You are looking at a new theme I am working on for pelican, build on top of tailwindcss. While I don’t think it looks visually stunning (yet, fingers crossed) it does a few things in the background already that I quite like: It builds a tiny css file to …

wpool is my preferred erlang worker pool library. But there is no easy way to broadcast a message to all spawned workers. Or is there? In this article we will have a look at wpool, how to easily replace a single gen_server with a process pool and finally how to …

A report on how my first Erlang deployment went down, and what I learned from it.

Showing off Regular Expressions in Erlang and how to build a simple lexer

A look at asynchronous functions in Erlang and why there is no real need for a support library.

I wanted to make something better than the plain python http server for pelican site development and then thought that actually it wouldn’t be too hard to build something which should work for all static site generators. So i hacked together ssg_reloader, a simple python / flask app which serves …

Short intro on how to write tests for your pelican-plugins and rambling about the structure of pelican itself.

I am currently developing a distributed system for my Bachelor Thesis which utilizes a node controller application to distribute calculations from a client application towards node applications. For testing I wanted to use EUnit, mostly because that’s what I already knew and writing Unit Tests for my data module …

Some weeks ago I wrote a application in Erlang which reads data from the youtube API. I wanted to parse its content efficiently via a sax parser and xmerl was the first search result that popped up. At first I had trouble reading its documentation it is actually easy enough …

A short introduction to Erlang OTP and how to program a File Poller which implements gen_server

Developing a Paste Site in Erlang, supported by chicagoboss

python-twitch has been upgraded to 0.2.1

How to handle some of the stones eclipse throws at you when you don’t expect it

Derping around with python and paths

features…features everywhere

added Youtube search function to my XBMC alternative

New Simple Media Center (simpleMC) Version

Third working release of Simple Media Center (simpleMC)

Second working release of Simple Media Center (simpleMC)

First working release of Simple Media Center (simpleMC)

Startup of a new project. Simple Media Center (simpleMC) aims to provide a lightwight alternative to XMBC.

Last semester I dipped into functional programming. Today I want to show you the part which stood out the most for me: Readability.

Or why you should always think horse when you hear hoof-beats, not zebras.

Introduction to kuhbox, a simple backup solution based on python and dropbox