ProcrastinHacking

For a reason that will be too long to be explained here, today I wanted to look for one of my old Facebook statuses. Even if it turned out that there are Facebook applications (mystatuses is an example) that allow you to list all of your statuses, the hacker that's …

I'm using the very nice Flask framework for a small project of mine (I'll blog about in few weeks) and started using the very handy Jinja templating engine.

At some point, I needed to have a kind of enum type in the engine, sometihng I can test with

{% if status …

Yesterday i came across a very nice tweet pointing to the "Gource visualisation of Homebrew commits" (I'll promise to post about Homebrew soon).

The visualization is based on Gource, a wonderful OpenGL-based version control visualization tool.

I couldn't help and realized a short visualization of the LAW repository evolution over …

So I suppose that, given my main {procrastin,occu}pation in these days is to dig the web discovering nice hacks, I should, at least, post about them. Even if I would prefer not to blog actually…

This blog purpose is to inform colleagues and firends (in Italy and abroad …

So I have to blog, but what tool should come to the rescue? I decided to use Pelican a very nice static blog generator writte in Python.

You have to markup your text in reStructuredText, something I got used to when I decided to use Sphinx as a static web …