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2015-10-09 − Blocking unsolicited content

In response to Mozilla’s Proposed Principles for Content Blocking: I want to block all unsolicited content. Explanation in more than 140 characters.

2014-09-19 − cairocffi: CFFI-based Python bindings for cairo

What is cairocffi, how does it relate to pycairo, and why did I build it?

2012-10-29 − WeasyPrint at W3C Developer Meetup in Lyon

I gave a talk in the Lyon city hall for the W3C Developer Meetup, presenting WeasyPrint, Kozea, and how we got there.

2012-09-27 − Who wants to maintain Flask-FlatPages?

I stopped using Flask-FlatPages on this site and I most likely won’t work on it anymore. Anyone wants to take over and maintain the project?

2012-09-17 − Invited Expert at W3C’s CSSWG

I just joined W3C’s CSS Working Group as an Invited Expert.

2012-09-10 − WeasyPrint at PyConFR 2012

I’ll be giving a talk about WeasyPrint at PyConFR on Sunday.

2012-04-05 − tinycss: a new CSS parser for Python

I made tinycss, a new free software CSS parser for Python. It is extensible, well-documented, well-tested and fast. It replaces cssutils in both WeasyPrint and CairoSVG.

2012-03-22 − WeasyPrint is now BSD-licensed

We just changed WeasyPrint’s license from AGPL to BSD.

2011-12-05 − Hashing passwords the Right Way

Don’t store passwords in plain text. Don’t use a fast algorithm. And don’t forget the salt.

2011-11-07 − Multicorn: Access foreign data in PostgreSQL with Python

We just released Multicorn. It enables you to write Foreign Data Wrappers for PostgreSQL in Python. Any data source can be exposed as a table and queried with full SQL.

2011-11-02 − WeasyPrint renders HTML+CSS to PDF

The project I’ve been working on in the past few months has finally reached an usable state and has gotten a public release! See weasyprint.org

2011-10-13 − Run a script on file changes with inotify

Have a script (eg. your test suite) run automatically every time a file changes.

2011-07-03 − Two Gedit 3 plugins packaged for Arch Linux

I just packaged for Arch Linux the Gedit Whitespace Terminator and Gedit Source Code Browser plugins for Gedit 3. You can find them in the AUR.

2011-06-10 − virtualenv HOWTO

Slides for an introduction to virtualenv and pip I gave recently.

2011-05-28 − Poor man’s NTP

How to synchronize a Linux computer’s clock when NTP doesn’t work.

2011-04-30 − Mirroring a Gitorious repository to GitHub

You can not make Gitorious or GitHub push to somewhere else, so mirroring them requires a few more steps.

2011-02-27 − Single-threaded event loop for file input and timers

To wait for various events and without polling, a blocking threads for each event is the obvious solution. However, multi-threading comes with its pitfalls and problems. Here we are going to see how to build and event loop the handle multiple event in the same thread.

2011-02-21 − Flask-Static is dead, long live Frozen-Flask!

Just because the new name is so much cooler.

2011-02-20 − Programatically open multiple GNOME Terminal tabs

To run several tasks in parallel and keep their output separated, run each one in its own shell. Doing so can be automated, and thus it should. Here is how to open a GNOME Terminal window with multiple tabs from a script.

2011-02-11 − Random pronounceable passwords

Using a sample text for statistics and Markov chains, we can generate passwords that are both random (and thus strong) and pronounceable (and thus easier to memorize.)

2010-12-29 − Using Jinja2 in Django

How to replace Django’s templating system by Jinja2 and still profit from it eg. in generic views.

2010-12-28 − Flask-Static: yet another static website generator

I’ve been working on re-launching my personal website (you’re looking at the result), and wrote a static website generator in the process. It’s made of two Flask extension: Flask-FlatPages gives easy access to content with metadata stored in text files, and Flask-Static takes a snapshot of a Flask application as static files.