May 2, 2019

it's never too late to join the party!

Although I started writing code already at the age of 13 (generation C64), and I am a professional web and backend developer since 2007, I only started contributing to open source software quite recently - apart from the occasional bug report. what is open source software? Quote from Wikipedia: Open-source software (OSS) is a type of computer software in which source code is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose....

July 28, 2018

ignore requests for apple touch icons

the problem My application’s error log is polluted with tracebacks of notFoundErrors from Apple browsers requesting apple-touch-icon.pngs. For those, who do not know… Touch icons are to Apple’s mobile devices what favicons are to (desktop) web browsers. According to ComputerHope: When someone bookmarks your web page or adds your web page to their home screen, this icon is used. So, when you run a public website, no question, you want to put some effort into making some great icons, so your website looks great on your users’ home screen and bookmark section....

July 4, 2018

sudo dnf install beautiful-problems

There is something I immediately disliked when using Fedora the first time - the bash prompt. For many years I’ve been using a fixed prompt at work for all my machines, a beauty in green and yellow… And when I first started bash after installing Fedora on my home laptop, I encountered this grey monotony… [jugmac00@localhost ~]$ I did not try to recreate the prompt I have at work, but I wanted to try something new - and oh my zsh, ah, oh my god, zsh did not come to my mind - yuck!...

July 1, 2018

getting back ctrl over ctrl+alt+arrow in gnome

the task Deactivating Gnome’s keyboard shortcuts for ctrl+alt+left / ctrl+alt+right to make those combinations available for another application. In my case I tried to use these shortcuts in Jetbrain’s PyCharm for code navigation. the obvious (and wrong) way Go to Settings Devices Keyboard Keyboard Shortcuts Change or reset the values for the shortcuts Although both shortcuts are obviously blocked by Gnome, they are not listed. one way $ gsettings set org....