Technical notes, my online memory

Interesting gotcha with Django http responses I hit today. Say you want to stream back content in a http response because gathering it from...

It's not immediately obvious that you shouldn't just use your gmail account password when submitting code to code.google.com.  While...

Use this command to tar, zip and encrypt a directory: tar cvz --to-stdout src_dir | gpg --cipher-algo AES256 --symmetric > out.tar.gz.g...

If you follow the instructions for sharing links to google drive files, you end up with horrible links that are mostly just long random str...

The OIG has a great write-up of an incident response at the Economic Development Administration that cost them $2.7m and included them phys...

There's a neat way to skip python tests built into unittest . You can use decorators for the test or whole class of tests that will skip...

So I have a generator and I want to make sure it throws an exception after a certain number of calls. So expected behaviour is this: def ...