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Distributed Git

Git is decentralized. Sometimes that makes a difference.

27th March 2024 — Filed under: git version control

Dead on Import

On Python 2 imports can cause deadlocks

24th February 2021 — Filed under: python python2 Plone threads import

Lost in namespace

I ran into the problem that I wanted to import a global module of the same name as the current module, and it was throwing an error.

26th May 2020 — Filed under: python namespace path

Disk Hog

Be sceptical about the size baobab shows for /nix. Check for old nixos profile symlinks that hold back packages.

30th October 2019 — Filed under: NixOS disk baobab

Check out that number

If your mr.developer checkout is ignored, check whether your other eggs require a specific version of it. Also, you may want to stick to rational version numbers.

14th August 2019 — Filed under: buildout python mr.developer zc.buildout setuptools version control Plone

NATural selection

Switching NAT interfaces on NixOS less painfully

7th March 2019 — Filed under: NixOS shell network containers scripts bash

Persistence is futile

An unusual migration and its aftermath

26th October 2018 — Filed under: python cache Quaive ZODB migration Zope Plone persistence

Super Environment

16th November 2017 — Filed under: environment Supervisor

Against The Flow

17th June 2016 — Filed under: git version control workflow

The Mime Type Magic Show

8th August 2015 — Filed under: mimetype Magic Archetypes MimetypesRegistry python Plone

All scripts in the basket

20th March 2015 — Filed under: zc.buildout zc.recipe.egg buildout scripts

What's the user

9th November 2014 — Filed under: Plone user management

Stay On The Path

9th November 2014 — Filed under: Plone virtual hosting Acquisition

Smaller Blocks

9th November 2014 — Filed under: gentoo

Share what you open

9th November 2014 — Filed under: ssh

Run, xul, run

9th November 2014 — Filed under: xulrunner mozilla eclipse

Reversion Control

9th November 2014 — Filed under: git

Open Office and Poppler

9th November 2014 — Filed under: gentoo open office poppler

Old-Fashioned Alice

9th November 2014 — Filed under: IPv6 firefox alice

Lost library

9th November 2014 — Filed under: python virtualenv

Exiftentialism

9th November 2014 — Filed under: gentoo exif

Convert multiple lines to comma separated list

9th November 2014 — Filed under: bash sed

A new property for groups

9th November 2014 — Filed under: Plone user management PAS