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Managing SSH keys with KeePassXC is actually quite nice
It all started with a post on Lobste.rs, someone asking how others manage their SSH keys. It was a question that I had already asked myself multiple times, so I was genuinely interested in reading about what others had to say. There must be a better way than storing them encrypted on your disk and…
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Using !bangs without the duck
Since I started using DuckDuckGo in the early 2010s, one of my favorite features that made me stay around to this day was the !bangs. Essentially, if you want to search on a particular website, you don’t need to open that page before starting to search. With bangs, you just use the appropriate 2 or…
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The books I enjoyed the most in 2025
Here we are at the end of another year, so I will share again the two books I enjoyed the most. Before starting, here are the links to similar posts covering the previous years: This time, after thoughtful consideration, I finally included one Portuguese book. It may not be that interesting for an international audience,…
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More app recommendations
The good part of having a personal blog is that I can write about whatever comes to my mind. Today I was thinking of how people find the software they use, how many people end up using the same apps because they don’t know any alternatives, and the fact that many creators (especially open-source ones)…
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Django: Deferred constrain enforcement
Another Friday, another Django related post. I guess this blog is becoming a bit monothematic. I promise the next ones will bring the much-needed diversity of contents, but today let’s explore a very useful feature of the Django’s ORM. Ok… Ok… it’s more of a feature of PostgreSQL that Django supports, and it isn’t available…
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Django: Overriding translations from dependencies
This week, I’ll continue on the same theme of my previous “Django Friday Tips” post. Essentially, we will keep addressing small annoyances that can surface while developing your multilingual project. The challenge for this article shows up when a given string from a package that is a dependency of your project is either: As we…
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Security.txt in the wild: 2025 edition
One year ago, I checked the top 1 million “websites” for a security.txt file and then posted the results in this blog. As it was described at the time, I used a tool written by someone else who had already run this “experiment” in 2022. You can look at the post, if you are keen…
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Status of old PyPI projects: archived
Since late January, the python package index (PyPI) supports archiving projects/packages. This is, in fact, a very welcome feature, since it clearly tells without any doubt when a package is no longer maintained and will not receive any further updates. It makes it easier for the person looking for packages, to know which ones deserve…
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Why isn’t my translation showing up?
Here we go again for another post of this blog’s irregular column, entitled Django’s Friday Tips. Today let’s address a silent issue, that any of you that have formerly worked with internationalization (i18n) almost certainly already faced. You add a string that must be translated: You then execute the manage.py makemessages –locale pt command, go…
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The books I enjoyed the most in 2024
Another year went by, and another batch of books was consumed. Just like I did last year, I want to share the ones that I enjoyed the most. But what kind of metric is that? Truth be told, it is not an objective one. Last year, I clearly described it like this: I don’t mean…
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Optimizing mastodon for a single user
I’ve been participating in the Fediverse through my own mastodon instance since 2017. What started as an experiment to test new things, focused on exploring decentralized and federated alternatives for communicating on top of the internet, stuck. At the end of 2024, I’m still there. The rhetoric on this network is that you should find…
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An experiment in fighting spam on public forms using “proof of work”
Spam is everywhere. If you have an email account, a mailbox, a website with comments, a cellphone, a social media account, a public form, etc. We all know it, it is a plague. Over the years, there have been multiple attempts to fight spam, with various degrees of success, some more effective than others, some…
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Hawkpost enters “maintenance only” mode
In practice this already happened a couple of years ago, now we are just making it official. For those who don’t know, Hawkpost is a side project that I started while at Whitesmith back in 2016 (8+ years ago). I’ve written about it here in the blog on several occasions. To sum it up, it…
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Is it “/.well-known/”?
Ironically, according to my experience, the .well-known directory doesn’t do justice to its name. Even in use cases that would fit nicely in its original purpose. But I’m getting a bit ahead of myself. Let’s first start with what it is, then move to discuss where it’s used. But we’ll do this rapidly, otherwise this…
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“Extracting wisdom” from conference videos
PyCon US happened in May, this month, the 154 videos gradually started being published on YouTube. Between now and then many other interesting conferences took place. That’s a lot of talks, presentations, and content to be digested. The truth is, I and most people, won’t watch it all since our time is limited. One option,…