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Update on Google reader reading space

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Jj

This week Google launched its new top bar, which changed Google Reader’s DOM making the userContent rules I explained last month useless. Continue reading →

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Add a key to all items on a MongoDB collection

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Jj

Again, I am posting this because it took me more than expected to find this easy answer. I found it on StackOverflow, but I will repost and explain here. Continue reading →

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Sepia images with Django, Python and Sorl-thumbnail

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Jj

Meet Sorl-sepia, a Sorl engine backend (PIL only so far) to turn your images into sepia tones. See the README file for instructions. Continue reading →

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Squeeze more readable space out of Google Reader’s new layout

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Jj

I am not happy with the removal of Google Reader social features. I really enjoyed discovering new feeds following people.

Anyway, I don’t mind the new look but it leaves too little readable space. A couple of years ago I blogged about how to use Firefox’s userContent.css to optimize the layout. Continue reading →

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Install PIL with Jpeg support on Ubuntu Oneiric 64bit

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Jj

I am posting this because it took me ages to figure out how to solve this one.

I could not get PIL to compile with JPEG, Zlib or freetype support on my virtualenv. I am using Ubuntu Oneiric Beta1 on a Lenovo Thinkpad X220. That is a 64bits installation. Continue reading →

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Show http:// protocol in URL bar for Firefox 7+

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Jj

Firefox 7 beta was just rolled out yesterday to users on the Beta channel (that would include me). One of the various improvements and changes is that now Firefox follows Opera and Chrome in hiding the http:// protocol prefix from … Continue reading →

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UnicodeEncodeError on Django uploaded files

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Jj

This has been an error that’s been bugging me for months. For some reason in production settings only in the production server only, whenever a user uploaded a files with a non ascii filename, I’d get this error UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ … Continue reading →

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CSS3 gradients in Webkit

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Jj

I’m just writing this to record a shorthand answer to a doubt I had. Old format Webkit gradients only support percentage color stops Recently, Webkit added support for standards CSS3 gradients, so your syntax will be the same for different … Continue reading →

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Mogrify using too much memory

Posted on May 22, 2011 by Jj

I wanted to shrink pictures a folder with thousands of files. They were unnecessarily huge. So I made a script to resize them. Imagemagick’s mogrify takes all the RAM it can in the system to handle huge files, making the … Continue reading →

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Magenta CSS

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Jj

When setting a background color always set a foreground color Continue reading →

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