Kamal Mustafa articles - 52 total
Passing Django request object
It handy to pass the request object around but that's a bad practice. Maybe it's influenced from past...
Adding pytest command to Django manage.py
The preferred way to invoke pytest is via the pytest command. Even the app pytest-django doesn't...
PostgreSQL as a Celery Broker
I’m currently using Redis as the broker for Celery, but since I already have PostgreSQL running, I...
Wagtail programmatically create page translation
I can't find any programmatic interface to create page translation. All the logics seems being...
Inline script defer
Problem when using defer to load external script is when you have inline script that depends on the...
Chiselled Ubuntu containers GA
Smaller Ubuntu container images. But I think it still low level tools for building such images,...
Isso comment system - alternative to disqus
It's a simple self hosted comment system, build in Python and just use sqlite database. By default it...
Any estimates longer than 3 days tend to be wrong
So breakdown tasks so that each part can be finished within 3 days. Break down tasks by 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴...
Python virtualenv no activate
My workflow when starting new python project or experimenting with something:- mkdir myproject cd...
GNOME Asia Summit 2022
GNOME Asia Summit 2022 this year was held as physical event in Kuala Lumpur for the first time after...
Misc notes on Github Codespaces
Just some quick notes since I have spent few hours trying to get nix working on Codespaces and get...
Django: _ (underscore) settings gotchas
It so happened that after we add some localization setup in our app, running our tests error out...
Firefox and Chrome resolve any localhost domain (*.localhost) to loopback address
I was reading this reddit's thread and this comment caught my interest:- Chrome and Firefox also co...
Python explicit self and turning function into method
Python self is one of the source of confusion and questions when someone start learning Python, espec...
Law of leaky abstraction and on learning the internal a.k.a the hard way
Update #1 2021 - Someone pointed me to this article about cargo cult programming is killing (Sri...
pipm: pip install to local-packages and pip run
Updates Look like there was already previous effort on this, there's even PEP being writte...
Python local-packages, à la npm node_modules
Updates Follow-up post where I made this into simple program called pipm. ****************...
Python: Compile standalone executable with nuitka
So nuitka compile python code into an executable. I have always impress with Go ability to generate s...
Git extract single file with history
We have one python module that we want to split into it's own repo as we start using it in more than...
DevOps is a culture, not a role
The traditional problem between dev and ops is the conflicting goal that they have in order to achiev...
Editing images in Linux
tldr; It still painful. I've just switched to Thinkpad X1 Carbon and running Fedora 30. Really misse...
Recalling memory in the age of information overload
Oh man, recalling memory is hard in this information overload days 😅 It started by a friend sharing...
AWS ALB routing based on HTTP method
tldr;- It's not possible at this moment. The new AWS ALB has more flexible way...
Receiving email with SES and Slack
When getting new domain, one of the crucial thing we need to have is to be able...
Snippet or not indexed posts
Sometimes I just want to add quick notes but it's not qualify as proper post. I...
How bad is self-signed cert?
How bad is you when it come to verifying a cert? People use cert from CA becaus...
Python: DIY virtualenv
virtualenv in Python is a very well known tools. Almost all tutorial will recom...
How is a program on linux executed?
Just a self notes to refresh my mind on this, as it keep popping from time to time and I have to goog...
Nashorn JavaScript engine
Few days ago, while looking at this SIP server, I noticed it being executed usi...
Python urldecode on command line
I have some logs that contain url with encoded characters and I need to extract...