I live in Norway and have a residence card, which I have to renew every two years. The process is pretty straightforwad: fill in the application online, book an appointment at the local police station, hand in the documents and get a new card one week later. Living in Oslo…
Once upon a time I decided to write some integration tests with help of VCR.py. VCR.py simplifies and speeds up tests that make HTTP requests. It records all HTTP interactions in a cassette file. When you run the same code again, it will replay all HTTP interactions from…
Getting an android phone in compact form factor with decent specs is mission impossible. My current phone is Sony Xperia X Compact, which was great at time of purchase. Especially in terms of size. One of my colleagues uses X Compact. And he has another one still packed laying in…
You think Google is evil with their ads? Russia took ads on a new level. Some internet pages are blocked in Russia. If you try to access them, you'll end up on a landing page of your internet provider. And guess what you will see on such page. Right, ads.…
Whenever someone suggests to make an input for a phone number with pre-defined number, stand up and oppose! Computers are for humans, not the other way around. Yandex Drive wants a number with 10 digits. Ok, my Norwegian number has 10 digits. Nope, it's not valid and they won't tell…
I've switched back to Windows on work recently. Turned out I am too attached to Far Manager(these days Far is even greater with ConEmu). If you are a developer on Windows and you do not know about this stuff, go check it out. It is fantastic. Scott Hanselman has…
When I was young the Internet was a big deal. It was a world without borders. One could share information with people around the globe. It is all different these days. It is more about money and as a consequence about politics. There are endless borders on the internet and…
Had to show a friend of mine who is very far away from development how to make changes in a source code of a web app. Is it only me how thinks it is a crazy workflow we have now?! For the reference. The web app is written in Python,…
Recently I visited CERN with my colleagues from Inmeta. I didn't know much about it, but it turned out that CERN has cycles in operation: it works for some years and then shuts down for 1-2 years for service and maintenance. This opens a window for visitors to come there.…
I fire up my browser and navigate to http://portal.office.com/. For those of you who do not know, this is a web version of MS Office. An entry point. The page loads, I click Outlook and after that I am greeted with this message: Well, sure, thanks for…