I wrote a toy url shortener and people started using it

So yesterday I gave an introductory presentation on how to write web applications using Python, Flask and dokku. In my talk I shown how to go from zero to a fully functional application with a small but functional deployment environment based on Dokku. The nice thing I noticed is that people started using it, and…

Gin-gonic improvements

While writing simple web applications using gin-gonic web framework, there are some things that should be improved, in my opinion: Ideas Static file serving: it should be improved to use browser caching, according to https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/LeverageBrowserCaching Default values for templates rendering: there are some values that I am going to need in pretty much every template…

Dell XPS15 9530 BIOS reflash

I recently acquired a broken Dell XPS15 9530. As far as I've been told, the BIOS got corrupted during an update. As my research suggests, this is quite a common problem with this laptop. I am going to try reflash a working bios in order to make it work again. After all, it has some…

WordPress, again.

I am back on using WordPress.