The dusty remains of a web presence.
When I remade my website with Jekyll last week, I made a project showcase page (check it out in the sidebar!). In under twenty lines of code, I built a system for programmatically display a list of projects with descriptions, and look nice doing it.
MoreI recently found out that GitHub has a Name Squatting Policy whereby inactive accounts will be removed upon request. This means that nice short handle someone claimed years ago and never used could be yours, assuming the account doesn’t have loads of private activity.
MoreI wanted to strip every set of angle brackets in a file, and googling just reminded me that you can’t parse HTML with regex.
MoreOn my phone, the HTC One X, the manufacturer chose to forgo the standard Android device notification LED. This, combined with a screen that’s slow to turn on, makes checking for notifications unnecesarily tedious.
MoreFiles stored in your Dropbox Public folder are viewable by anyone with access to the URL, which is long and hard to remember but unique. Flask is a microframework for making lightweight dynamic websites in Python. In this post, I’ll be demonstrating how to make a simple webapp with Flask that redirects requests to your Dropbox public folder, and hosting it.
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