The Linux kernel has a great firewall built-in commonly referred to as iptables. Actually iptables is only the user-space tool that you as the user interact with, while the kernel module doing all the work is actually called Netfilter. Here are a few tips on how to quickly set up …
Not too long ago I bought a Dell Inspiron 15 7570 laptop at a discount from their outlet website. Having owned the amazing Inspiron 7537 for the past four years I had very high expectations from this machine. While it’s a really good product in many ways with great …
Here is a quick way to mirror a git repo from one remote to another. This is not only useful for mirroring but also for backups. The git clone --mirror git@gitlab.com/myuser/myrepo.git command will create a mirrored repo, which is pretty much like a bare repo …
One of the first things many beginner Python tutorials teach is how to read or write files using patterns like with open('file.txt') as f: f.read() And then walk directories with libraries such as os: import os g = os.walk('.') next(g) Which will go recursively through results …
BeautifulSoup is a handy library for web scraping that’s mature, easy to use and feature complete. It can be regarded as jQuery’s equivalent in the Python world. In this post we’re going to scrape the front page of wooptoo.com and output a clean, JSON version of …
In this post we’re going to cover the basics of working with Marshmallow. Marshmallow is a Python library which enables us to easily sanitize and validate content according to a schema. Schemas are useful when we want to sift through user provided data en-masse as opposed to dealing with …
A few months ago I started working on a project seed for AngularJS 1.x. A project seed is the initial skeleton a developer would use to get things up and running quickly when commencing a new project. There are plenty of these around with the most popular being Yeoman …
Having dotfiles from the $HOME directory in git is a great way to keep track of what’s going on with some of our most important config files. However just creating a plain git repo won’t play nice with other repos found further down in the home tree. Chances …
I never quite liked JavaScript building tools. Grunt always seemed way too complicated for the simple things I wanted to accomplish. Like concatenating files and minifying them. One of the first bash commands that any Linux user learns about is cat. You can just cat a few files together and …
WebP is both a lossless image format, like PNG, which preserves every detail of the original image, and a lossy format, like JPG, which will compress the original image down to a certain quality. WebP support in browsers such as Firefox and IE is virtually nonexistent. However if a big …