Github streaks are a pretty fun and harmless way of visualizing your contributions on github or gitlab. Some people use them to brag a little, some companies use them to check out potential candidates. It’s all good as long as everyone is aware how easily …
read moreAs a small weekend project I wrote my own dotenv CLI.
Dotenv-CLI is a simple package that provides the dotenv command. It reads the
.env file from the current directory puts the contents in the environment and
executes the given command.
Example .env file:
BASIC=basic basic
export EXPORT …After more than two years without an update, I’ve decided to discontinue developing reportbug-ng and orphaned the Debian package. Since reportbug is a more than adequate alternative and reportbug-ng’s popcon value is relatively low, it’s probably the best to just remove the package from the archive.
I …
read moreProfiling in Python has always been easy, however, analyzing the profiler’s
output not so much. After the profile has been created you can use Python’s
pstats module but it feels quite clumsy and not really empowering. For Python
2 there has been RunSnakeRun, a very convenient tool for …
A couple weeks ago Mozilla Thunderbird released version 60 and a lot of extensions became incompatible. Amongst them Exchange Calendar, an extension that allows to sync calendars, tasks and contacts with a Microsoft Exchange Server. That extension has served me well over the last years in my job where we …
read moreTwo months ago I asked for help porting python-debianbts, to Python3. Python-debianbts is a tiny little library that allows for querying Debian’s bug tracking system. Since Debian’s reportbug depends on it, the library is installed on ca 80% of the Debian installations. The main blocker back then was …
read moreDear Lazyweb,
I’m currently trying to find a way to port python-debianbts to Python3. Debian’s standard bugreport tool reportbug depends on python-debianbts and can thus not convert to Python3 if python-debianbts does not as well. Unfortunately python-debianbts depends on SoapPy for parsing the Debian bugtracker’s responses, and …
read moreThe result for the General Resolution about the init system coupling is out and the result is, not quite surprisingly, “General Resolution is not required”.
When skimming over -devel or -private from time to time, one easily gets the impression that we are all a bunch of zealots, all too …
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