Florian Dahlitz

Nov 13, 2019

How To Modularise Your Shell Config

Modularising your shell config for a cleaner setup Note: The setup described in the following sections can be applied to shells like bash, zsh, fish and other common unix shells. However, keep in mind that the command(s) might differ a bit. I’m using custom shell commands, aliases, and functions quite…

Linux

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Oct 25, 2019

How To Use OBS Studio Under Debian

Solving the black screen Screen Capture (XSHM) issue occurring under Debian Recently, I wanted to use OBS Studio (Open Broadcast Software) to record some of my coding sessions. As I switched from Windows to Debian a lot of things are still new to me. As I followed along there (unofficial)…

Open Broadcaster Software

2 min read

Apr 26, 2019

How To Create Your Own Timing Context Manager In Python

After publishing my last article, which was about list.sort() and sorted(list), I was asked, why I was using the boxx library instead of built-in functionalities to measure the execution time of certain pieces of code. …

Python

4 min read

Apr 8, 2019

list.sort() vs. sorted(list)

A closer look at Python’s built-in List Sorting Methods concerning Memory Consumption and Time Efficiency — Introduction Recently, I came across the question, which method to sort a list is more efficient: Using Python’s built-in sorted function or relying on the list.sort method. To answer this question I started a little investigation described in this article. You can find the repository I’m referring to on GitHub.

Programming

5 min read

Mar 23, 2019

Run Python Applications as non-root user in Docker Containers — by example

After the emersion of the runC container runtime bug it’s finally the time to run processes in Docker containers as non-root user. This article shows you how to achieve that with your Python applications. Using requirements.txt If your project uses a plain requirements.txt , you can use the following snippet to run…

Docker

2 min read

Jan 1, 2019

Customize Click Help Page

Recently, I wanted to start my open source journey by contributing to an open source project called wily. The issue I was working on was to first add a version flag to print the current version of the tool and second to add the version to the help page. As…

Python

3 min read

Dec 26, 2018

Python’s f-strings vs. str()

A few months ago I’ve seen a tweet from a Python learner with a code snippet containing f-strings. I asked, why she’s not using format() . She answered, that this is the new way of formatting strings. I was curious about it as I didn’t hear about it before. …

Programming

2 min read

Published in Coding experiences

·Apr 29, 2018

#16 and #17 Week of the Year

Ending up the #100DaysOfCode-challenge with informing about newer Python releases, asynchronous programming and community work. With this article I not only summarise my past two weeks of learning and coding, but also end up my #100DaysOfCode-challenge. …

Programming

3 min read

Published in Coding experiences

·Apr 15, 2018

#15 Week of the Year

A week on the subject of image recognition and Python secrets everybody should know about. Image and Video Recognition This week I started with the focus on learning more about image recognition with a predefined model instead of a neural network. …

Programming

4 min read

Published in Coding experiences

·Apr 8, 2018

#14 Week of the Year

Playing around with IPython. Working on the command line. Going on finishing my portfolio page. This week was the first week I was back studying in Mannheim. After two months of internship it was quite challenging to find back into routine. That’s actually the major reason, why I wasn’t able…

Python

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