Blogs on FlowFX

I am looking at Python again, specifically I am working through Brian Okken’s awesome book Python Testing with pytest.

I agree so much with this that I’m putting it here for my own reference.

Alpha Blondy & The Solar System are probably my favorite live performers.

Since migrating this site to ox-hugo in 2024 its RSS feed only showed a summary of the blog posts — because that’s Hugo’s default.

So, I have a PeerTube account now.

I have added the /music page to collect everything related to my musical activities.

I’ll be playing a surprising number of shows until the end of the year, both with my long-term band The Uplifters & Block Ice Horn Section, the band that I just recently joined, The Offbeat Service (mostly 2-tone Ska from Worms), and the very fun rock-pop…

This past spring I was looking for a local band to support The Uplifters at a concert I was setting up in Mannheim in June.

Back To The Mac 2 I am building my first custom Emacs configuration, moving away from Doom Emacs.

Or: Back To The Mac 1 After using only Linux machines for work for the past 5 years, my next machine will be a MacBook.

Dafür, dass The Uplifters eine Freiburger Band sind, spielen wir dieses Jahr außergewöhnlich oft in der Rhein-Neckar-Ecke.

I have an awesome band!

Last week I bought a brand new trombone.

Yes, my training week starts on Saturday.

Since my training log project is going nowhere, I might as well log my training here, if just for a few weeks.

Basically everything I need for my training at the moment.

“Bist du noch bei der C3S?

Vim config of the week: I can now copy & paste between vim and the rest of my system.

Es ist ja nicht so als hätte ich zu viel Zeit, oder dass mir langweilig wäre.

For mostly unknown reasons I want to delete my Google account at some point in the future.

I love cover songs.

Recently, Nick and I published 3 episodes of Several Ways To Live in a single day.

Es ist kein Geheimnis, dass ich großer Fan davon bin, meine Arbeit außerhalb des Firmenbüros zu erledigen.

A few weeks ago I updated the Nikola that powers this site to version 8.

I don’t like notifications.

For the first time in many years I am using a Linux machine for my work.

Gestern war ich das erste Mal seit 20 Jahren beim Eishockey.

Last week I went to our local hackspace, the RaumZeitLabor, and I talked to Cheatha about my recent adventures with Anki.

I’ve been playing around with Anki, the spaced repetition application, A LOT in the last few weeks.

I spent the last few days in Dublin, Ireland, visiting a very good friend of mine.

Let’s say I come across a piece of code that I want to refactor but unfortunately a) I don’t understand what it does and b) it’s not covered by tests.

Testing Rails with RSpec is slow, or at least it feels slow to me in all the projects I am working on.

Slowly but surely I’m getting to know the really interesting Rails-related Vim plugins.

This is a tiny update to Running Specs from Vim, Sent to tmux via Tslime from the thoughtbot blog.

Last year I made the switch from developing with Python and Django to working with Ruby and Rails.

Working a full-time job in an office is something different.

My search for a new job has been successful.

This post talks about two things: how to save backup copies of your Audible audio books how to create an podcast feed of your audio books Update 2018-05-27: Audible stopped offering to download the audio files in “Format 4”.

A few months ago I started a new podcast project Several Ways to Live in Mexico City with my friend Nick.

Update 04/04/2018: There’s been a development.

Recently, Harry wrote a post about how to speed up Django unit-testing by using a persistent in-memory SQLite database.

Bugs are nice because I can learn from them.

There are several ways to live, and many more in Mexico City.

When testing a Django app with Selenium, how do you authenticate the user and test pages that require to be logged in?

A few months ago I explained how I efficiently test Django forms with pytest parameterization.

This post describes the configuration of a continuous deployment pipeline that deploys a Django project from GitHub via Travis CI to PythonAnywhere.

In my current project, I create PDF files from Jinja2/LaTeX templates.

Nach langen Monaten habe ich diese Woche gleich zwei neue Podcastepisoden veröffentlicht.

Reggae Freiburg hat ein neues Zuhause und läuft endlich unter der würdigen Domain [**www.reggae-freiburg.de**](http://www.reggae-freiburg.de/) Checkt das!

This week I installed a LaTeX font package in my PythonAnywhere account.