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PyPI Analysis 2020 I've created an introductory post where I looked at the packages meta data in a very superficial way. In the second post I analyzed the relationships between packages by looking at a dependency graph. Now, in the beginning of 2020, I've updated the code and ran my analysis again. Have … Read More »

36C3 36C3 is the 36th Chaos Communication Congress. A congress for computer stuff; a lot about security. .checked { color: orange; } This is work in progress. I'm currently watching a lot of those Security Nightmares Language: 🇩🇪 My Recommendation: Speakers: Frank Rieger and Ron Tags: Security, Examples Description: This is a classic. They … Read More »

New Year 2020 It's new years eve and - as always - I try to finish some things and have some plans for next year. Review of 2019 Not a lot happened about which I want to write publicly, so here are some other mentionable facts: I have 68 643 points (+28 060) on StackOverflow … Read More »

Citations with LaTeX Managing citations is a core task when writing scientific documents. Of course, there are lots of options to do this with LaTeX. This makes it super confusing. If you need help, try tex.stackexchange.com. The guys there are super helpful and extremely knowledgable. If you don't even know how … Read More »

Coding Fonts The font choice for developing software is important. Developers read code all the time. This is an article I had for quite a while as a draft. As part of my yearly cleanup, I've published it without finishing it. It might not be finished or have other problems. Powerline Fonts … Read More »

How to Speed up Docker Building a Docker container can take quite a while. However, there are some easy parts to speed them up. This is an article I had for quite a while as a draft. As part of my yearly cleanup, I've published it without finishing it. It might not be finished or … Read More »

Flask Plugins The Flask Ecosystem has a lot of extensions. I'll introduce a couple I've stumbled over. There is also an awesome list, but it contains too many extensions and too little explanation when to use what. This is an article I had for quite a while as a draft. As part … Read More »

Funny Machine Learning Machine Learning brings awesome results, but sometimes it fails. And sometimes it fails in a funny way 😁 This is an article I had for quite a while as a draft. As part of my yearly cleanup, I've published it without finishing it. It might not be finished or have other … Read More »

Git Contribution Statistics I've just received a letter that the Scipy community will write a "scipy 1.0" paper and is wondering who should be mentioned as an author. So they want to figure out who "really" contributed something. While I think this should be a manual process (and maybe just anybody who … Read More »

Lynis Lynis is a auditing tool. This is an article I had for quite a while as a draft. As part of my yearly cleanup, I've published it without finishing it. It might not be finished or have other problems. Installation $ sudo apt-get install colorized-logs Problems could not find languages directory … Read More »