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Kindle saves highlights, bookmarks and notes in a My Clippings.txt file. I needed a way to parse it and filter out the content I wanted. I also wanted to work on a parser in haskell, so this was a great opportunity to get my hands dirty.

I used stack …

The timeit module provides an easy way to time python code. I use it to check if a new code implementation runs faster than an older implementation.

Example usage of this is:

import timeit

timeit.timeit('list(range(100))')

def greet():
    print('Hello World')

timeit.timeit(greet, number=4)

Timeit …

I've worked with codebases that have made me frustrated. Some of the **features** I've seen include:

• Naming the variables returned by a function $this and $return.
• Having different languages in the same project. For example, I got one which had PHP, Python, Perl, JavaScript (node in the backend) and c …

I use vimwiki to keep a track of my notes. This includes book summaries, linux commands, recipes and miscellanous content. It's an amazing vim plugin that provides easy access and navigation to the content. This however works well only within vim.

I occasionally need to access these notes outside vim …

I bought the Huion 420 because I wanted to experiment with graphics tablet and drawing on linux. I chose this primarily because of its cost. Out of the box, the device worked on my archlinux setup, however it behaved more like a mouse, with pressure sensitivity not detected. I did …

Generators are functions that behave like iterators, thus can be used in for loops. For example, a generator that produces even numbers will look like:

def even_numbers(upperlimit):
    current = 0
    while current < upperlimit:
        yield current
        current += 2

Generators are also created using a syntax similar to list comprehension:

even_numbers = (n …

Hackers and bots try to log into servers all the time. They do this by trying random ssh logins into your server. A deterrent to this is to disable the default ssh port and set it to something else. Also, disable root login as this is the most common user …

Pagination is the process of dividing up a document into discrete pages (wikipedia). Django and Pelican have similar pagination implementations. This boils down to having a class that has accepts a sliceable object as one of its params, and returns a page containing list of items depending on number of …

I've been trying to understand how django's decorator @cached_property works. Here is the class definition (original source):

# Got from django code base
class cached_property:
    """
    Decorator that converts a method with a single self argument into a
    property cached on the instance.
    Optional ``name`` argument allows you to make cached properties …

Wayland is a display server that should work as a replacement for X. I've been thinking of trying it out for some time now. Detailed information about wayland and its history can be found in this article. The differences between xorg and wayland can be found here or in this …