November 2023

• Firebase in Node: functions is not a function

  Have you seen this error when trying to use firebase.functions:

  functions is not a function

  This is due to a Firebase API change from their namespaced API to a modular API. Continue reading to find out how to resolve this issue.

  Continue reading …

November 2020

• Wercker: You have reached your pull rate limit.

  Have you seen this error on Wercker:

  You have reached your pull rate limit. You may increase the limit by authenticating and upgrading: https://www.docker.com/increase-rate-limit"

  If you are an occassional/hobby builder then a free account on Docker Hub is all you will need to resolve the issue. Read on for a step-by-step guide.

  Continue reading …

• Wi-Fi issues with macOS Catalina

  I held off upgrading my OS from Mojve to Catalina, and then I simply forgot to. Recenlty, I did the upgrade, and everything worked fine.

  However, my Wi-Fi simply stopped working one day. No obvious reason why either. I tried sharing my phones data connection via USB and Bluetooth, but neither worked.

  A quick search led me to the solution.

  Continue reading …

May 2020

• Tailwind CSS + Hugo | Step 3 – Adding some basic content.

  I added some basic content to the site index page tonight.

  I don’t want to design the layout in isolation from the content. Real content allows me to do this piece by piece, and gives me some confidence in my approach.

  It keeps me grounded to one of the reasons for doing this in the first place.

  Read on and see how I added the basic content, and what I’m going to do in step 4.

  Continue reading …

April 2020

• Tailwind CSS + Hugo | Step 2 – Create a Basic Layout

  It’s been a while since Step 1 but I’ve finally come back to have a little further exploration with Tailwind.

  After Step 1, I had a very very basic site in place, so I decided it’s time to create a basic layout.

  I’ve decided not to be very adventurous to start-out, and so I stick with the single column layout I currently have on the site, along with three main sections of content.

  Continue reading …

• Release: pathfinder 0.6.2

  Pathfinder 0.6.2 is a minor release, with a fix that requires the filepath parameter to exist.

  If the path does not exist an error is raised.

February 2020

• Tailwind CSS + Hugo | Step 1 – Create the Theme

  The first step in this process is to create a new Hugo theme.

  hugo new theme tailwind-keyes

  Continue reading …

• Tailwind CSS + Hugo

  

  I’ve seen Tailwind CSS mentioned more than once over the past couple of years, and these mentions have always been favourable.

  My web design days are fading in the distance, so I thought it might be a good idea to attempt to create a Hugo template based on tailwind.

  Continue reading …

January 2020

• Testing with pendulum

  My usual way of modifying the behaviour of pendulum.now() when testing has been to mock it:

  with mock.patch(
      "pendulum.now", return_value=pendulum.parse("2020-01-01 00:00:00")
  ):
    ...
  

  However, I did something mad today, and delved into the docs and found a neater way:

  with pendulum.test(pendulum.parse("2020-01-01 00:00:00")):
  

January 2019

• Release: python-docraptor 1.2.3

  Bugfix: explicity set .message on DocRaptorRequestException.

October 2018

• Python Package – begins

  Command line programs for lazy humans.

January 2018

• Docker Compose Default Environment Variables

  Use ${VAR:-VALUE} to specify VALUE as the default value if $VAR is not set or is empty.

• MongoDB fdatasync: Invalid argument

  TL;DR you can’t use a VirtualBox shared folder to store your MongoDB data.

December 2017

• python-intercom is moving out

  python-intercom has decided it no longer likes living with me in my mud hut in the woods, and has moved into the marble floored and velvet cushioned environs of Intercom.

February 2017

• python-intercom 3.0

  Version 3 of python-intercom has risen from it’s seat in the basement, stomped up the stairs, burst through the front door, and roared “I’M FREE!".

November 2016

• python-intercom 3.0b3

  The long drawn out “will version-3 be released” saga is coming to an end. I’ve just released 3.0b3.

September 2016

• Password Reset on freenode

  How to get a password reset email from freenode.

• Heroku run Exit Codes

  For the past few years I’ve come to rely on Glenn Gillen’s plugin to get the exit code from processes executed by heroku run. Well colour me behind the times, but Heroku resolved this issue in May 2015.

January 2016

• How to specify where to store Let's Encrypt certificates

  Rather than leaving it up to the Let’s Encrypt client to decide where to place the certificates based on the domains being passed, it’s possible to specify exactly where to store them.

• Release: python-docraptor 1.2.2

  A teeny release. The default timeout has been increased from 10 to 90 seconds.

• Renewing Let's Encrypt Certificates

  Now that I had my Let’s Encrypt certificates in place, I needed an automated process to renew them. This post shows the config and the commands used to achieve this.

• No post content in Jekyll index pages

  When I upgraded Jekyll from 2.5 to 3, the pages that iterate over site.posts had no content in them. A deprecation warning points the way towards the fix.

December 2015

• Jekyll Responsive Embed Update

  An updated version of my Responsive Embed Jekyll convertor.

• Uploading a Let's Encrypt Certificate to AWS

  How to upload a Let’s Encrypt certificate to AWS.

