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03 May 2016 »
Fixed "No module named _ssl" when using Google API Python Client on App Engine
Since 6d9ba51 less than a week ago, Google API Python Client now works on App Engine out-of-the-box; previously, you had to remember to 'enable' the ssl library (see this) so that it would be available, even though it is part of the Python standard library. (See issue #191 for a ...
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11 Jul 2014 »
sensible, less verbose browserify .deps output
If you've tried to output the result of browserify
.deps(), you'll realise the output is barely comprehensible - there's too much being printed! That's because browserify (actually, module-deps, which browserify use under the hood) includes the'source'field in the json stream.If you want to try ...
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20 Jun 2014 »
semantic grep
Some time back, I had written a small patch for the rspec project; you can see it here. Today, I don't quite remember why I wrote it; perhaps I was trying to get started contributing to rspec.
As you can see, it was really a very trivial patch. All ...
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19 Jun 2014 »
English: "ei" vs "ie"
I had taken down some notes on my computer. While reading through them, I noticed that I had made quite a few spelling errors of the "ei" sequence and had typed "ie" instead, eg. "decieve" instead of "deceive".
This might be because, having placed my finger above the "i" in ...
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01 Apr 2014 »
skipping tools when building LLVM with CMake
I had added the Polly project to my LLVM source tree. But I didn't want to build it this time.
git-grepof Polly showed only one mention intools/CMakeLists.txt:add_llvm_external_project(polly)
Yet even after commenting out the line, build files were still being generated for Polly. It ...
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18 Dec 2013 »
"You may want to delete the .swp file now."
Well, yes I do.
You may want to delete the .swp file now. Press ENTER or type command to continueHit Enter.
Now, re-edit the file:
:eYou'll be prompted about the swap file again, as expected:
Swap file "file.swp" already exists!This time, hit D to delete ...
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14 Nov 2013 »
start small, simple
I'm learning Prolog as part of CS2104. Consider a predicate in Prolog that checks if the Nth-indexed element of a list is Y:
nth([],_,_) :- fail. nth([X|_],0,X). nth([_|T],N,Y) :- N #> 0, N1 #= N-1, nth(T,N1,Y).
This is fine ...
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10 Sep 2013 »
Frequently used programs not automatically added to the Start menu KB282066
The list of English "poison words" is given in Knowledge Base article 282066.
For those of you who were reading this Old New Thing article on the Start menu blacklist and wanted to learn what those "poison words" were, but found nothing at KB282066: here you go, thanks to the ...
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08 Sep 2013 »
content access and navigation in Facebook
I noticed that there is disconnect between a content's identifier (URI) and the content's presentation. The correspondence is not one-to-one; the presentation is also affected by how the content was accessed - directly, or from within some page/widget.
For example, while browsing through a photo album, the photo ...
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26 Aug 2013 »
the Dvorak keyboard
It's been close to 3 months since I started using the Dvorak keyboard layout - that is, since the summer vacation began, where I could set aside enough time both for practice and for real use despite a low wpm. I now use it for both long-form and coding, and ...
