The ravens are looking a bit sluggish. Tell Malcolm they need new batteries.

Monday, December 15

Geek

Because, That's Why

Which is reason enough.

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Saturday, December 06

Geek

Dang

So, I'm moving my web development (both here at mee.nu and at my day job) over to uWSGI.  I've been using Green Unicorn, which is quite good, and CherryPy load-balanced by Nginx or Pound, which also works fine, but uWSGI has a lot of neat features, some of which I need, and doesn't work with Node.js, which is always a bonus.

uWSGI doesn't install on Windows, though really just due to some minor differences in the Python standard library, which could be fixed if someone cared enough to do so.  But no-one wants to actually run uWSGI on Windows, so no-one cares.

If you install Cygwin on Windows, which provides something very like a Linux environment, uWSGI does work.  Installation is really slow for no obvious reason, but it works.

But...  The reason I needed it installed locally is that I use PyCharm as my IDE, and PyCharm needs all the libraries installed so that it can check your code.  Turns out that PyCharm can't make head nor tail of Cygwin, so the entire exercise was pointless.

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PyCharm can use a remote environment to check your code - you can point it at a Linux box with everything installed to your specification and it will run the tests there.  This works, but is fiddly.

The other alternative is to just get a Mac.  I'm sure something I need doesn't work on Mac, but I don't know what it is yet, so right now that looks like a good idea.

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Geek

Also Also With

The other toy I want - the Philips BDM4065UC 40" 4K monitor - has now also shown up in online stores, at a price of AU$1049.

The advantage of this model is that it's so big that the pixel density is relatively normal, so it will work fine with Windows without fiddling with scaling settings.

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It's not a professional quality monitor, but it's not rubbish either; it's a VA panel, so closer in quality to IPS than to cheap TN.

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Thursday, December 04

Life

At Least 700%

Feeling crabby today, partly because the humidity in Sydney has been around 700% all week, so here's a picture of a cat.

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Rant

Just Pointing It Out

For a company whose primary retail presence is an online store, Dell's online store is bloody awful.

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Wednesday, December 03

Geek

I'm Not A Hard-Core Database Guy

Hard-core database guys post things like this:
Next step was to read the fork() implementation of the Linux kernel.
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Rant

The Difference Between Node.js And Ebola

There's a promising vaccine for Ebola.

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Monday, December 01

Geek

That Spam Filter Works A Lot Better Than You Might Think

Recent stats:
Allowed: 2,366
Blocked: 11,881,940
Whitelisted: 41
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