• Let's Encrypt CloudFront

  Notes on how I installed a Let’s Encrypt certificate on CloudFront.

• baseliner 1.0

  The Baseliner overlay now indicates it does not want to be a target of mouse events. When Baseliner is open, it’s possible to interact with the page beneath.

August 2015

• baseliner 1.0.beta

  Baseliner has reverted to client side overlay generation. The main reason for this change, is to allow Baseliner to work offline. I felt that this simple tool should not need an internet connection to work.

• python-intercom 2.1.1

  Announcing version 2.1.1 of python-intercom.

• Keybase Web Identity Alert

  Having a proven web identity on Keybase provides a very basic sanity check for a web site. I recently broke the deployment to this site, and it was an email from Keybase that first alerted me.

July 2015

• Dropbox Deletion Warning

  An acknowledgement of Dropbox’s nice warning email when you delete a large number of files.

May 2015

• python-intercom 2.0.0

  Announcing version 2 of python-intercom.

April 2015

• python-intercom 2.0.beta

  A couple of major issues were raised for the alpha release. The first was the lack of support for empty body responses, and the second was incorrect tracking of changed_attributes for resources.

  These are fixed in this release, and an FAQ has been added to the documentation.

March 2015

• python-intercom 2.0.alpha

  python-intercom now supports Intercom API v2 and Python 3.

• HTTPretty test hanging on Travis

  nosetests that use HTTPretty don’t exit cleanly on Travis CI. An answer on Stack Overflow reveals the problem and a simple workaround.

• New Work Junction

  A new co-working space has opened in Kilkenny. Read on to find out more about New Work Junction and to see some interior shots, including the lockers in the vault.

September 2014

• GitHub Extra Border

  The pedant in me spotted an extra border on the GitHub contributions page, so I described how to fix it.

• python-intercom and self fields

  Intercom’s API returns a self attribute for each resource that contains a URL to the resource. As self is a reserved word in Python, the question is how should python-intercom support it.

• python-intercom 0.2.13

  A new release of python-intercom with support for wildcard importing.

• Jekyll Responsive Embed Converter

  Rather than visiting Embed Responsively to generate the markup for responsive media containers, I describe how I wrote ResponsiveEmbedConverter to automatically convert specifc URLs into the appropriate markup.

• Calculate Age with Python

  I wrote a simple function to calculate how old someone is based on their birth date, but it sucked as it was really slow. After some searching on Stack Overflow I uncovered some really elegant and fast code.

• Argument Parsing for Humans

  Using the args library for very simple command line argument parsing in Python.

• The Magic is in The Process

• NameError: global name 'basestring' is not defined

August 2014

• Logging Session and Environment with airbrake-python

• Release: python-intercom 0.2.12

• Release: baseliner 0.9.11

November 2013

• Release: python-intercom 0.2.10

• Release: pathfinder 0.5.3

• Release: python-intercom 0.2.9

• Release: baseliner 0.9.9

September 2013

• Release: pathfinder 0.5.2

• Heroku run command exit status on Wercker

August 2013

• Release: pathfinder 0.5

• Release: python-docraptor 1.2.1

June 2013

• pushState and replaceState bug in Chrome

• Ignore files when deploying from wercker

• How to install lessc on wercker

May 2013

• Release: python-intercom 0.2.8

April 2013

• HTTP 400 errors when using run_every in IronWorker Python

  TL;DR Iron Worker passes all command line parameters as strings, so they must be cast to the appropriate type before using them.

• Release: django-methodview 0.1.2

• Freemium Cheating

• Django Code of Conduct

March 2013

• Release: python-intercom 0.2.7

• WIP: Python Markdown prettypre extension

      <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">extendMarkdown</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">md</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">md_globals</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="p">:</span>
          <span class="n">md</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">registerExtension</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">)</span>
          <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">processor</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">PreTreeprocessor</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="p">)</span>
          <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">processor</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">md</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">md</span>
          <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">processor</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">config</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getConfigs</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">pre</span><span class="o">&gt;</span></code></pre></div>
  

  <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">extendMarkdown</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">md</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">md_globals</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="p">:</span>
      <span class="n">md</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">registerExtension</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">)</span>
      <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">processor</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">PreTreeprocessor</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="p">)</span>
      <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">processor</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">md</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">md</span>
      <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">processor</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">config</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getConfigs</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="p">)</span>
  

  </code></pre>

• Typeform

December 2012

• Hyperlink Protection Racket

November 2012

• Hyperlinks with Unicode in ReST

• Three Laws of Data Protection

October 2012

• codepad.org

• Django TestCase Transaction Wrapping

  def disable_transaction_methods(): from django.test.testcases import disable_transaction_methods

  <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">db</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">connections</span><span class="p">:</span>
      <span class="n">transaction</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">enter_transaction_management</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">using</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">db</span><span class="p">)</span>
      <span class="n">transaction</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">managed</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">using</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">db</span><span class="p">)</span>
  <span class="n">disable_transaction_methods</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="p">)</span>
  

  def restore_transaction_methods(): from django.test.testcases import restore_transaction_methods

