Posts

• Making the Strofara

• Saving SSH passphrases on KDE

• The UX people

• Spam spammers back

• Use your Wii Balance Board as a scale (again)

• Clearing up some misconceptions about Passkeys

• I made an e-ink display that shows my calendar

• Hacking my appetite

• Making a security key for the Framework laptop

• Block non-Cloudflare IPs with ufw

• Compressing images with Stable Diffusion

• Poop analytics

• Better communication with other drivers

• Making an AI-generated sleep podcast

• How to write a modern Slack bot in Python

• How to ask for help

• Keyyyyyyyys!

• The "do not be alarmed" clock

• How to use FIDO2 USB authenticators with SSH

• Using FastAPI with Django

• Make your own PCBs with a 3D printer

• Behold: Ledonardo

• Seven tips for a great remote culture

• Revolut doesn't care about you

• Towards a more collaborative OSS model

• Securing your users' authentication

• A simple guide to PID control

• How to easily configure WireGuard

• Kubernetes 101

• A short 3D printer primer

• On increasing productivity

• Startup Mistakes: Choice of Datastore

• How to deploy Django on Dokku

• The scourge of web analytics

• Making a garage remote motorcycle mount

• Perfectly secure Bitcoin wallet generation

• 3D-printed breakthrough gives blind cat eyes

• The Bus Stop Bus

• Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time

• How to deploy Django with Docker

• Turning everything into a mobile phone: Redemption

• A WiFi-enabled RGB LED strip controller

• Provisioning your computer with one command: awesome

• Building a cheap home sensor/controller

• Open letter to Mozilla: Bring back Persona

• Hungry? There's a button for that!

• Private contact and calendar sync on Android

• Introducing: String Phone

• Review: CodeBug

• Shufflecast - Your own TV station

• Open source password management

• The microservices cargo cult

• Show page generation time in Django

• The iRotary Saga

• On API authentication

• Standalone Django scripts: The definitive guide

• I took a picture: Hope

• Gweet: Messaging for your things

• I took a picture: Lethe & Seals

• iRotary - Part Three

• iRotary - Part Two

• iRotary - Part One

• Netflix for the rest of us

• Calling single-argument methods in Django templates

• Get a text when there's motion in your house

• How to safely store your bitcoins

• I found the Holy Grail of backups

• Arduino-powered irrigation system

• Mozilla Persona accounts with disposable email addresses

• Remotely controlling IR/RF devices with an Arduino

• Developing with pull requests

• Automatically check your Python code for errors before committing

• Writing a full-text search engine using Bloom filters

• Reject unPEP8 pushes with git hooks

• No-hassle emails from your home server

• Winning at Candy Crush

• Writing a FUSE filesystem in Python

• Encrypted, deduplicated remote backups

• How to pronounce "gyros" (the greek food)

• DIY internet-enabled bathroom scale

• New tutorial: How to keep yourself secure online.

• Authentication and rate limiting

• Pacific Rim

• Writing an nginx authentication module in Lua

• Django's per-site caching doesn't work

• Brilliant or insane code?

• Faster installs with pip

• Blogging from the filesystem

• Use two-factor authentication for Mozilla Persona on your own domain

• Expandable code blocks in simple CSS3

• How to properly configure Google Apps email

• On the pitfalls of A/B testing

• New theme!

• Automated, large-scale deployments with Ansible's pull-mode

• Django template projects

• Writing my first Android app: Control your Raspberry Pi from your phone

• New domain name!

• How to remotely control RF devices with the Raspberry Pi

• How to turn your Raspberry Pi into an infrared remote control

• An example of provisioning and deployment with Ansible

• A comment on the causes of burnout

• Better password reset procedures

• Monitoring your system's temperatures with Python

• How to replace a Django model field with a property

• Proxying two connections in Go

• Adding a "login as user" button to the Django admin interface

• Developing an IRC frontend in Go

• A bug of life and death

• Developing a back-scratching robot

• How to highlight code in Python

• The curious case of the range() function

• Developing and deploying Python apps using pip and virtualenv

• A schemaless layer over SQLite

• Winning at Puzzle Adventures

• How to handle Python package installation on GAE

• On authentication usability

• A short update

• How PostgreSQL's SR (Streaming Replication) works

• App Engine pricing changes revisited

• Secrets of Power Negotiating

• Book clouds

• Blog migration

• Πρόγραμμα καταχώρησης αποδείξεων

• Delicious alternatives

• My Y Combinator interview.

• How to finally understand how to use Unicode.

• How to extend the Django admin site with custom views

• The mother of all URL validators.

• Using SQLite for great science, part 1 (or 3, I guess).

• New, ultra-secret project

• Using MongoDB for great science, part 2.

• Running Windows 7 in a VM.

• Speeding up Python code with ShedSkin

• My experience with using MongoDB for great science.

• SSL and security on the web.

• On mate selection

• How to synchronise folders between iPhones or iPods (or any two SSH hosts).

• SSH key creation howto.

• How easyjet screws you over.

• Forwarding ports on Linux.

• Optimizing python with Cython

• My experience with BuySellAds.com

• Thomson/SpeedTouch routers and WPA keys

• Custom model field validation in Django

• Hard disk/partition migration in OS X and Linux.

• GitHub and open source development

• Weekend project: IMDB API.

• New website launched.

• How to safely run programs under Windows

• Web design/software development

• ContentTypes and unit testing problems in Django

• Supported by Ninjas

• PyCuda and Windows

• King for a day

• Mounting ddrescue images under Windows.

• Spammers

• Dead Man's Switch

• File synchronisation

• Properly name TV episode files

• Printing "Hello world!" using curve fitting techniques (or: The "Hello world!" function)

• Apple woes

• Finding the Levenshtein distance in Python

• Mac: Second impression

• Google Apps' mail marked as spam by Gmail?

• Mounting samba shares with Greek filenames in linux

• What is OpenID?

• Moneygement

• RAID 0 vs 10k RPM

• The horrors of dining in London

• Flash charts

• Mobile phones and SIP

• Switching to vi - An odyssey

• Apache problems

• Nonzero Drupal theme

• Wireless problems.

• One reason to have sex.

• On graceful degradation

• The Sims

• Image manipulation with Python et al

• Gmail Checker Part II

• Pi

• Gmail Checker released

• Boa Constructor

• Fallacies

• How to resolve hostnames in linux

• MUDdrop

• New tutorial

• Digg vs Slashdot? No.

• What is PyPy?

• The Gallery

• Hamachi

• Trashing Linux

• Webhost change

• Firefly

• Allofmp3.com

• An important day

• Petals Around the Rose

• Authentication

• Hard disk crash

• SortSize

• Moviepig

• Done

• First post