Having a list of all packages available in a simple text file is enough to get a good overview of available packages.

An example Nix snippet which provides the Salesforce migration tool inside of a shell environment based on the Nix package manager.

Thoughts on providing a nice CLI (command line interface) for Pyramid applications based on Click and the API of the Pyramid web framework.

Small SQL snippet to quickly get an overview of the row count in a PostgreSQL database.

A common need is to bring up a web server ad-hoc to serve out some files via HTTP. Most of the time I am using this trick when I want to serve a local directly quickly via HTTP without setting up anything for it.

Python has a module http.server …

A bookmark based workflow for Mercurial which aims to be similar to a branch based Git workflow.

A small shell function to get the changelog starting from a commit.

First impressions after a few months of Spacemacs.

How to migrate custom fields with the Salesforce Migration Tool avoiding failures due to unknown permissions.

Allowing to use stable and unstable branches of nixpkgs when depending on fetchgit.