family; Matrix ASCII animated! 2 comments Misc. links; Zolera SOAP Infrastructure 1.4 1 comment Python; Recipe of creating the best paper plane 1 comment Misc. links; The worst jobs in science Misc. links; Amazon Marketplace - an odd update Misc. links; Amazon Marketplace - great web app Misc. links; Naughty but very happy; This Is Broken Misc. links; Worst Album Covers Ever Misc. links; Hubbell and Hubbell Misc. links; The Matrix Revolutions, naive but spectacular Film; Python for .NET Python; Parrot; CLR for the poor man Python; The end of the world, a scenario 17 comments Politics; Ever wondered how much $87 Billion is? 1 comment Politics; CSS Zen Garden 3 comments Misc. links
October, 2003: PLEAC Misc. links; Kung Foo Misc. links; Tangram Mathematics; One hot ear 1,295 comments Kung Fu; Sand java applet Misc. links; Search Inside the Book 1 comment Misc. links; Programmers Block 2 comments; Man jailed for smuggling eight snakes in trousers Sweden; Kill Bill vol. 1 2 comments Film; Sony Ericsson P900 1 comment Misc. links; Systembolaget under pressure; Nice date input 8 comments Zope; My breakfast This site; New feature: RSS feed This site; Data Structures and Algorithms in Python 1 comment Books; Who's who in the 'axis of evil' Politics; Web design practices Misc. links; Loadtesting this site and compare with static Apache 1 comment This site; 2 Years later Kung Fu; Once upon a time in Mexico Film; Geography: The lost world Misc. links; "Sweden and Denmark top in quality of life" 5 comments Misc. links; Trippy photo 1 comment Misc. links; Cartoons on Aljazeera.net 1 comment Misc. links; Why You Should Switch to the Mozilla Firebird browser 1 comment Misc. links; Really really shitty webdesign Misc. links; First day back at university Mathematics
September, 2003: Google News Alerts (BETA) Misc. links; Crazy about Linux Misc. links; Wow! Latest Plone sprint Zope; MOHO at Restaurant show photo This site; Cheer for Swedish coders Misc. links; Funny Dilbert for mathematicians Mathematics; Best in Show, really funny 2 comments Film; Good summary about Ricardo Semler 1 comment Misc. links; New search feature on this site 1 comment This site; City of God 1 comment Film; Perfect parking formula Mathematics; Great article about writing games with Python Misc. links; Google as calculator Misc. links
August, 2003: Photos from Cornwall camp 2003 Kung Fu; On training camp for a week Kung Fu; Some new Kung Fu photos 2 comments Kung Fu; The Seven-day Weekend 12 comments Books; Whale Rider Film; Terminator 3 Rise of the machines 1 comment Film
July, 2003: How to not get any spam; Squid now working in front of my Zope Zope; Back from my holidays Sweden; Fishing photos from last year Photos; On holiday for a week; Some new Kung Fu photos 2 comments Kung Fu; Last grading result 1 comment Kung Fu; Ang Lee slow motion but not Misc. links; Exam results arrived today Mathematics; Lots of little Agent Smiths 1 comment Misc. links; The "omit-tag" tag 1 comment Zope; Fry-IT people picture Work
June, 2003: First news item of the new webpage