openSUSE Conference 2017 - My Highlights
This has been my first openSUSE Conference and it has been great. Thanks to all the organizers and supporters! My Highlights I have to admit, that »
IOError - decoder jpeg not available 🐞
This is one of the blog posts, that is adressing the future me but might also be useful for you too. You might have gotten this »
Service Locator Pattern in Python?
The service locator pattern is a design pattern used in software development to encapsulate the processes involved in obtaining a service with a strong abstraction layer. »
HTTPS with Nginx, Let's Encrypt and acmetool
There is really no reason to not use valid HTTPS certificates anymore. Let's Encrypt is easy to use and free. So without further ado here is »
Off the Grid as a Digital Nomad
Being a Digital Nomad has a lot of benefits, but there are also some major downsides. Not having permanent access to the energy grid is one »
Django, Localized Decimal-Fields, and our beloved Internet Explorer
Current versions of Internet Explorer aren't as bad as it used to be. Some even claim that Safari is the new IE. We usually don't have »
Letting Django know about your HTTPS proxy
If you are running a Django application behind a proxy, Django cannot automatically know if encryption is used. This can cause problems e.g. with redirects. »
Two seconds, then kill it with fire!
In this example I'm setting a time limit for code execution. If the execution takes too long, the TimeoutException is beeing raised and we can proceed »
Django Channels - a game changer
Do you remember the good old days, when everything was stateless and there was, at least most of the times, a response for every request? Those »
Improved backups with rsync and ZFS
Today backups saved someones bacon again. A customer messaged me and asked if I could restore a file from yesterday. Luckily this is a piece of »