Tag archive for "Python"

I run Debian unstable on a few machines and wanted to know if I was always running the latest kernel. I've added the script below to my shell startup. And then I went on and added it to some servers as well, after a few hundred days of uptime there … more

I recently played a bit with emojis, the result is this script which lets me search existing emojis and transform strings. It's a trivial Python script that leverages https://github.com/carpedm20/emoji more

A while ago I published a snippet to generate an OTP auth token from the command line, but I recently got a new phone and had to re-add all my secret keys to a different authenticator app. As I keep all the secret keys backed up I made another script … more

Wagtail has "scheduled" pages that are not yet visible on the site. I think the interface is not ideal as you need to click the Publish button after setting a publication date on the Settings tab. I'm not sure how exactly the data models work, but the actual publication is … more

I recently added OTP authentication using pam_google_authenticator.so to most of my machines. It's non-trivial to set up, especially if you have system users with limited capabilities that need to be able to log in non-interactively, but all in all it feels good to have a little more security. When logging … more

Recently I started working on a Django project, loaded the prod database into it, and ran the tests. Then the data was gone. I know some people intentionally want to run tests on the "main database", and there is a very simple way to achieve this. Simply inherit from a … more

I love quodlibet and have a big collection of music in it. Some time ago I wanted to transcode some big lossless files into the more mobile-friendly ogg format and wanted to query quodlibet for the songs. This is an example of a script that can access the quodlibet database … more

I needed protected downloads for a project using AWS S3 on a HTTPS Django site. There are various ways to solve this problem, but I thought the most obvious was to offload access control to S3. Boto can generate signed download links that are only valid for a limited time. … more

One of my client uses google apps, so I use that account to send out mails with Django, which works just fine. However, google silently drops all error mails to the admins, for whatever reason you can't debug and will never hear anything about anyway. As those mails only go … more