Recent Posts all posts

TLS and Nginx Transport security is an important topic nowadays. We don't want a man in the middle (MITM) to be able to read our communication with banks, our e-mails, or our medical apps. Hence we need encryption of our data at the transport layer level. The Problem of Internet Connections The internet … Read More »

Celery Celery is a task queue. I was experimenting with it today and want to share some insights. The Problem Think of YouTube. Users can upload videos, but before they are shown on the platform they need to get processed. Converting the format, checking for illegal content. This takes a considerable … Read More »

Computer Temperature I just realized that my Thinkpad T460p gets really loud. I suspect that there is just quite some dust in the machine so that the fan gets louder. But I'm not sure how to check that and I hesitate to open the machine. So let's see which information I can … Read More »

SQL Connection Strings When you want to connect to a database in SQLAlchemy, you need a connection string. It usually has the form dialect[+driver]://user:[email protected]/dbname[?key=value..] Quite often, the user is root and the host is localhost. Once you have the valid connection string, you can test if … Read More »

Vegetable Curry Curry is a dish found in many asian countries. It's always spicy, but necessarily in the hot-spicy sense. There are just a lot of spices in Curry 🙂. Vegetable Curry Ingredients For 3 people, you need: 500g Broccoli 1 Zucchini 1 big onion 1 pepper 2 carrots 3 spring onions 0 … Read More »

Gunicorn sync Async Workers tornado AsyncIO Workers worker gevent eventlet gaiohttp gthread core characteristic * Per request a process* Blocks other requests until it is finished * based on the Greenlet library* Program-level threads * based on the Greenlet library* Program-level threads *provides async I/O non-blocking design model* ideal for handling long requests … Read More »

REST REST is a software architectural style that defines a set of constraints to be used for creating web services. Most explanations of REST give too many details, such as the architectural constraints. To get a glimpse how REST works, this is not necessary. In this article I try to focus … Read More »

Krankenkasse This article is about German health insurances. It reflects a bit of my decision process for a health insurance and is most useful for people within Germany. When I had to choose health insurance at the age of 24 or so, I was still at university. I had a look … Read More »

Crispy Thuna and Tofu Crispy Tofu and Thuna is the first way to prepare Tofu that I liked. It's a sweet indonesian dish which is best served with rice. Crispy Tofu and Thuna Ingredients For 4 people, you need Thuna Tofu 2 Onions 3 spring onions Ketchup (or Chili-Mango Sauce - I like that better … Read More »

Schlagsahne vs Saure Sahne This is a German post about cooking, explaining the difference between whipped cream (Schlagsahne) and sour cream (Saure Sahne). Cooking. Not Computer Science / ML / hiking 🙂 Saure Sahne oder Schlagsahne - das frage ich mich jedes mal, wenn ich Rezepte auf Chefkoch nachschlage. Ich glaube im großen und ganzen kann man sagen … Read More »