Zap all annoyances: images, colours, plugins, iframes etc
Many web sites’ developers seem to think “the more the better” and clutter their pages with endless images, flashy colours, …
Heroku and django-bower
Heroku, a cloud solution for various application engines, supports django out of the box. It does a pretty good job of providing you with a deployment …
How to change shell prompt in Midnight Commander
Bash allows users to do very advanced things when defining shell prompt, including colours and propagation of information into xterm title. …
Faster CSV parsing in Python with pandas
Recently I had to write a Python script which needed to parse large gzip-ed CSV files. First I reached for the standard
csv
module, which is quite …
String interpolation in Python 3.6
String interpolation is a useful feature in many programming languages which helps the developers to generate formatted messages easier. An example …
Cmake FindMySQL script
Cmake is a great build tool. It takes care of generating build system files, targeting, among others, Unix makefile, MS Visual Studio, ninja, XCode …
High system load with Ubuntu 15.10 and 16.04 in AWS
I have recently upgraded my Amazon cloud t2.micro instance from Ubuntu 15.04 to 15.10. And soon I noticed a very strange high load on the machine - …
Muting conversation threads in Google's new Inbox
I wrote earlier regarding the new product from Google - the Google Inbox. GI is still work in progress, so some features present in the familiar GMail …
Creating Drupal theme based on boostrap and material design from Google
clog - add colours to your log life (and files)
Developers often have to look at log files. This is sometimes boring, sometimes tedious, but it’s a fact of life. It would really help if some …