I'm a member of an open workshop in my hometown. Last week we started joking around about getting a drink vending machine. Still half joking, I started searching on eBay for used vending machines. While on my way to a pub, I pictured having a vending machine for the workshop:…
Today I want to take you on a tour of the Read the Docs theme for Sphinx. We'll look into what goes into it and then look at what web technologies are being used to make this theme happen. In a different take from the theme's own documentation, our journey…
If you want to run Sphinx doc tests in Travis you will need to jump through some hoops. Fortunately it isn't that complicated, I've created some sample code on Github/doctest-travis for you to follow along. Doc test are a way to ensure that your documentation is up to date.…
Sample code lives here. When I refer to source code line numbers, you're supposed to look at the code in this repository. Sample output (courtesy of readthedocs.org) is at https://sphinx-landing-template.readthedocs.io/en/latest/. By convention the landing page for your Sphinx project is a simple table of…
This article describes some efforts to automate OSM tile creation on AWS spot instances. I'm running a website for a regulars table in my city. As part of this regulars table we have a database of all pubs we visited, because we're in a different pub every Tuesday. Why not…
I've been learning Czech recently. My Anki cards have my native tongue German on the front and Czech on the back. When listening to Czech audio I really took a long time to translate simple words or grapple with the conjugation of Czech verbs. The remedy to this situation appears…
A friend asked me today if I could do some Perl programming for him. I'm a bit rusty in Perl, but I still understand it well enough to port it to Python. The source module was on CPAN and basically scraped all of the metadata off of distrowatch.com. The…
Recently we're experimenting with logging solutions at work. We'd like to have an indication of what our current setup is capable of handling in terms of log volume. My first idea was to whip up a quick Perl script that simply uses Sys::Syslog to dump Shakespeare's works into the…