  <span class="n">restore_transaction_methods</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="p">)</span>
  <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">db</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">connections</span><span class="p">:</span>
      <span class="n">transaction</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">rollback</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">using</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">db</span><span class="p">)</span>
      <span class="n">transaction</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">leave_transaction_management</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">using</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">db</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">pre</span><span class="o">&gt;</span></code></pre></div>
  

  from unittest import TestCase

  class Test(TestCase):

  <span class="nd">@classmethod</span>
  <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">class_setup</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">cls</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="p">:</span>
      <span class="n">disable_transaction_methods</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="p">)</span>
      <span class="c1"># ... import test fixtures</span>
  
  <span class="nd">@classmethod</span>
  <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">class_teardown</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">cls</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="p">:</span>
      <span class="n">restore_transaction_methods</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="p">)</span>
  
  <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">test_data_attributes</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="p">:</span>
      <span class="c1"># ...</span>
  
  <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">test_class_properties</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="p">:</span>
      <span class="c1"># ...</span></code></pre></div>
  

May 2012

• Play to Learn — VIM Adventures

• Rams – Design by Vitsœ

March 2012

• Apologies

• A Responsive Panacea

• Introducing python-intercom

  from intercom import User user = User.find(email='somebody@example.com')

December 2011

• Idea Magazine

November 2011

• Introducing python-docraptor

  docraptor = DocRaptor() resp = docraptor.create({ 'document_content': '&lt;p>python-docraptor Test&lt;/p>', 'test': True }) # PDF data is now available in resp.content

• Codex Magazine #2

• Continuous Learning

• Baseliner

October 2011

• Launch: Science Code Manifesto

• Hacker News Traffic

September 2011

• lesswatch

  body { ... }

• Automatically compile LESS files

• 8 Faces #3

• Release: pathfinder 0.3.1

  # only search top 2 levels of the directory tree paths = pathfinder.pathfind(".", depth=2)

• Disclaimer: FUCK OFF

• Using AFP to talk to ReadyNAS on OS X Lion

August 2011

• Running and sharing your local web servers

  Share this URL: https://xyz.showoff.io/

• Orchestra + Engine Yard

July 2011

• Unable to select an option using Selenium&#8217;s Python WebDriver

June 2011

• Excel2CSV

  A Python function to convert an .xls file to .csv.

• LetterMPress

• Find a random unbound port

  find_unbound_port returns a (pseudo-)random unbound port on localhost.

• Extracting values from a Cherokee configuration file

  Some Python functions to extract the maximum vserver id and the maximum source id from a Cherokee configuration file.

• Per Instance Settings in gondor.io

• gondor.io Initial Thoughts

May 2011

• Nokia C3-01 iSync Plugin

March 2011

• Getting EC2 regions using Boto

• Introducing Noun Pack

February 2011

• libjpeg 8c not compatible with PIL 1.1.7

• Nobody does that

January 2011

• Opening links in a new window

• HyperDock

• Maintenance Site

December 2010

• IFrame Document

November 2010

• Python Bug Weekend: Preparation

• Python bug weekend

• CCC GISTEMP Python 3 Branch

October 2010

• CCC GISTEMP and Python 3.2

• The Distros haven&#8217;t killed Python

• Open Feedback: PayPal

September 2010

• The curse of ^[[A

• Salon.com Scrolling

• A Minute With Brendan

• Python Ireland Unconference

• Transmit&#8217;s Progress Bar

August 2010

• Mailplane &#038; Safari 5.0.1

• Chrome cannot find my 404

July 2010

• Changing auth backend on a live system

• the dot conf

• Same For You?

June 2010

• Release: configpy 0.5

  Release 0.5 includes support for compound keys, and better __getattr__ support.

May 2010

• Releases: pathfinder &amp; configpy

• Release: configy 0.3

  Release 0.3 adds support for multi-line and in-line comments.

April 2010

• Shutdown and restart (automated dev env setup)

  if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then PATHDIR=</span><span class="nb">pwd</span><span class="sb"> else PATHDIR=$1 fi

  /usr/bin/osascript > /dev/null &lt;&lt;-EOF activate application "Terminal" tell application "System Events" keystroke "t" using {command down} end tell tell application "Terminal" repeat with win in windows try if get frontmost of win is true then do script "cd $PATHDIR; clear" in (selected tab of win) end if end try end repeat end tell EOF

  # get the directory this script was launched from bindir=</span>dirname <span class="nv">$0</span><span class="sb">

  # open TextMate $bindir/termexec "cd $PATHDIR" $bindir/termexec "mate ."

  $bindir/newtab $PATHDIR # for svn, git, etc.

  # start Apache $bindir/newtab $PATHDIR $bindir/termexec "httpd -k restart -f $PATHDIR/dev_conf/localhost.conf"

  # start PostgreSQL $bindir/newtab $PATHDIR # for postgres $bindir/termexec "$PATHDIR/bin/postgresql start"

  # open Firefox open $FIREFOX –args $APP_URL

  export FIREFOX APP_URL

  bindir=</span>dirname <span class="nv">$0</span><span class="sb">

  $bindir/devapps "/Users/john/Workspace/demo/jobs"

• Google Follow Finder

• GitHub Gists

• Football updates on the mobile web