Siddhant Goel

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As someone who writes software for a living, I think it's a good idea to learn a new language/technology every once in a while.

I have been looking to replace my password management setup for a few months now.

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I like enabling flake8 on my Python projects.

My wife and I often go hiking, and one of these evenings we decided to hike up a mountain, and set up a tent on top so we can stay overnight and see the sunrise from up there.

It's been close to 2 years now that I've been working from home.

We use Python extensively at work, and our web application talks to a PostgreSQL database using the SQLAlchemy database toolkit.

Last week I open-sourced beancount-dkb, which is a Python package that provides importer classes for converting CSV exports of DKB (Deutsche Kredit Bank) account summaries into the Beancount format.

People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill.

SaltStack, like any good configuration management system, provides a way to distribute sensitive data (like passwords or API keys) to minion nodes in a secure manner.

The "N + 1" selects problem is one of the most common problems one might run into when working on a database-backed web application.

If you've worked with Python before, you probably know that it makes a trade-off between developer productivity and speed of execution.

Tornado is an asynchronous web framework, allowing you to handle web requests asynchronously out of the box.

TL;DR: I built http://stuckinvim.com.

Recently at work we were working on a feature where we wanted our users to be able to upload files.

I've been working a lot with terraform recently, and it has been quite productive so far.

Situation: ELB configured with TCP listeners, passing traffic on to nginx which then proxy_passes all traffic to the actual application server.

Vue.js has been getting a fair amount of press recently.

In my spare time, I tend to work on side projects for fun.

I'm a backend & infrastructure software developer based in the greater Munich Area, Germany.

After a while without posting anything to the interwebs, I decided to start writing again.