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…

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Testing Go applications with PostgreSQL and docker

I spawn and terminate docker containers automatically with Jenkins. This allowed me to have a lighter application and to keep my testing environment closer to the live environment. In this post I describe how I did this. The problem A problem i recently faced was how to build continuous integration for a web application I…

Correctly erasing an SSD on GNU/Linux

This is not really an article but more of a note for future reference. So i decided to wipe an SSD drive, and I assumed that using the good old dd would not have been the correct choice. I was right, and someone (thanks mingdao) from #gentoo on Freenode directed me to this page: ATA…